Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

22 Dec 1962 (61 years old) in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born December 22, 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Quiz Show (1994), Strange Days (1995), The End of the Affair (1999), Red Dragon (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He voiced Rameses in The Prince of Egypt (1998). Fiennes is most known for his role in the major film franchise series of Harry Potter films (2005–2011), in which he played the main villain, Lord Voldemort. In the James Bond series he played Gareth Mallory / M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall. In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.

Known For

Credits

  • 2025 · 28 Years Later as
  • 2024 · Conclave as Lawrence
  • 2024 · The Return as Odysseus
  • 2024 · Macbeth as Macbeth
  • 2024 · The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man
  • 2023 · Poison as Roald Dahl
  • 2023 · The Rat Catcher as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
  • 2023 · The Swan as Roald Dahl
  • 2023 · The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as Roald Dahl / Policeman
  • 2022 · The Menu as Chef Slowik
  • 2022 · Four Quartets as Self
  • 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
  • 2022 · The Forgiven as David Henninger
  • 2022 · National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy as Robert Moses
  • 2022 · Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy as Himself
  • 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
  • 2021 · The King's Man as Orlando Oxford
  • 2021 · Designing Bond as Self
  • 2021 · Beat the Devil as David Hare
  • 2021 · No Time to Die as M
  • 2021 · Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
  • 2021 · The Dig as Basil Brown
  • 2020 · Dolittle as Barry (voice)
  • 2019 · Coup 53 as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
  • 2019 · Official Secrets as Ben Emmerson
  • 2019 · The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
  • 2018 · Holmes & Watson as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
  • 2018 · Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
  • 2018 · National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra as Antony
  • 2018 · The White Crow as Alexander Pushkin
  • 2018 · My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw as Himself
  • 2017 · Sea Sorrow as Self
  • 2017 · Spielberg as Self
  • 2017 · André: The Voice of Wine as Narrator
  • 2017 · The Lego Batman Movie as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
  • 2016 · Butterflies as himself
  • 2016 · Kubo and the Two Strings as Moon King (voice)
  • 2016 · Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III as Richard III
  • 2016 · Shakespeare Lives: The Works as Jaques
  • 2016 · Hail, Caesar! as Laurence Laurentz
  • 2015 · A Bigger Splash as Harry Hawkes
  • 2015 · Spectre as M
  • 2015 · National Theatre Live: Man and Superman as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
  • 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
  • 2014 · Two Women as Mikhail Rakitin
  • 2014 · Salting the Battlefield as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
  • 2014 · Turks & Caicos as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
  • 2014 · The Grand Budapest Hotel as M. Gustave
  • 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
  • 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
  • 2013 · The Invisible Woman as Charles Dickens
  • 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Lambert Le Roux
  • 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
  • 2013 · The Frame as Lord Voldemort
  • 2012 · Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
  • 2012 · Skyfall as Gareth Mallory
  • 2012 · Wrath of the Titans as Hades
  • 2011 · When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
  • 2011 · Page Eight as Alec Beasley
  • 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Lord Voldemort
  • 2011 · Coriolanus as Caius Martius Coriolanus
  • 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Lord Voldemort
  • 2010 · The Wildest Dream as George Mallory (voice)
  • 2010 · Cemetery Junction as Mr. Kendrick
  • 2010 · Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Lord Gray
  • 2010 · Clash of the Titans as Hades
  • 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
  • 2008 · The Reader as Michael Berg
  • 2008 · The Hurt Locker as Contractor Team Leader
  • 2008 · The Duchess as Duke of Devonshire
  • 2008 · In Bruges as Harry Waters
  • 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Lord Voldemort
  • 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
  • 2006 · Bernard and Doris as Bernard Lafferty
  • 2006 · Chromophobia as Stephen Tulloch
  • 2006 · Land of the Blind as Joe
  • 2006 · Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
  • 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Lord Voldemort
  • 2005 · The White Countess as Todd Jackson
  • 2005 · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
  • 2005 · The Constant Gardener as Justin Quayle
  • 2005 · The Chumscrubber as Mayor Michael Ebbs
  • 2004 · Ten Days to D-Day as Narrator
  • 2004 · Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust as Self
  • 2003 · A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Himself
  • 2003 · The Good Thief as Tony Angel (uncredited)
  • 2002 · Maid in Manhattan as Christopher Marshall
  • 2002 · Spider as Spider
  • 2002 · Red Dragon as Francis Dolarhyde / Red Dragon
  • 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self (archive footage)
  • 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Jesus (voice)
  • 2000 · How Proust Can Change Your Life as Marcel Proust
  • 1999 · Onegin as Onegin
  • 1999 · The End of the Affair as Maurice Bendrix
  • 1999 · The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
  • 1999 · Sunshine as Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors
  • 1999 · The Directors as Self
  • 1998 · The Prince of Egypt as Rameses (voice)
  • 1998 · The Avengers as John Steed
  • 1997 · Oscar and Lucinda as Oscar Hopkins
  • 1997 · Arthouse as Self
  • 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
  • 1996 · The English Patient as Count László de Almásy
  • 1996 · The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Wilfred Owen (voice)
  • 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
  • 1995 · Strange Days as Lenny Nero
  • 1994 · Quiz Show as Charles Van Doren
  • 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
  • 1993 · Schindler's List as Amon Goeth
  • 1993 · The Baby of Mâcon as The Bishop's Son
  • 1993 · The Cormorant as John Talbot
  • 1992 · Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
  • 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
  • 1992 · A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as T.E. Lawrence
  • 1991 · Prime Suspect as Michael
  • 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
  • 1953 · The Oscars as Self
  • 2024 · The Beacon as
  • 2024 · The Choral as Dr. Guthrie
  • 2024 · Bike Me Up as Paris Segment
  • 2024 · Hallelujah! as George Frideric Handel
  • 2024 · Farnsworth House as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • 2024 · Brideshead Revisited as