
Cast
Ralph Fiennes
Acting
Cast
Ralph Fiennes
Known for
Acting
Born
1962-12-22
From
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Also known as Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Biography
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Fiennes was trained at and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before succeeding at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1995, Fiennes made his Broadway debut playing Prince Hamlet in the revival of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He was later Tony-nominated for his role as a travelling faith healer in the Brian Friel play Faith Healer (2006). Fiennes made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily BrontĂ«'s Wuthering Heights (1992). He has earned three Academy Award nominations for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996), and Conclave (2024). He has also acted in Quiz Show (1994), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Duchess (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and The Menu (2022). Fiennes gained wider recognition for playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series (2005â2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films (2012â2021); and has voiced roles in the animated films The Prince of Egypt (1998), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). He directed and starred in the films Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013). Aside from acting, Fiennes has been an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 1999.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Dr Kelson

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Lord Voldemort

Schindler's List
as Amon Goeth

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Lord Voldemort

28 Years Later
as Dr. Ian Kelson

No Time to Die
as M

Spectre
as M

The Menu
as Chef Slowik

Skyfall
as Gareth Mallory

Conclave
as Lawrence

The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave

The Prince of Egypt
as Rameses (voice)

The Lego Batman Movie
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

Clash of the Titans
as Hades

The King's Man
as Orlando Oxford

Dolittle
as Barry (voice)

The Reader
as Michael Berg

Wrath of the Titans
as Hades

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Lord Gray

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self

The Hurt Locker
as Contractor Team Leader

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as President Coriolanus Snow

In Bruges
as Harry

The English Patient
as AlmĂĄsy

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

Hail, Caesar!
as Laurence Laurentz

Kubo and the Two Strings
as Moon King (voice)

The Return
as Odysseus (Ulisse)

Quiz Show
as Charles Van Doren

Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff

The Choral
as Dr. Henry Guthrie

The Constant Gardener
as Justin Quayle

Strange Days
as Lenny Nero

Spider
as Spider

Maid in Manhattan
as Christopher Marshall

The Duchess
as Duke of Devonshire

Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch

Coriolanus
as Caius Martius Coriolanus

Official Secrets
as Ben Emmerson

Holmes & Watson
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave

Sunshine
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Roald Dahl / Policeman

The Forgiven
as David Henninger

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)

A Bigger Splash
as Harry Hawkes

Spielberg
as Self

Page Eight
as Alec Beasley

Cemetery Junction
as Mr. Kendrick

The Dig
as Basil Brown

Chromophobia
as Stephen Tulloch

The Avengers
as John Steed

The End of the Affair
as Maurice Bendrix

The Rat Catcher
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl

Salting the Battlefield
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

Poison
as Roald Dahl

The White Countess
as Todd Jackson

The White Crow
as Alexander Pushkin

The Invisible Woman
as Charles Dickens

Oscar and Lucinda
as Oscar Hopkins

Onegin
as Onegin

The Miracle Maker
as Jesus (voice)

Turks & Caicos
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

The Good Thief
as Tony Angel (uncredited)

Red Dragon
as Francis Dolarhyde

The Swan
as Roald Dahl

Muse of Fire
as Self

The Chumscrubber
as Mayor Michael Ebbs

Bernard and Doris
as Bernard Lafferty

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Richard III

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Lambert Le Roux

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)

Land of the Blind
as Joe

When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self

Sea Sorrow
as Self

The Baby of MĂącon
as The Bishop's Son

An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self

Designing Bond
as Self

The Wildest Dream
as George Mallory (voice)

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as T.E. Lawrence

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
as Self

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
as Robert Moses

Two Women
as Mikhail Rakitin

Coup 53
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

The Cormorant
as John Talbot

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self

Macbeth
as Macbeth

Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment

How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Marcel Proust

Four Quartets
as Self

Butterflies
as Self

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
as Antony

Embers
as Henrik

Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel

Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Beat the Devil
as David Hare

Shakespeare Lives: The Works
as Jaques

Ten Days to D-Day
as Narrator

Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection
as Victor Quartermaine

The Beacon

André: The Voice of Wine
as Narrator

The Beginning of the End of the Affair
as Self

Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self

Art
as Marc

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
as Self
