Ralph Fiennes
Acting
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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 Brontë'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 (2005–2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films (2012–2021); 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.
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
The Choral
2025
28 Years Later
2025
The Return
2024
Conclave
2024
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Poison
2023
The Rat Catcher
2023
The Swan
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
The Menu
2022
Four Quartets
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Forgiven
2022
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
The King's Man
2021
Designing Bond
2021
Beat the Devil
2021
No Time to Die
2021
The Dig
2021
Dolittle
2020
Coup 53
2019
Official Secrets
2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
Holmes & Watson
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
The White Crow
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
Sea Sorrow
2017
Spielberg
2017
André: The Voice of Wine
2017
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
Butterflies
2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
Hail, Caesar!
2016
A Bigger Splash
2015
Spectre
2015
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Two Women
2014
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
Salting the Battlefield
2014
Turks & Caicos
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Invisible Woman
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
Muse of Fire
2013
The Frame
2013
Great Expectations
2012
Skyfall
2012
Wrath of the Titans
2012
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Page Eight
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Coriolanus
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
The Wildest Dream
2010
Cemetery Junction
2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
Clash of the Titans
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Reader
2008
The Hurt Locker
2008
The Duchess
2008
In Bruges
2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Bernard and Doris
2006
The One Show
2006
Chromophobia
2006
Land of the Blind
2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
The White Countess
2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
The Constant Gardener
2005
The Chumscrubber
2005
Ten Days to D-Day
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
The Good Thief
2003
Maid in Manhattan
2002
Spider
2002
Red Dragon
2002
The Miracle Maker
2000
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
Onegin
1999
The End of the Affair
1999
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
Sunshine
1999
The Directors
1999
The Prince of Egypt
1998
The Avengers
1998
Parkinson
1998
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
Arthouse
1997
The View
1997
The English Patient
1996
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Strange Days
1995
Quiz Show
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Schindler's List
1993
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
The Cormorant
1993
Wuthering Heights
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
Prime Suspect
1991
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990
Screen Two
1985
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Beacon
Bike Me Up
Hallelujah!
Farnsworth House
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Embers
Art