Ralph Fiennes
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Ralph Fiennes

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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.

Films Featuring Ralph Fiennes

Strange Days

19957.0

The English Patient

19967.1

Schindler's List

19938.6

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

20057.1

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

20057.8

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

The Constant Gardener

20057.0

The End of the Affair

19996.6

Onegin

19996.1

The Baby of Mâcon

19936.8

The Miracle Maker

20006.1

Maid in Manhattan

20026.1

Quiz Show

19947.3

The Reader

20087.5

In Bruges

20087.5

Wuthering Heights

19926.6

The Hurt Locker

20087.3

The Duchess

20087.0

Red Dragon

20027.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

The Avengers

19984.4

Spider

20026.6

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

20064.0

The Prince of Egypt

19987.3

Beat the Devil

20216.0

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

20106.3

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

20227.3

The Chumscrubber

20056.5

Cemetery Junction

20106.5

Skyfall

20127.3

Bernard and Doris

20066.1

Chromophobia

20065.2

Oscar and Lucinda

19976.4

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

20237.3

Sunshine

19996.4

Clash of the Titans

20105.9

The White Countess

20056.2

Page Eight

20116.6

Wrath of the Titans

20125.8

The Wildest Dream

20107.0

Coriolanus

20115.8

Great Expectations

20126.4

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

20046.6

The Grand Budapest Hotel

20148.0

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

19926.3

The Invisible Woman

20135.9

The Cormorant

19934.5

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

20228.0

The Rat Catcher

20236.6

The Swan

20236.8

Poison

20236.8

The Return

20246.6

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Turks & Caicos

20146.3

Salting the Battlefield

20146.3

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

20037.8

Hail, Caesar!

20165.9

The Good Thief

20036.1

Spectre

20156.6

Land of the Blind

20065.8

Four Quartets

20226.0

Kubo and the Two Strings

20167.6

Two Women

20146.1

A Bigger Splash

20156.1

Designing Bond

Designing Bond

20215.5

The Beacon

The Beacon

When Harry Left Hogwarts

20117.2

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

20155.6

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

20247.5

The Choral

20256.6

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

20248.0

28 Years Later

20256.6

The Lego Batman Movie

20177.3

Bike Me Up

Bike Me Up

Shakespeare Lives: The Works

20166.0

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

20167.7

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

20136.2

Sea Sorrow

20175.3

Holmes & Watson

20184.3

Spielberg

20177.5

The White Crow

20186.6

André: The Voice of Wine

20176.0

No Time to Die

20217.3

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

20186.0

Official Secrets

20197.2

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

The Forgiven

20225.7

Butterflies

20163.3

The Dig

20216.8

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

20187.2

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

20196.7

The King's Man

20216.7

Farnsworth House

Farnsworth House

Dolittle

20206.6

How Proust Can Change Your Life

20005.2

Coup 53

20198.0

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

19996.6

The Menu

20227.2

Ten Days to D-Day

20045.2

Conclave

20247.2

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

2026

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

20148.0

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

20267.1

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018

Embers

Embers

Art

The Beginning of the End of the Affair

2000

Wanted: Marjory and Oliver

1990

J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life

20077.3