1962-12-22 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.
28 Years Later | 2025-06-18 | ||
The Return | Odysseus | 2024-12-06 | |
Conclave | Cardinal Lawrence | 2024-10-31 | |
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man | 2024-03-14 | |
Macbeth | Macbeth | 2024-05-02 | |
Lego Batman: The Bricks of Justice | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2024-08-10 | |
The Rat Catcher | Rat Man / Roald Dahl | 2023-09-28 | |
The Swan | Roald Dahl | 2023-09-27 | |
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Roald Dahl / Policeman | 2023-09-20 | |
Poison | Roald Dahl | 2023-09-29 | |
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy | Robert Moses | 2022-05-26 | |
Four Quartets | Self | 2022-10-16 | |
Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy | Himself | 2022-05-23 | |
The Forgiven | David Henninger | 2022-07-01 | |
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 | |
The Menu | Chef Slowik | 2022-11-17 | |
Beat the Devil | David Hare | 2021-11-11 | |
Designing Bond | Self | 2021-12-20 | |
No Time to Die | M | 2021-09-29 | |
Being James Bond | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-29 | |
The King's Man | Orlando Oxford | 2021-12-22 | |
The Dig | Basil Brown | 2021-01-14 | |
Dolittle | Barry (voice) | 2020-01-02 | |
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2019-02-06 | |
Official Secrets | Ben Emmerson | 2019-08-30 | |
Coup 53 | Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire | 2019-09-01 | |
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2018-12-10 | |
Holmes & Watson | Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave | 2018-12-25 | |
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Himself | 2018-03-25 | |
The White Crow | Alexander Pushkin | 2018-08-31 | |
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra | Antony | 2018-12-06 | |
André: The Voice of Wine | Narrator | 2017-02-15 | |
Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 | |
Sea Sorrow | Self | 2017-11-08 | |
The Lego Batman Movie | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2017-02-08 | |
Kubo and the Two Strings | Moon King (voice) | 2016-08-18 | |
Hail, Caesar! | Laurence Laurentz | 2016-02-05 | |
Shakespeare Lives: The Works | Jaques | 2016-04-22 | |
Бабочки | himself | 2016-10-26 | |
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Richard III | 2016-07-21 | |
Spectre | M | 2015-10-26 | |
A Bigger Splash | Harry Hawkes | 2015-11-26 | |
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman | Jack Tanner/Don Juan | 2015-05-14 | |
Две женщины | Mikhail Rakitin | 2014-11-23 | |
Salting the Battlefield | Prime Minister Alec Beasley | 2014-03-27 | |
Turks & Caicos | Prime Minister Alec Beasley | 2014-03-20 | |
The Grand Budapest Hotel | M. Gustave | 2014-02-26 | |
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Lambert Le Roux | 2013-11-02 | |
The Invisible Woman | Charles Dickens | 2013-12-25 | |
Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 | |
Wrath of the Titans | Hades | 2012-03-28 | |
Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 2012-11-30 | |
Skyfall | Gareth Mallory | 2012-10-24 | |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Lord Voldemort | 2011-07-12 | |
Coriolanus | Caius Martius Coriolanus | 2011-02-14 | |
Page Eight | Alec Beasley | 2011-08-28 | |
When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | 2011-11-11 | |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Lord Voldemort | 2010-11-17 | |
Cemetery Junction | Mr. Kendrick | 2010-04-14 | |
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Lord Gray | 2010-03-26 | |
The Wildest Dream | George Mallory (voice) | 2010-08-06 | |
Clash of the Titans | Hades | 2010-03-26 | |
The Duchess | Duke of Devonshire | 2008-09-05 | |
The Hurt Locker | Contractor Team Leader | 2008-10-10 | |
In Bruges | Harry Waters | 2008-02-08 | |
The Reader | Michael Berg | 2008-12-10 | |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Lord Voldemort | 2007-07-08 | |
Chromophobia | Stephen Tulloch | 2006-05-10 | |
Land of the Blind | Joe | 2006-05-01 | |
Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty | 2006-09-01 | |
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 | |
The Chumscrubber | Mayor Michael Ebbs | 2005-06-08 | |
The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle | 2005-08-31 | |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Lord Voldemort | 2005-11-16 | |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Victor Quartermaine (voice) | 2005-09-04 | |
The White Countess | Todd Jackson | 2005-10-30 | |
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | 2004-01-01 | |
Ten Days to D-Day | Narrator | 2004-01-02 | |
The Good Thief | Tony Angel (uncredited) | 2003-04-02 | |
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Himself | 2003-04-03 | |
Red Dragon | Francis Dolarhyde / Red Dragon | 2002-10-02 | |
The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self (archive footage) | 2002-06-18 | |
Spider | Spider | 2002-11-06 | |
Maid in Manhattan | Christopher Marshall | 2002-12-13 | |
The Miracle Maker | Jesus (voice) | 2000-03-31 | |
How Proust Can Change Your Life | Marcel Proust | 2000-03-19 | |
Sunshine | Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors | 1999-09-13 | |
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen | Self (archive footage) | 1999-09-14 | |
The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrix | 1999-12-03 | |
Onegin | Onegin | 1999-12-22 | |
The Prince of Egypt | Rameses (voice) | 1998-12-16 | |
The Avengers | John Steed | 1998-08-13 | |
Oscar and Lucinda | Oscar Hopkins | 1997-12-31 | |
The English Patient | Count László de Almásy | 1996-11-14 | |
Strange Days | Lenny Nero | 1995-10-13 | |
Quiz Show | Charles Van Doren | 1994-08-25 | |
The Cormorant | John Talbot | 1993-02-21 | |
The Baby of Mâcon | The Bishop's Son | 1993-09-17 | |
Schindler's List | Amon Goeth | 1993-12-15 | |
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | T.E. Lawrence | 1992-04-18 | |
Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 1992-10-16 | |
The Choral | Dr. Guthrie | ||
The Beacon | |||
Bike Me Up | Paris Segment | ||
Hallelujah! | George Frideric Handel | ||
Farnsworth House | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |