Ralph Fiennes
Acting
Born: December 22, 1962 (age 63) · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Highest Rated
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 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.
Known for
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Schindler's List
1993
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Skyfall
2012
Spectre
2015
No Time to Die
2021
Clash of the Titans
2010
The Menu
2022
The Hurt Locker
2008
Photos (16)
Movies (86)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Lord Voldemort
28 Years Later
Dr. Kelson
Schindler's List
Amon Goeth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Lord Voldemort
The Grand Budapest Hotel
M. Gustave
The Prince of Egypt
Rameses (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Lord Voldemort
No Time to Die
M
Conclave
Lawrence
Spectre
M
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Dr. Kelson
Clash of the Titans
Hades
The Menu
Chef Slowik
The King's Man
Orlando Oxford
The Hurt Locker
Contractor Team Leader
Skyfall
Gareth Mallory
The English Patient
Almásy
The Return
Odysseus
The Lego Batman Movie
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Wrath of the Titans
Hades
The Choral
Dr Henry Guthrie
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
In Bruges
Harry
The Reader
Michael Berg
The Duchess
Duke of Devonshire
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Victor Quartermaine (voice)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Lord Gray
Hail, Caesar!
Laurence Laurentz
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Roald Dahl / Policeman
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moon King (voice)
Maid in Manhattan
Christopher Marshall
Dolittle
Barry (voice)
A Bigger Splash
Harry Hawkes
The White Crow
Alexander Pushkin
The Forgiven
David Henninger
The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle
Poison
Roald Dahl
Official Secrets
Ben Emmerson
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
Quiz Show
Charles Van Doren
The Rat Catcher
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
Holmes & Watson
James Moriarty
The Swan
Roald Dahl
Spider
Spider
The Good Thief
Tony Angel (uncredited)
The Avengers
John Steed
Strange Days
Lenny Nero
Coriolanus
Caius Martius Coriolanus
The Invisible Woman
Charles Dickens
The End of the Affair
Maurice Bendrix
The Dig
Basil Brown
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
The Miracle Maker
Jesus (voice)
The White Countess
Todd Jackson
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
Sunshine
Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
Red Dragon
Francis Dolarhyde
Chromophobia
Stephen Tulloch
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins
The Chumscrubber
Mayor Michael Ebbs
Cemetery Junction
Mr. Kendrick
Bernard and Doris
Bernard Lafferty
Turks & Caicos
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
The Baby of Mâcon
The Bishop's Son
Page Eight
Alec Beasley
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth
Land of the Blind
Joe
Onegin
Onegin
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Antony
Salting the Battlefield
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Lambert Le Roux
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Marcel Proust
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Jaques
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
T.E. Lawrence
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Richard III
The Cormorant
John Talbot
Two Women
Mikhail Rakitin
Ten Days to D-Day
Narrator
The Wildest Dream
George Mallory (voice)
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Robert Moses
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
Voldemort (archival footage)
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990
Beat the Devil
David Hare
André: The Voice of Wine
Narrator
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (35)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 5 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 3 eps
The One Show
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self - Actor · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
The Directors
Self · 1 eps
The Claudia Winkleman Show
Self · 1 eps
Muse of Fire
Self
Spielberg
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
Self - Lord Voldemort
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
Self
Four Quartets
Self
Coup 53
Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Self (archive footage)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Self (archive footage)
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
Self
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Self
Sea Sorrow
Self
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Self
Butterflies
Self
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Self
