Ralph Fiennes
Known for Acting · 132 credits
- Born
- 1962-12-22 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- 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 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
TV Shows (22)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The View
1997
as Self - Guest
The One Show
2006
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Screen Two
1985
as John Talbot
Prime Suspect
1991
as Michael
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self - Actor
Parkinson
1998
as Self
The Directors
1999
as Self
The Frame
2013
as Lord Voldemort
Arthouse
1997
as Self
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
as Self
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Movies (110)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
as Dr Kelson
Schindler's List
1993
as Amon Goeth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Lord Voldemort
28 Years Later
2025
as Dr. Ian Kelson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as M. Gustave
No Time to Die
2021
as M
The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Rameses (voice)
Skyfall
2012
as Gareth Mallory
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Spectre
2015
as M
The Menu
2022
as Chef Slowik
Clash of the Titans
2010
as Hades
Conclave
2024
as Lawrence
The King's Man
2021
as Orlando Oxford
Dolittle
2020
as Barry (voice)
The Reader
2008
as Michael Berg
Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Hades
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
as Moon King (voice)
The Hurt Locker
2008
as Contractor Team Leader
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Lord Gray
In Bruges
2008
as Harry
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Return
2024
as Odysseus (Ulisse)
The English Patient
1996
as Almásy
Strange Days
1995
as Lenny Nero
Spider
2002
as Spider
Maid in Manhattan
2002
as Christopher Marshall
Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Laurence Laurentz
Wuthering Heights
1992
as Heathcliff
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Roald Dahl / Policeman
The Choral
2025
as Dr. Henry Guthrie
Quiz Show
1994
as Charles Van Doren
Holmes & Watson
2018
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
Official Secrets
2019
as Ben Emmerson
The Constant Gardener
2005
as Justin Quayle
Coriolanus
2011
as Caius Martius Coriolanus
Spielberg
2017
as Self
A Bigger Splash
2015
as Harry Hawkes
The Dig
2021
as Basil Brown
The Duchess
2008
as Duke of Devonshire
Great Expectations
2012
as Abel Magwitch
The Avengers
1998
as John Steed
Sunshine
1999
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
The Swan
2023
as Roald Dahl
Page Eight
2011
as Alec Beasley
The White Countess
2005
as Todd Jackson
The White Crow
2018
as Alexander Pushkin
The Forgiven
2022
as David Henninger
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
The End of the Affair
1999
as Maurice Bendrix
Poison
2023
as Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
2023
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Chumscrubber
2005
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
Cemetery Junction
2010
as Mr. Kendrick
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Bishop's Son
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
Onegin
1999
as Onegin
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Jesus (voice)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Red Dragon
2002
as Francis Dolarhyde
The Good Thief
2003
as Tony Angel (uncredited)
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
as Oscar Hopkins
Chromophobia
2006
as Stephen Tulloch
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Lambert Le Roux
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
The Invisible Woman
2013
as Charles Dickens
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as T.E. Lawrence
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Land of the Blind
2006
as Joe
Bernard and Doris
2006
as Bernard Lafferty
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Self
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
as Antony
Macbeth
2024
as Macbeth
The Wildest Dream
2010
as George Mallory (voice)
Designing Bond
2021
as Self
Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Richard III
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
as Self
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
as Marcel Proust
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Coup 53
2019
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
as Robert Moses
Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
as Self
The Cormorant
1993
as John Talbot
Four Quartets
2022
as Self
Butterflies
2016
as Self
Ten Days to D-Day
2004
as Narrator
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
as Jaques
The Beacon
Two Women
2014
as Mikhail Rakitin
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection
2024
as Victor Quartermaine
Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel
André: The Voice of Wine
2017
as Narrator
Beat the Devil
2021
as David Hare
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
as Self
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
Embers
as Henrik
Art
as Marc
About Ralph Fiennes
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 Compan… With 132 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ralph Fiennes has appeared in 110 films and 22 TV shows.
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- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) — as Dr Kelson
- Schindler's List (1993) — as Amon Goeth
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Lord Voldemort
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Lord Voldemort
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Lord Voldemort
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