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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:18/11/2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Character:Dr. Ian Kelson
Release Date:07/01/2026
The Choral
Character:Dr. Henry Guthrie
Release Date:07/11/2025
28 Years Later
Character:Dr. Ian Kelson
Release Date:18/06/2025
The Return
Character:Odysseus (Ulisse)
Release Date:28/11/2024
Conclave
Character:Lawrence
Release Date:25/10/2024
Macbeth
Character:Macbeth
Release Date:02/05/2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Character:Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
Release Date:14/03/2024
Poison
Character:Roald Dahl
Release Date:29/09/2023
The Rat Catcher
Character:Rat Man / Roald Dahl
Release Date:28/09/2023
The Swan
Character:Roald Dahl
Release Date:27/09/2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Character:Roald Dahl / Policeman
Release Date:20/09/2023
The Menu
Character:Chef Slowik
Release Date:17/11/2022
Four Quartets
Character:Self
Release Date:16/10/2022
The Forgiven
Character:David Henninger
Release Date:01/07/2022
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Character:Robert Moses
Release Date:26/05/2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2022
The King's Man
Character:Orlando Oxford
Release Date:22/12/2021
Designing Bond
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/2021
Beat the Devil
Character:David Hare
Release Date:11/11/2021
No Time to Die
Character:M
Release Date:29/09/2021
The Dig
Character:Basil Brown
Release Date:14/01/2021
Dolittle
Character:Barry (voice)
Release Date:02/01/2020
Coup 53
Character:Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
Release Date:01/09/2019
Official Secrets
Character:Ben Emmerson
Release Date:30/08/2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Character:Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Release Date:06/02/2019
Holmes & Watson
Character:Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
Release Date:25/12/2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/12/2018
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Character:Antony
Release Date:06/12/2018
The White Crow
Character:Alexander Pushkin
Release Date:31/08/2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Character:Self
Release Date:25/03/2018
Sea Sorrow
Character:Self
Release Date:08/11/2017
Spielberg
Character:Self
Release Date:05/10/2017
André: The Voice of Wine
Character:Narrator
Release Date:15/02/2017
The Lego Batman Movie
Character:Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Release Date:08/02/2017
Butterflies
Character:Self
Release Date:26/10/2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
Character:Moon King (voice)
Release Date:18/08/2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Character:Richard III
Release Date:21/07/2016
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Character:Jaques
Release Date:22/04/2016
Hail, Caesar!
Character:Laurence Laurentz
Release Date:05/02/2016
A Bigger Splash
Character:Harry Hawkes
Release Date:26/11/2015
Spectre
Character:M
Release Date:26/10/2015
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Character:Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Release Date:14/05/2015
Two Women
Character:Mikhail Rakitin
Release Date:23/11/2014
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Character:Self
Release Date:30/06/2014
Salting the Battlefield
Character:Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Release Date:27/03/2014
Turks & Caicos
Character:Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Release Date:20/03/2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character:M. Gustave
Release Date:26/02/2014
The Invisible Woman
Character:Charles Dickens
Release Date:25/12/2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Character:Lambert Le Roux
Release Date:02/11/2013
Muse of Fire
Character:Self
Release Date:26/09/2013
Great Expectations
Character:Abel Magwitch
Release Date:30/11/2012
Skyfall
Character:Gareth Mallory
Release Date:24/10/2012
Wrath of the Titans
Character:Hades
Release Date:28/03/2012
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Character:Self
Release Date:11/11/2011
Page Eight
Character:Alec Beasley
Release Date:28/08/2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character:Lord Voldemort
Release Date:12/07/2011
Coriolanus
Character:Caius Martius Coriolanus
Release Date:14/02/2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character:Lord Voldemort
Release Date:17/11/2010
The Wildest Dream
Character:George Mallory (voice)
Release Date:06/08/2010
Cemetery Junction
Character:Mr. Kendrick
Release Date:14/04/2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Character:Lord Gray
Release Date:26/03/2010
Clash of the Titans
Character:Hades
Release Date:26/03/2010
The Reader
Character:Michael Berg
Release Date:10/12/2008
The Hurt Locker
Character:Contractor Team Leader
Release Date:10/10/2008
The Duchess
Character:Duke of Devonshire
Release Date:05/09/2008
In Bruges
Character:Harry
Release Date:08/02/2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Character:Lord Voldemort
Release Date:08/07/2007
Bernard and Doris
Character:Bernard Lafferty
Release Date:01/09/2006
Chromophobia
Character:Stephen Tulloch
Release Date:10/05/2006
Land of the Blind
Character:Joe
Release Date:01/05/2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Character:Self
Release Date:10/01/2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Character:Lord Voldemort
Release Date:16/11/2005
The White Countess
Character:Todd Jackson
Release Date:30/10/2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Character:Victor Quartermaine (voice)
Release Date:15/09/2005
The Constant Gardener
Character:Justin Quayle
Release Date:31/08/2005
The Chumscrubber
Character:Mayor Michael Ebbs
Release Date:08/06/2005
Ten Days to D-Day
Character:Narrator
Release Date:02/01/2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2004
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Character:Self
Release Date:03/04/2003
The Good Thief
Character:Tony Angel (uncredited)
Release Date:02/04/2003
Maid in Manhattan
Character:Christopher Marshall
Release Date:13/12/2002
Spider
Character:Spider
Release Date:06/11/2002
Red Dragon
Character:Francis Dolarhyde
Release Date:02/10/2002
The Miracle Maker
Character:Jesus (voice)
Release Date:31/03/2000
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Character:Marcel Proust
Release Date:19/03/2000
Onegin
Character:Onegin
Release Date:22/12/1999
The End of the Affair
Character:Maurice Bendrix
Release Date:03/12/1999
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/09/1999
Sunshine
Character:Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
Release Date:13/09/1999
The Prince of Egypt
Character:Rameses (voice)
Release Date:16/12/1998
The Avengers
Character:John Steed
Release Date:13/08/1998
Oscar and Lucinda
Character:Oscar Hopkins
Release Date:31/12/1997
The English Patient
Character:Almásy
Release Date:14/11/1996
Strange Days
Character:Lenny Nero
Release Date:13/10/1995
Quiz Show
Character:Charles Van Doren
Release Date:25/08/1994
Schindler's List
Character:Amon Goeth
Release Date:15/12/1993
The Baby of Mâcon
Character:The Bishop's Son
Release Date:17/09/1993
The Cormorant
Character:John Talbot
Release Date:21/02/1993
Wuthering Heights
Character:Heathcliff
Release Date:16/10/1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Character:T.E. Lawrence
Release Date:18/04/1992
Television Appearances
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character:Self - Actor
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self
The Frame
Character:Lord Voldemort
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character:Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
The One Show
Character:Self
The Directors
Character:Self
Parkinson
Character:Self
Arthouse
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self - Guest
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Character:Wilfred Owen (voice)
The Daily Show
Character:Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Character:
Prime Suspect
Character:Michael
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Character:Self
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
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