Ralph Fiennes
Acting
🎂 1962-12-22
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes 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.
Cast credits(128)
Dr. Ian Kelson
2025
Self
1996
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
2014
Self
2006
Self - Guest
2009
Lord Voldemort
2005
Self - Presenter
1956
Lord Voldemort
2007
Lord Voldemort
2010
Lord Voldemort
2011
Self - Nominee
1944
Self
2014
Self - Guest
1997
Amon Goeth
1993
1992
Lawrence
2024
M
2021
Gareth Mallory
2012
Michael
1991
Self
1998
M. Gustave
2014
Self – Actor
2022
Self - Actor
2022
Self
1953
Orlando Oxford
2021
M
2015
Hades
2012
Hades
2010
Chef Slowik
2022
Lord Gray
2010
Duke of Devonshire
2008
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2017
Rameses (voice)
1998
Self
2022
Barry (voice)
2020
Michael Berg
2008
Almásy
1996
Dr. Ian Kelson
2026
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2019
Victor Quartermaine (voice)
2005
Odysseus (Ulisse)
2024
Contractor Team Leader
2008
Christopher Marshall
2002
Harry
2008
Moon King (voice)
2016
Roald Dahl / Policeman
2023
Lenny Nero
1995
Laurence Laurentz
2016
Justin Quayle
2005
Self - 'Lord Voldemort'
2009
Lord Voldemort
2013
Self
1999
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
2023
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
2024
President Coriolanus Snow
2026
Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
2018
Spider
2002
John Steed
1998
Heathcliff
1992
Ben Emmerson
2019
Mikhail Rakitin
2014
Self
Abel Magwitch
2012
Roald Dahl
2023
Roald Dahl
2023
Alexander Pushkin
2018
David Henninger
2022
Harry Hawkes
2015
Jesus (voice)
2000
Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
1999
Alec Beasley
2011
Maurice Bendrix
1999
Onegin
1999
John Talbot
1993
Dr. Guthrie
2025
Self
2014
Basil Brown
2021
Charles Dickens
2013
Self
2017
Bernard Lafferty
2006
Charles Van Doren
1994
Caius Martius Coriolanus
2011
Francis Dolarhyde
2002
George Mallory (voice)
2010
Mr. Kendrick
2010
Self
1997
The Bishop's Son
1993
Jaques
2016
Joe
2006
Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
2019
Macbeth
2024
Antony
2018
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
Lambert Le Roux
2013
T.E. Lawrence
1992
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
Tony Angel (uncredited)
2002
Mayor Michael Ebbs
2005
Stephen Tulloch
2006
Oscar Hopkins
1997
George Frideric Handel
Wilfred Owen (voice)
1996
Narrator
2004
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
2015
Todd Jackson
2005
Self
2003
David Hare
2021
Self
2013
Richard III
2016
Self
2011
himself
2016
Self
2004
Self
2021
Self
2006
Self
2017
Marcel Proust
2000
Himself
2018
Self
1994
Self
2022
Self (archive footage)
1999
Narrator
2017
Robert Moses
2022
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Paris Segment
Cardinal Lawrence