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 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.
131 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 131
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
The One Show
2006
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Schindler's List
1993
Tony Awards
1956
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
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
The Oscars
1953
28 Years Later
2025
Prime Suspect
1991
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
The Prince of Egypt
1998
No Time to Die
2021
Parkinson
1998
Skyfall
2012
Spectre
2015
The Menu
2022
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
Conclave
2024
The King's Man
2021
Clash of the Titans
2010
Dolittle
2020
The Directors
1999
Wrath of the Titans
2012
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
The Frame
2013
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
The Reader
2008
The Hurt Locker
2008
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
The Return
2024
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
The English Patient
1996
In Bruges
2008
Hail, Caesar!
2016
Arthouse
1997
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Wuthering Heights
1992
Holmes & Watson
2018
Maid in Manhattan
2002
Strange Days
1995
The Choral
2025
Spider
2002
A Bigger Splash
2015
The Constant Gardener
2005
The Avengers
1998
Official Secrets
2019
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
Spielberg
2017
The Duchess
2008
Quiz Show
1994
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
The Rat Catcher
2023
The Dig
2021
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
The Forgiven
2022
Poison
2023
Great Expectations
2012
The Swan
2023
Onegin
1999
Sunshine
1999
The White Countess
2005
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
The White Crow
2018
Coriolanus
2011
Salting the Battlefield
2014
Page Eight
2011
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
The End of the Affair
1999
Cemetery Junction
2010
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
The Invisible Woman
2013
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
Turks & Caicos
2014
The Good Thief
2003
Red Dragon
2002
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
The Miracle Maker
2000
Chromophobia
2006
Bernard and Doris
2006
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
The Chumscrubber
2005
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
Muse of Fire
2013
Designing Bond
2021
Four Quartets
2022
The Wildest Dream
2010
Macbeth
2024
Land of the Blind
2006
Sea Sorrow
2017
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
Coup 53
2019
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
Butterflies
2016
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
Two Women
2014
Hallelujah!
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An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
Bike Me Up
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Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection
2024
Ten Days to D-Day
2004
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
The Beacon
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The Cormorant
1993
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
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Farnsworth House
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Embers
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André: The Voice of Wine
2017
Art
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Beat the Devil
2021
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
