Ralph Fiennes
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 22, 1962 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
- Credits
- 136
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
2005Movie
Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Lord Voldemort
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Amon Goeth
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
M. Gustave
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
2026Movie
Self
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026TV
Self
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026Movie
Dr. Kelson
The Choral
2025Movie
Dr Henry Guthrie
28 Years Later
2025Movie
Dr. Kelson
The Return
2024Movie
Odysseus
Conclave
2024Movie
Lawrence
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2024Movie
Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024Movie
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
Poison
2023Movie
Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
2023Movie
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Swan
2023Movie
Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023Movie
Roald Dahl / Policeman
The Menu
2022Movie
Chef Slowik
Four Quartets
2022Movie
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self - Actor
The Forgiven
2022Movie
David Henninger
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022Movie
Robert Moses
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022Movie
Self
The King's Man
2021Movie
Orlando Oxford
Designing Bond
2021Movie
Self
Beat the Devil
2021Movie
David Hare
No Time to Die
2021Movie
M
The Dig
2021Movie
Basil Brown
Dolittle
2020Movie
Barry (voice)
Coup 53
2019Movie
Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
Official Secrets
2019Movie
Ben Emmerson
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019Movie
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Holmes & Watson
2018Movie
James Moriarty
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018Movie
Antony
The White Crow
2018Movie
Alexander Pushkin
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018Movie
Self
Sea Sorrow
2017Movie
Self
Spielberg
2017Movie
Self
André: The Voice of Wine
2017Movie
Narrator
The Lego Batman Movie
2017Movie
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Butterflies
2016Movie
Self
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016Movie
Moon King (voice)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016Movie
Richard III
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016Movie
Jaques
Hail, Caesar!
2016Movie
Laurence Laurentz
A Bigger Splash
2015Movie
Harry Hawkes
Spectre
2015Movie
M
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015Movie
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
Two Women
2014Movie
Mikhail Rakitin
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014Movie
Self
Salting the Battlefield
2014Movie
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Turks & Caicos
2014Movie
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
M. Gustave
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self, Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self
The Invisible Woman
2013Movie
Charles Dickens
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013Movie
Lambert Le Roux
Muse of Fire
2013Movie
Self
The Frame
2013TV
Lord Voldemort
Great Expectations
2012Movie
Abel Magwitch
Skyfall
2012Movie
Gareth Mallory
Wrath of the Titans
2012Movie
Hades
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011Movie
Self
Page Eight
2011Movie
Alec Beasley
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011Movie
Self - Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Lord Voldemort
Coriolanus
2011Movie
Caius Martius Coriolanus
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Lord Voldemort
The Wildest Dream
2010Movie
George Mallory (voice)
Cemetery Junction
2010Movie
Mr. Kendrick
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010Movie
Lord Gray
Clash of the Titans
2010Movie
Hades
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
The Reader
2008Movie
Michael Berg
The Hurt Locker
2008Movie
Contractor Team Leader
The Duchess
2008Movie
Duke of Devonshire
In Bruges
2008Movie
Harry
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
2007Movie
Voldemort (archival footage)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Lord Voldemort
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Bernard and Doris
2006Movie
Bernard Lafferty
The One Show
2006TV
Self
Chromophobia
2006Movie
Stephen Tulloch
Land of the Blind
2006Movie
Joe
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006Movie
Self
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005Movie
Lord Voldemort
The White Countess
2005Movie
Todd Jackson
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005Movie
Victor Quartermaine (voice)
The Constant Gardener
2005Movie
Justin Quayle
The Chumscrubber
2005Movie
Mayor Michael Ebbs
Ten Days to D-Day
2004Movie
Narrator
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004Movie
Self
The End of the Affair: "Making of"
2004Movie
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003Movie
Self
The Good Thief
2003Movie
Tony Angel (uncredited)
Maid in Manhattan
2002Movie
Christopher Marshall
Spider
2002Movie
Spider
Red Dragon
2002Movie
Francis Dolarhyde
The Miracle Maker
2000Movie
Jesus (voice)
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000Movie
Marcel Proust
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000Movie
Self
Onegin
1999Movie
Onegin
The End of the Affair
1999Movie
Maurice Bendrix
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999Movie
Self (archive footage)
Sunshine
1999Movie
Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
The Directors
1999TV
Self
The Prince of Egypt
1998Movie
Rameses (voice)
The Avengers
1998Movie
John Steed
Parkinson
1998TV
Self
Oscar and Lucinda
1997Movie
Oscar Hopkins
Arthouse
1997TV
Self
The View
1997TV
Self - Guest
The English Patient
1996Movie
Almásy
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996TV
Wilfred Owen (voice)
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Strange Days
1995Movie
Lenny Nero
Quiz Show
1994Movie
Charles Van Doren
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Amon Goeth
The Baby of Mâcon
1993Movie
The Bishop's Son
The Cormorant
1993Movie
John Talbot
Wuthering Heights
1992Movie
Heathcliff
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992Movie
T.E. Lawrence
Prime Suspect
1991TV
Michael
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990Movie
Screen Two
1985TV
John Talbot
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Presenter
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Embers
Movie
Henrik
Art
Movie
Marc
Farnsworth House
Movie
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hallelujah!
Movie
George Frideric Handel
Bike Me Up
Movie
Paris Segment
The Beacon
Movie