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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 Awa…
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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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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as President Coriolanus Snow
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
as Self
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Dr. Kelson
The Choral
as Dr Henry Guthrie
28 Years Later
as Dr. Kelson
The Return
as Odysseus
Conclave
as Lawrence
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
Poison
as Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Swan
as Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Roald Dahl / Policeman
The Menu
as Chef Slowik
Four Quartets
as Self
The Forgiven
as David Henninger
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
as Robert Moses
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self
The King's Man
as Orlando Oxford
No Poster
Designing Bond
as Self
Beat the Devil
as David Hare
No Time to Die
as M
The Dig
as Basil Brown
Dolittle
as Barry (voice)
Coup 53
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
Official Secrets
as Ben Emmerson
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Holmes & Watson
as James Moriarty
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
as Antony
The White Crow
as Alexander Pushkin
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
as Self
Sea Sorrow
as Self
Spielberg
as Self
André: The Voice of Wine
as Narrator
The Lego Batman Movie
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Butterflies
as Self
Kubo and the Two Strings
as Moon King (voice)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Richard III
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
as Jaques
Hail, Caesar!
as Laurence Laurentz
A Bigger Splash
as Harry Hawkes
Spectre
as M
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Two Women
as Mikhail Rakitin
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
as Self
Salting the Battlefield
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Turks & Caicos
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
The Invisible Woman
as Charles Dickens
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Lambert Le Roux
Muse of Fire
as Self
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
Skyfall
as Gareth Mallory
Wrath of the Titans
as Hades
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
Page Eight
as Alec Beasley
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
as Self - Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Lord Voldemort
Coriolanus
as Caius Martius Coriolanus
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Lord Voldemort
The Wildest Dream
as George Mallory (voice)
Cemetery Junction
as Mr. Kendrick
Clash of the Titans
as Hades
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Lord Gray
The Reader
as Michael Berg
The Hurt Locker
as Contractor Team Leader
The Duchess
as Duke of Devonshire
In Bruges
as Harry
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
as Voldemort (archival footage)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Lord Voldemort
Bernard and Doris
as Bernard Lafferty
Chromophobia
as Stephen Tulloch
Land of the Blind
as Joe
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Lord Voldemort
The White Countess
as Todd Jackson
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
The Constant Gardener
as Justin Quayle
The Chumscrubber
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
Ten Days to D-Day
as Narrator
No Poster
The End of the Affair: "Making of"
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
The Good Thief
as Tony Angel (uncredited)
Maid in Manhattan
as Christopher Marshall
Spider
as Spider
Red Dragon
as Francis Dolarhyde
The Miracle Maker
as Jesus (voice)
How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Marcel Proust
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
as Self
Onegin
as Onegin
The End of the Affair
as Maurice Bendrix
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Sunshine
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
The Prince of Egypt
as Rameses (voice)
The Avengers
as John Steed
Oscar and Lucinda
as Oscar Hopkins
The English Patient
as Almásy
Strange Days
as Lenny Nero
Quiz Show
as Charles Van Doren
Schindler's List
as Amon Goeth
The Baby of Mâcon
as The Bishop's Son
The Cormorant
as John Talbot
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as T.E. Lawrence
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
No Poster
Unbeaten
as Henry Cecil
Art
as Marc
No Poster
Embers
as Henrik
No Poster
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
No Poster
Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment
No Poster
The Beacon
No Poster
Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel