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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 22, 1962
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Also Known As
- Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
6.9 Popularity
Biography
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
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President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
0.0
Dr. Ian Kelson
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
6.5
Dr. Henry Guthrie
The Choral
2025
6.7
Dr. Ian Kelson
28 Years Later
2025
6.5
Odysseus (Ulisse)
The Return
2024
7.2
Lawrence
Conclave
2024
8.0
Macbeth
Macbeth
2024
7.5
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
6.9
Roald Dahl
Poison
2023
6.6
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
2023
Credits
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as President Coriolanus Snow
2026
0.0
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Dr. Ian Kelson
2026
0.0
The Choral
as Dr. Henry Guthrie
2025
6.5
28 Years Later
as Dr. Ian Kelson
2025
6.7
The Return
as Odysseus (Ulisse)
2024
6.5
Conclave
as Lawrence
2024
7.2
Macbeth
as Macbeth
2024
8.0
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
2024
7.5
Poison
as Roald Dahl
2023
6.9
The Rat Catcher
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
2023
6.6
The Swan
as Roald Dahl
2023
6.8
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Roald Dahl / Policeman
2023
7.2
The Menu
as Chef Slowik
2022
7.2
Four Quartets
as Self
2022
6.0
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self - Actor
2022
2.7
The Forgiven
as David Henninger
2022
5.7
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
as Robert Moses
2022
8.0
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self
2022
7.3
The King's Man
as Orlando Oxford
2021
6.7
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Designing Bond
as Self
2021
5.5
Beat the Devil
as David Hare
2021
6.0
No Time to Die
as M
2021
7.4
The Dig
as Basil Brown
2021
6.9
Dolittle
as Barry (voice)
2020
6.6
Coup 53
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
2019
8.0
Official Secrets
as Ben Emmerson
2019
7.2
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2019
6.7
Holmes & Watson
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
2018
4.3
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An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
2018
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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
as Antony
2018
7.2
The White Crow
as Alexander Pushkin
2018
6.6
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
as Self
2018
6.0
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017
5.3
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
André: The Voice of Wine
as Narrator
2017
6.0
The Lego Batman Movie
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2017
7.2
Butterflies
as Self
2016
3.3
Kubo and the Two Strings
as Moon King (voice)
2016
7.6
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Richard III
2016
7.7
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
as Jaques
2016
6.0
Hail, Caesar!
as Laurence Laurentz
2016
5.9
A Bigger Splash
as Harry Hawkes
2015
6.2
Spectre
as M
2015
6.6
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
2015
5.6
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Two Women
as Mikhail Rakitin
2014
6.4
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
as Self
2014
6.8
Salting the Battlefield
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
6.2
Turks & Caicos
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
6.2
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
2014
8.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The Invisible Woman
as Charles Dickens
2013
5.9
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Lambert Le Roux
2013
6.2
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
6.5
The Frame
as Lord Voldemort
2013
10.0
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
2012
6.4
Skyfall
as Gareth Mallory
2012
7.3
Wrath of the Titans
as Hades
2012
5.8
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
2011
7.0
Page Eight
as Alec Beasley
2011
6.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Lord Voldemort
2011
8.1
Coriolanus
as Caius Martius Coriolanus
2011
5.8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Lord Voldemort
2010
7.7
The Wildest Dream
as George Mallory (voice)
2010
7.0
Cemetery Junction
as Mr. Kendrick
2010
6.5
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Lord Gray
2010
6.3
Clash of the Titans
as Hades
2010
5.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The Reader
as Michael Berg
2008
7.5
The Hurt Locker
as Contractor Team Leader
2008
7.3
The Duchess
as Duke of Devonshire
2008
7.0
In Bruges
as Harry
2008
7.5
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Lord Voldemort
2007
7.7
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Bernard and Doris
as Bernard Lafferty
2006
6.0
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Chromophobia
as Stephen Tulloch
2006
5.2
Land of the Blind
as Joe
2006
5.8
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
2006
4.0
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Lord Voldemort
2005
7.8
The White Countess
as Todd Jackson
2005
6.2
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
2005
7.1
The Constant Gardener
as Justin Quayle
2005
7.0
The Chumscrubber
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
2005
6.5
Ten Days to D-Day
as Narrator
2004
4.7
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
2004
6.5
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
2003
7.3
The Good Thief
as Tony Angel (uncredited)
2003
6.1
Maid in Manhattan
as Christopher Marshall
2002
6.1
Spider
as Spider
2002
6.6
Red Dragon
as Francis Dolarhyde
2002
7.0
The Miracle Maker
as Jesus (voice)
2000
6.1
How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Marcel Proust
2000
4.7
Onegin
as Onegin
1999
6.1
The End of the Affair
as Maurice Bendrix
1999
6.6
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1999
6.6
Sunshine
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
1999
6.5
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
The Prince of Egypt
as Rameses (voice)
1998
7.3
The Avengers
as John Steed
1998
4.4
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Oscar and Lucinda
as Oscar Hopkins
1997
6.3
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Arthouse
as Self
1997
0.0
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
The English Patient
as Almásy
1996
7.2
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
1996
8.2
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Strange Days
as Lenny Nero
1995
7.0
Quiz Show
as Charles Van Doren
1994
7.3
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Schindler's List
as Amon Goeth
1993
8.6
The Baby of Mâcon
as The Bishop's Son
1993
6.9
The Cormorant
as John Talbot
1993
4.0
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1992
6.6
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as T.E. Lawrence
1992
6.4
Prime Suspect
as Michael
1991
7.7
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
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Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment
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🎬
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
N/A
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Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
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The Beacon
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Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel
N/A
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