Ralph Fiennes

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1962-12-22 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Also Known As レイフ・ファインズ, רייף פיינס, 雷夫·范恩斯, Рейф Файнс, ریف فاینز, 랄프 파인즈

Ralph Fiennes

Biography

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born December 22, 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Quiz Show (1994), Strange Days (1995), The End of the Affair (1999), Red Dragon (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He voiced Rameses in The Prince of Egypt (1998). Fiennes is most known for his role in the major film franchise series of Harry Potter films (2005–2011), in which he played the main villain, Lord Voldemort. In the James Bond series he played Gareth Mallory / M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall. In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.

Known For

Actor

The Choral

as Dr. Guthrie

Bike Me Up

as Paris Segment

Hallelujah!

as George Frideric Handel

Farnsworth House

as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

2024
The Return

as Odysseus

2024
Conclave

as Cardinal Lawrence

2024
Macbeth

as Macbeth

2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man

2023
Poison

as Roald Dahl

2023
The Rat Catcher

as Rat Man / Roald Dahl

2023
The Swan

as Roald Dahl

2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

as Roald Dahl / Policeman

2022
The Menu

as Chef Slowik

2022
2022
The Forgiven

as David Henninger

2022
2021
The King's Man

as Orlando Oxford

2021
2021
Beat the Devil

as David Hare

2021
Being James Bond

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Dig

as Basil Brown

2020
Dolittle

as Barry (voice)

2019
Coup 53

as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

2019
Official Secrets

as Ben Emmerson

2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2018
Holmes & Watson

as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave

2018
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2018
The White Crow

as Alexander Pushkin

2017
Sea Sorrow

as Self

2017
Spielberg

as Self

2017
The Lego Batman Movie

as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2016
Butterflies

as himself

2016
Kubo and the Two Strings

as Moon King (voice)

2016
Hail, Caesar!

as Laurence Laurentz

2015
A Bigger Splash

as Harry Hawkes

2015
Spectre

as M

2015
2014
Two Women

as Mikhail Rakitin

2014
Salting the Battlefield

as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2014
Turks & Caicos

as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2014
2013
The Invisible Woman

as Charles Dickens

2013
Muse of Fire

as Self

2013
The Frame

as Lord Voldemort

2012
Great Expectations

as Abel Magwitch

2012
Skyfall

as Gareth Mallory

2012
2011
Page Eight

as Alec Beasley

2011
Coriolanus

as Caius Martius Coriolanus

2010
The Wildest Dream

as George Mallory (voice)

2010
Cemetery Junction

as Mr. Kendrick

2010
2008
The Reader

as Michael Berg

2008
The Hurt Locker

as Contractor Team Leader

2008
The Duchess

as Duke of Devonshire

2008
In Bruges

as Harry Waters

2006
Bernard and Doris

as Bernard Lafferty

2006
Chromophobia

as Stephen Tulloch

2005
The White Countess

as Todd Jackson

2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

as Victor Quartermaine (voice)

2005
The Constant Gardener

as Justin Quayle

2005
The Chumscrubber

as Mayor Michael Ebbs

2004
Ten Days to D-Day

as Narrator

2003
The Good Thief

as Tony Angel (uncredited)

2002
Maid in Manhattan

as Christopher Marshall

2002
Spider

as Spider

2002
Red Dragon

as Francis Dolarhyde / Red Dragon

2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self (archive footage)

2000
The Miracle Maker

as Jesus (voice)

2000
1999
Onegin

as Onegin

1999
The End of the Affair

as Maurice Bendrix

1999
1999
Sunshine

as Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors

1999
1998
The Prince of Egypt

as Rameses (voice)

1998
The Avengers

as John Steed

1997
Oscar and Lucinda

as Oscar Hopkins

1997
Arthouse

as Self

1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1996
The English Patient

as Count László de Almásy

1996
1995
Strange Days

as Lenny Nero

1994
Quiz Show

as Charles Van Doren

1993
Schindler's List

as Amon Goeth

1993
The Baby of Mâcon

as The Bishop's Son

1993
The Cormorant

as John Talbot

1992
Wuthering Heights

as Heathcliff

1991
Prime Suspect

as Michael

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

2024
Conclave

as Executive Producer

2022
Four Quartets

as Producer

2021
The King's Man

as Executive Producer

2018
The White Crow

as Producer

2011
Coriolanus

as Producer

1999
Onegin

as Executive Producer

Director

The Beacon

as Director

2018
The White Crow

as Director

2013
2011
Coriolanus

as Director

Crew

2019
Coup 53

as Thanks

Writer

The Beacon

as Writer