Acting
Ralph Fiennes
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.
Movies with Ralph Fiennes
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
Schindler's List
1993
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
28 Years Later
2025
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
No Time to Die
2021
The Hurt Locker
2008
Skyfall
2012
Clash of the Titans
2010
Spectre
2015
The Prince of Egypt
1998
The Menu
2022
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
The King's Man
2021
Conclave
2024
The Return
2024
The Constant Gardener
2005
Wrath of the Titans
2012
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
Dolittle
2020
The Choral
2025
In Bruges
2008
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
The Reader
2008
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
The Duchess
2008
The English Patient
1996
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
Wuthering Heights
1992
Strange Days
1995
Maid in Manhattan
2002
Official Secrets
2019
Hail, Caesar!
2016
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
Poison
2023
Quiz Show
1994
Embers
A Bigger Splash
2015
The Dig
2021
Holmes & Watson
2018
Red Dragon
2002
Sunshine
1999
The Avengers
1998
The Forgiven
2022
Great Expectations
2012
Spielberg
2017
Coriolanus
2011
Chromophobia
2006
The Rat Catcher
2023
The Swan
2023
The Good Thief
2003
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
The White Crow
2018
Bernard and Doris
2006
Muse of Fire
2013
The End of the Affair
1999
The Miracle Maker
2000
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
Turks & Caicos
2014
Page Eight
2011
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
Onegin
1999
The Chumscrubber
2005
Spider
2002
The White Countess
2005
The Cormorant
1993
The Invisible Woman
2013
Cemetery Junction
2010
Art
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2024
Land of the Blind
2006
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
Farnsworth House
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Salting the Battlefield
2014
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
Designing Bond
2021
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
Two Women
2014
Bike Me Up
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
Sea Sorrow
2017
The Wildest Dream
2010
Coup 53
2019
The Beacon
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
Beat the Devil
2021
Four Quartets
2022
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
Butterflies
2016
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
André: The Voice of Wine
2017
Ten Days to D-Day
2004
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
Hallelujah!
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
2007
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
TV Shows with Ralph Fiennes
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The View
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Screen Two
1985
Tony Awards
1956
The One Show
2006
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Parkinson
1998
The Oscars
1953
Prime Suspect
1991
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Directors
1999
The Frame
2013
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Arthouse
1997
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994