
Ralph Fiennes
Known for Acting · 131 credits
- Born
- 1962-12-22 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as
- Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-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.
Known For
TV Shows (21)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

The View
1997
as Self - Guest

The One Show
2006
as Self

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Prime Suspect
1991
as Michael

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self - Actor

Parkinson
1998
as Self

The Directors
1999
as Self

The Frame
2013
as Lord Voldemort
Arthouse
1997
as Self

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Wilfred Owen (voice)

The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
as Self

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Movies (110)

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
as Dr Kelson

Schindler's List
1993
as Amon Goeth

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Lord Voldemort

28 Years Later
2025
as Dr. Ian Kelson

The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Rameses (voice)

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as M. Gustave

No Time to Die
2021
as M

Skyfall
2012
as Gareth Mallory

The Lego Batman Movie
2017
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

Spectre
2015
as M

The Menu
2022
as Chef Slowik

Conclave
2024
as Lawrence

Clash of the Titans
2010
as Hades

The King's Man
2021
as Orlando Oxford

Dolittle
2020
as Barry (voice)

The Reader
2008
as Michael Berg

Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Hades

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self

The Hurt Locker
2008
as Contractor Team Leader

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Lord Gray

Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
as Moon King (voice)

In Bruges
2008
as Harry

The English Patient
1996
as Almásy

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

The Return
2024
as Odysseus (Ulisse)

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as President Coriolanus Snow

Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Laurence Laurentz

Wuthering Heights
1992
as Heathcliff

Maid in Manhattan
2002
as Christopher Marshall

The Choral
2025
as Dr. Henry Guthrie

A Bigger Splash
2015
as Harry Hawkes

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Roald Dahl / Policeman

The Constant Gardener
2005
as Justin Quayle

Strange Days
1995
as Lenny Nero

Official Secrets
2019
as Ben Emmerson

Holmes & Watson
2018
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave

Spider
2002
as Spider

Spielberg
2017
as Self

Poison
2023
as Roald Dahl

The Dig
2021
as Basil Brown

The Avengers
1998
as John Steed

Quiz Show
1994
as Charles Van Doren

The Duchess
2008
as Duke of Devonshire

The Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Bishop's Son

The Rat Catcher
2023
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl

The Forgiven
2022
as David Henninger

Coriolanus
2011
as Caius Martius Coriolanus

The Swan
2023
as Roald Dahl

Great Expectations
2012
as Abel Magwitch

The White Crow
2018
as Alexander Pushkin

Sunshine
1999
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors

Onegin
1999
as Onegin

Page Eight
2011
as Alec Beasley

The End of the Affair
1999
as Maurice Bendrix

The White Countess
2005
as Todd Jackson

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)

Oscar and Lucinda
1997
as Oscar Hopkins

Red Dragon
2002
as Francis Dolarhyde

The Miracle Maker
2000
as Jesus (voice)

Bernard and Doris
2006
as Bernard Lafferty

The Invisible Woman
2013
as Charles Dickens

Cemetery Junction
2010
as Mr. Kendrick

Turks & Caicos
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

Chromophobia
2006
as Stephen Tulloch

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Lambert Le Roux

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley

The Good Thief
2003
as Tony Angel (uncredited)

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as T.E. Lawrence

The Chumscrubber
2005
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
Designing Bond
2021
as Self

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self

Land of the Blind
2006
as Joe

The Wildest Dream
2010
as George Mallory (voice)

Macbeth
2024
as Macbeth

Coup 53
2019
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

Four Quartets
2022
as Self

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Self

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
as Antony

Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self

Butterflies
2016
as Self

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
as Robert Moses

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
as Self

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Richard III
Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Beacon

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
as Self

The Cormorant
1993
as John Talbot

How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
as Marcel Proust

Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection
2024
as Victor Quartermaine
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Two Women
2014
as Mikhail Rakitin

Ten Days to D-Day
2004
as Narrator
Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self

André: The Voice of Wine
2017
as Narrator

Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
as Jaques

Art
as Marc

Beat the Devil
2021
as David Hare
Embers
as Henrik

The Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
as Self

Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
About Ralph Fiennes
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 Compan… With 131 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ralph Fiennes has appeared in 110 films and 21 TV shows.
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- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) — as Dr Kelson
- Schindler's List (1993) — as Amon Goeth
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Lord Voldemort
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Lord Voldemort
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) — as Lord Voldemort
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