1962-12-22 ( 62 years old ) in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 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. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
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.
Movies
28 Years Later
2025-06-18
Conclave
2024-10-25
The Return
2024-09-07
Macbeth
2024-05-02
Poison
2023-09-29
The Rat Catcher
2023-09-28
The Swan
2023-09-27
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023-09-20
The Menu
2022-11-17
Four Quartets
2022-10-16
The Forgiven
2022-07-01
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022-05-26
The King's Man
2021-12-22
Designing Bond
2021-12-20
Beat the Devil
2021-11-11
No Time to Die
2021-09-29
Being James Bond
2021-08-29
The Dig
2021-01-14
Dolittle
2020-01-02
Coup 53
2019-09-01
Official Secrets
2019-08-30
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019-02-06
Holmes & Watson
2018-12-25
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018-12-06
The White Crow
2018-08-31
Sea Sorrow
2017-11-08
Spielberg
2017-10-05
André: The Voice of Wine
2017-02-15
The Lego Batman Movie
2017-02-08
Butterflies
2016-10-26
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016-08-18
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016-07-21
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016-04-22
Hail, Caesar!
2016-02-05
A Bigger Splash
2015-11-26
Spectre
2015-10-26
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015-05-14
Two Women
2014-11-23
Salting the Battlefield
2014-03-27
Turks & Caicos
2014-03-20
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014-02-26
The Invisible Woman
2013-12-25
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013-11-02
Muse of Fire
2013-09-26
Great Expectations
2012-11-30
Skyfall
2012-10-24
Wrath of the Titans
2012-03-28
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011-11-11
Page Eight
2011-08-28
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011-07-12
Coriolanus
2011-02-14
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010-11-17
The Wildest Dream
2010-08-06
Cemetery Junction
2010-04-14
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010-03-26
Clash of the Titans
2010-03-26
The Reader
2008-12-10
The Hurt Locker
2008-10-10
The Duchess
2008-09-05
In Bruges
2008-02-08
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007-07-08
Bernard and Doris
2006-09-01
Chromophobia
2006-05-10
Land of the Blind
2006-05-01
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005-11-16
The White Countess
2005-10-30
The Constant Gardener
2005-08-31
The Chumscrubber
2005-06-08
Ten Days to D-Day
2004-01-02
Maid in Manhattan
2002-12-13
Spider
2002-11-06
Red Dragon
2002-10-02
The Good Thief
2002-09-06
The Miracle Maker
2000-03-31
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000-03-19
Onegin
1999-12-22
The End of the Affair
1999-12-03
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999-09-14
Sunshine
1999-09-13
The Prince of Egypt
1998-12-16
The Avengers
1998-08-13
Oscar and Lucinda
1997-12-31
The English Patient
1996-11-14
Strange Days
1995-10-13
Quiz Show
1994-08-25
Schindler's List
1993-12-15
The Baby of Mâcon
1993-09-17
The Cormorant
1993-02-21
Wuthering Heights
1992-10-16
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992-04-18
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