Ralph Fiennes 1962 62
Ralph Fiennes 1962 62
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.
3.24
Popularity104
Credits6.8
Rating72.8M
Budget284M
RevenueActing
Primarily104 Credits
View all credits
Credit 104
2026 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple as Dr. Ian Kelson
2025 28 Years Later as Dr. Ian Kelson
2025 The Choral as Dr. Guthrie
2025 The Beacon Writer, Director
2025 Farnsworth House as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
2025 conclave behind the scenes as Cardinal Lawrence
2025 Hallelujah! as George Frideric Handel
2025 Bike Me Up as Paris Segment
2024 Conclave as Lawrence Executive Producer
2024 The Return as Odysseus Executive Producer
2024 Macbeth as Macbeth
2024 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
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 Four Quartets as Self Producer
2022 The Forgiven as David Henninger
2022 National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy as Robert Moses
2022 Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
2021 The King's Man as Orlando Oxford Executive Producer
2021 Designing Bond as Self
2021 Beat the Devil as David Hare
2021 No Time to Die as M
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 Thanks
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 National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra as Antony
2018 The White Crow as Alexander Pushkin Director, Producer
2018 My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw as Himself
2017 Sea Sorrow as Self
2017 Spielberg as Self
2017 André: The Voice of Wine as Narrator
2017 The Lego Batman Movie as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2016 Butterflies as himself
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings as Moon King (voice)
2016 Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III as Richard III
2016 Shakespeare Lives: The Works as Jaques
2016 Hail, Caesar! as Laurence Laurentz
2015 A Bigger Splash as Harry Hawkes
2015 Spectre as M
2015 National Theatre Live: Man and Superman as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
2014 Two Women as Mikhail Rakitin
2014 Salting the Battlefield as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014 Turks & Caicos as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as M. Gustave
2013 The Invisible Woman as Charles Dickens Director
2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Lambert Le Roux
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2012 Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
2012 Skyfall as Gareth Mallory
2012 Wrath of the Titans as Hades
2011 When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
2011 Page Eight as Alec Beasley
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Lord Voldemort
2011 Coriolanus as Caius Martius Coriolanus Director, Producer
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Lord Voldemort
2010 The Wildest Dream as George Mallory (voice)
2010 Cemetery Junction as Mr. Kendrick
2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Lord Gray
2010 Clash of the Titans as Hades
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
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Lord Voldemort
2006 Bernard and Doris as Bernard Lafferty
2006 Chromophobia as Stephen Tulloch
2006 Land of the Blind as Joe
2006 Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Lord Voldemort
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
2004 Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust as Self
2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Himself
2002 Maid in Manhattan as Christopher Marshall
2002 Spider as Spider
2002 Red Dragon as Francis Dolarhyde
2002 The Good Thief as Tony Angel (uncredited)
2000 The Miracle Maker as Jesus (voice)
2000 How Proust Can Change Your Life as Marcel Proust
1999 Onegin as Onegin Executive Producer
1999 The End of the Affair as Maurice Bendrix
1999 The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
1999 Sunshine as Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors
1998 The Prince of Egypt as Rameses (voice)
1998 The Avengers as John Steed
1997 Oscar and Lucinda as Oscar Hopkins
1996 The English Patient as Count László de Almásy
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
1992 A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as T.E. Lawrence