Ralph Fiennes
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
The View
Self - Guest
1997
Series
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
The One Show
Self
2006
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Series
Screen Two
John Talbot
1985
Film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Lord Voldemort
2005
Series
Parkinson
Self
1998
Film
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Lord Voldemort
2007
Film
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Lord Voldemort
2011
Series
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self - Actor
2022
Film
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Lord Voldemort
2010
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Film '72
Self
1971
Film
Schindler's List
Amon Goeth
1993
Film
28 Years Later
Dr. Kelson
2025
Film
No Time to Die
M
2021
Film
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Dr. Kelson
2026
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
M. Gustave
2014
Series
Prime Suspect
Michael
1991
Film
The King's Man
Orlando Oxford
2021
Film
The Prince of Egypt
Rameses (voice)
1998
Film
The Menu
Chef Slowik
2022
Film
Clash of the Titans
Hades
2010
Film
Skyfall
Gareth Mallory
2012
Film
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
President Coriolanus Snow
2026
Film
The Lego Batman Movie
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2017
Film
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2019
Film
Wrath of the Titans
Hades
2012
Film
Conclave
Lawrence
2024
Film
Dolittle
Barry (voice)
2020
Film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moon King (voice)
2016
Film
The Hurt Locker
Contractor Team Leader
2008
Film
Spectre
M
2015
Film
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Lord Gray
2010
Film
Hail, Caesar!
Laurence Laurentz
2016
Film
In Bruges
Harry
2008
Film
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Victor Quartermaine (voice)
2005
Film
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
2022
Film
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Roald Dahl / Policeman
2023
Film
The Reader
Michael Berg
2008
Film
The English Patient
Almásy
1996
Series
The Directors
Self
1999
Film
The Return
Odysseus
2024
Film
The Duchess
Duke of Devonshire
2008
Film
Official Secrets
Ben Emmerson
2019
Series
The Frame
Lord Voldemort
2013
Film
Maid in Manhattan
Christopher Marshall
2002
Film
Strange Days
Lenny Nero
1995
Film
The Choral
Dr. Henry Guthrie
2025
Film
The Dig
Basil Brown
2021
Series
The Claudia Winkleman Show
Self
2026
Film
The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle
2005
Film
The Avengers
John Steed
1998
Film
A Bigger Splash
Harry Hawkes
2015
Film
Holmes & Watson
James Moriarty
2018
Film
Quiz Show
Charles Van Doren
1994
Film
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
1992
Film
The Forgiven
David Henninger
2022
Film
The End of the Affair
Maurice Bendrix
1999
Film
Poison
Roald Dahl
2023
Series
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Wilfred Owen (voice)
1996
Film
The White Crow
Alexander Pushkin
2018
Film
The Rat Catcher
Rat Man / Roald Dahl
2023
Film
Page Eight
Alec Beasley
2011
Arthouse
Self
1997
Film
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
2012
Film
The Swan
Roald Dahl
2023
Film
Spider
Spider
2002
Film
Cemetery Junction
Mr. Kendrick
2010
Film
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
2024
Film
Sunshine
Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
1999
Film
Chromophobia
Stephen Tulloch
2006
Film
The Chumscrubber
Mayor Michael Ebbs
2005
Film
The Miracle Maker
Jesus (voice)
2000
Film
Turks & Caicos
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
Film
The Baby of Mâcon
The Bishop's Son
1993
Film
The Good Thief
Tony Angel (uncredited)
2003
Film
The Invisible Woman
Charles Dickens
2013
Film
Land of the Blind
Joe
2006
Film
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins
1997
Film
Spielberg
Self
2017
Film
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
Film
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Macbeth
2024
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Red Dragon
Francis Dolarhyde
2002
Film
The White Countess
Todd Jackson
2005
Film
Salting the Battlefield
Prime Minister Alec Beasley
2014
Film
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
2011
Film
Coriolanus
Caius Martius Coriolanus
2011
Film
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Lambert Le Roux
2013
Film
Onegin
Onegin
1999
Film
Bernard and Doris
Bernard Lafferty
2006
Embers
Henrik
Film
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
T.E. Lawrence
1992
Film
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Self
2014
Film
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Self
2003
Film
The Cormorant
John Talbot
1993
Film
Ten Days to D-Day
Narrator
2004
Film
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
2004
Film
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Antony
2018
Film
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
Self
2000
Film
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Richard III
2016
Film
Coup 53
Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
2019
Film
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Marcel Proust
2000
Film
Two Women
Mikhail Rakitin
2014
Film
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Jack Tanner/Don Juan
2015
Film
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Robert Moses
2022
Film
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Jaques
2016
Film
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Self
2018
Film
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
2006
Film
The Wildest Dream
George Mallory (voice)
2010
Film
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
Voldemort (archival footage)
2007
Film
Art
Marc
Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Film
Butterflies
Self
2016
Film
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
Self
2026
Film
Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990
Film
André: The Voice of Wine
Narrator
2017
Film
Sea Sorrow
Self
2017
Film
Beat the Devil
David Hare
2021
Bike Me Up
Paris Segment
Film
Four Quartets
Self
2022
The Beacon
Designing Bond
Self
2021
Hallelujah!
George Frideric Handel
The End of the Affair: "Making of"
2004