Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Birthday: 1962-12-22

Place of birth: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Also known as: Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

imdb_id: nm0000146

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.

Played in movies:

Schindler's List

Score: 8.6

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Score: 8.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Score: 8.0

Macbeth

Score: 8.0

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

Score: 8.0

Coup 53

Score: 8.0

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Score: 7.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Score: 7.7

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

Score: 7.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Score: 7.7

Kubo and the Two Strings

Score: 7.6

Spielberg

Score: 7.6

In Bruges

Score: 7.5

The Reader

Score: 7.5

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Score: 7.4

No Time to Die

Score: 7.4

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Score: 7.3

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

Score: 7.3

The Prince of Egypt

Score: 7.3

The Hurt Locker

Score: 7.3

Quiz Show

Score: 7.3

Skyfall

Score: 7.3

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Score: 7.2

Official Secrets

Score: 7.2

Conclave

Score: 7.2

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

Score: 7.2

The Lego Batman Movie

Score: 7.2

The Menu

Score: 7.2

The English Patient

Score: 7.2

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Score: 7.1

Red Dragon

Score: 7.0

Strange Days

Score: 7.0

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Score: 7.0

The Wildest Dream

Score: 7.0

The Duchess

Score: 7.0

The Constant Gardener

Score: 7.0

The Baby of Mâcon

Score: 6.9

Poison

Score: 6.9

The Dig

Score: 6.9

The Swan

Score: 6.8

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

Score: 6.8

The King's Man

Score: 6.7

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Score: 6.7

28 Years Later

Score: 6.7

Spider

Score: 6.6

The Rat Catcher

Score: 6.6

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

Score: 6.6

The White Crow

Score: 6.6

Spectre

Score: 6.6

Wuthering Heights

Score: 6.6

The End of the Affair

Score: 6.6

Dolittle

Score: 6.6

Page Eight

Score: 6.6

The Return

Score: 6.5

The Choral

Score: 6.5

Muse of Fire

Score: 6.5

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Score: 6.5

Cemetery Junction

Score: 6.5

The Chumscrubber

Score: 6.5

Sunshine

Score: 6.5

Two Women

Score: 6.4

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

Score: 6.4

Great Expectations

Score: 6.4

Oscar and Lucinda

Score: 6.3

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Score: 6.3

Turks & Caicos

Score: 6.2

Salting the Battlefield

Score: 6.2

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Score: 6.2

The White Countess

Score: 6.2

A Bigger Splash

Score: 6.2

Maid in Manhattan

Score: 6.1

Onegin

Score: 6.1

The Miracle Maker

Score: 6.1

The Good Thief

Score: 6.1

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Score: 6.0

André: The Voice of Wine

Score: 6.0

Shakespeare Lives: The Works

Score: 6.0

Four Quartets

Score: 6.0

Bernard and Doris

Score: 6.0

Beat the Devil

Score: 6.0

Hail, Caesar!

Score: 5.9

Clash of the Titans

Score: 5.9

The Invisible Woman

Score: 5.9

Land of the Blind

Score: 5.8

Coriolanus

Score: 5.8

Wrath of the Titans

Score: 5.8

The Forgiven

Score: 5.7

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

Score: 5.6

Designing Bond

Score: 5.5

Sea Sorrow

Score: 5.3

Chromophobia

Score: 5.2

Ten Days to D-Day

Score: 4.7

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Score: 4.7

The Avengers

Score: 4.4

Holmes & Watson

Score: 4.3

The Cormorant

Score: 4.0

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

Score: 4.0

Butterflies

Score: 3.3

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

Score: 0.0

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Score: 0.0

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

Score: 0.0

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Score: 0.0

Farnsworth House

Score: 0.0

Hallelujah!

Score: 0.0

Bike Me Up

Score: 0.0

The Beacon

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Frame

Score: 10.0

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Score: 8.2

Prime Suspect

Score: 7.7

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Prisoner 951

Score: 6.7

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Directors

Score: 5.8

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Score: 5.4

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.6

The One Show

Score: 4.4

The View

Score: 4.3

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Score: 2.7

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Arthouse

Score: 0.0