Ralph Fiennes
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
125
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-12-22 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Ralph 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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
The View
The One Show
28 Years Later
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Prime Suspect
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Schindler's List
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Parkinson
The Oscars
No Time to Die
The Duchess
Skyfall
Spectre
The Choral
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
The Menu
Macbeth
The White Crow
The King's Man
Conclave
The Lego Batman Movie
Dolittle
The Prince of Egypt
The Hurt Locker
Wuthering Heights
Clash of the Titans
Poison
Two Women
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Spider
Sunshine
Butterflies
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
In Bruges
Oscar and Lucinda
Wrath of the Titans
Chromophobia
The Frame
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Hail, Caesar!
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The Reader
The Chumscrubber
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Directors
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Muse of Fire
The Return
The Constant Gardener
The English Patient
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Great Expectations
Bike Me Up
Maid in Manhattan
The Cormorant
Official Secrets
Coriolanus
A Bigger Splash
Strange Days
Arthouse
Holmes & Watson
The Dig
Quiz Show
The Avengers
The Swan
The Rat Catcher
The End of the Affair
The Forgiven
Spielberg
Farnsworth House
Red Dragon
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
The Miracle Maker
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Page Eight
The Invisible Woman
Onegin
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Salting the Battlefield
The Baby of Mâcon
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Cemetery Junction
When Harry Left Hogwarts
The White Countess
Turks & Caicos
André: The Voice of Wine
Inside the Actors Studio
The Good Thief
Land of the Blind
Bernard and Doris
Designing Bond
Four Quartets
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Coup 53
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
The Wildest Dream
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Sea Sorrow
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Beat the Devil
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Hallelujah!
The Beacon
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Ten Days to D-Day
