Ralph Fiennes
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-12-22 (62 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
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The One Show
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
28 Years Later
Golden Globe Awards
The View
Tony Awards
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Schindler's List
Prime Suspect
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
No Time to Die
The King's Man
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Conclave
The Menu
Dolittle
Spectre
The Oscars
Skyfall
The Prince of Egypt
Clash of the Titans
Wrath of the Titans
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Coriolanus
The Reader
Parkinson
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
The Hurt Locker
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
The Choral
How Proust Can Change Your Life
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The Return
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Macbeth
In Bruges
Wuthering Heights
The Constant Gardener
The Dig
The Lego Batman Movie
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
The English Patient
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Quiz Show
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Maid in Manhattan
The Duchess
The Avengers
Coup 53
Great Expectations
Official Secrets
Hail, Caesar!
The Rat Catcher
Cemetery Junction
The Frame
Strange Days
Poison
Sunshine
The Baby of Mâcon
Page Eight
The Chumscrubber
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Four Quartets
Sea Sorrow
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Spider
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
The End of the Affair
Holmes & Watson
A Bigger Splash
The Miracle Maker
Land of the Blind
The Directors
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Chromophobia
The White Crow
The Good Thief
Two Women
Spielberg
The Forgiven
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
The White Countess
Salting the Battlefield
Onegin
The Wildest Dream
The Invisible Woman
Butterflies
Hallelujah!
Red Dragon
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Bernard and Doris
When Harry Left Hogwarts
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Muse of Fire
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Oscar and Lucinda
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Ten Days to D-Day
The Swan
Arthouse
Bike Me Up
Beat the Devil
The Cormorant
Turks & Caicos
Inside the Actors Studio
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Designing Bond
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
The Beacon
Farnsworth House
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
André: The Voice of Wine
