Ralph Fiennes
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
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
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The One Show
28 Years Later
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The View
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Schindler's List
Parkinson
The Hurt Locker
The Menu
Prime Suspect
No Time to Die
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Oscars
Conclave
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Skyfall
Spectre
Clash of the Titans
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
The Prince of Egypt
The Lego Batman Movie
The King's Man
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
The Constant Gardener
Wrath of the Titans
The Reader
The English Patient
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Great Expectations
Official Secrets
The Rat Catcher
Dolittle
In Bruges
Hail, Caesar!
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
The Return
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Swan
Poison
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Quiz Show
Cemetery Junction
Wuthering Heights
Hallelujah!
The Duchess
How Proust Can Change Your Life
The Frame
The Directors
Maid in Manhattan
The Avengers
Creating the World of Harry Potter
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Two Women
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Spielberg
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Strange Days
Sea Sorrow
Coriolanus
The Dig
Oscar and Lucinda
Spider
Sunshine
The Baby of Mâcon
Land of the Blind
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
The White Countess
Designing Bond
Butterflies
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Beat the Devil
The Beacon
Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
The White Crow
Red Dragon
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
The Chumscrubber
Page Eight
Salting the Battlefield
Coup 53
Holmes & Watson
The Good Thief
The End of the Affair
Bernard and Doris
The Choral
Onegin
A Bigger Splash
The Invisible Woman
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
The Miracle Maker
The Wildest Dream
Arthouse
The Forgiven
Four Quartets
Muse of Fire
Bike Me Up
Inside the Actors Studio
Chromophobia
Ten Days to D-Day
The Cormorant
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Turks & Caicos
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Farnsworth House
conclave behind the scenes
André: The Voice of Wine
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Lego Batman: The Bricks of Justice
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
Batman: The Knight Crusader
