Ralph Fiennes
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.
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Filmography of
Ralph Fiennes
President Coriolanus Snow
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Dr. Ian Kelson
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Dr. Guthrie
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Alfred Pennyworth (Voice)
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Dr. Ian Kelson
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Odysseus (Ulisse)
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Lawrence
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Alfred Pennyworth (Voice)
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Macbeth
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Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
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Roald Dahl
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Rat Man / Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl / Policeman
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Chef Slowik
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Self
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David Henninger
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Robert Moses
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Orlando Oxford
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Self
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David Hare
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Basil Brown
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Barry (voice)
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Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
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Ben Emmerson
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Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
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Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
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Self (archive footage)
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Alexander Pushkin
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Self
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Self
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Narrator
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Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
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himself
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Moon King (voice)
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Richard III
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Jaques
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Laurence Laurentz
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Harry Hawkes
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M
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Jack Tanner/Don Juan
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Mikhail Rakitin
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Prime Minister Alec Beasley
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Prime Minister Alec Beasley
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M. Gustave
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Charles Dickens
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Lambert Le Roux
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Self
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Abel Magwitch
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Gareth Mallory
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Hades
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Alec Beasley
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Lord Voldemort
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Caius Martius Coriolanus
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Lord Voldemort
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George Mallory (voice)
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Mr. Kendrick
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Lord Gray
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Hades
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Michael Berg
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Contractor Team Leader
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Duke of Devonshire
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Harry
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Lord Voldemort
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Bernard Lafferty
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Stephen Tulloch
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Lord Voldemort
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Todd Jackson
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Victor Quartermaine (voice)
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Justin Quayle
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Mayor Michael Ebbs
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Narrator
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Christopher Marshall
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Spider
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Francis Dolarhyde
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Tony Angel (uncredited)
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Jesus (voice)
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Marcel Proust
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Onegin
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Maurice Bendrix
... 1999
Self (archive footage)
... 1999
Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
... 1999
Rameses (voice)
... 1998
John Steed
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Oscar Hopkins
... 1997
Almásy
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Lenny Nero
... 1995
Charles Van Doren
... 1994
Amon Goeth
... 1993
The Bishop's Son
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John Talbot
... 1993
Heathcliff
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T.E. Lawrence
... 1992
Paris Segment
George Frideric Handel
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Cardinal Lawrence
