Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born December 22, 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.
Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Quiz Show (1994), Strange Days (1995), The End of the Affair (1999), Red Dragon (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He voiced Rameses in The Prince of Egypt (1998).
Fiennes is most known for his role in the major film franchise series of Harry Potter films (2005–2011), in which he played the main villain, Lord Voldemort. In the James Bond series he played Gareth Mallory / M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall.
In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.
Acted in
28 Years Later
2025
The Return
2024
as Odysseus
Conclave
2024
as Thomas Lawrence
Macbeth
2024
as Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man
Poison
2023
as Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
2023
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Swan
2023
as Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Roald Dahl / Policeman
The Menu
2022
as Chef Slowik
Four Quartets
2022
as Self
The Forgiven
2022
as David Henninger
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
as Robert Moses
Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy
2022
as Himself
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
The King's Man
2021
as Orlando Oxford
Designing Bond
2021
as Self
Beat the Devil
2021
as David Hare
No Time to Die
2021
as M
Being James Bond
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Dig
2021
as Basil Brown
Dolittle
2020
as Barry (voice)
Coup 53
2019
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
Official Secrets
2019
as Ben Emmerson
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Holmes & Watson
2018
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
as Antony
The White Crow
2018
as Alexander Pushkin
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
as Himself
Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self
Spielberg
2017
as Self
André: The Voice of Wine
2017
as Narrator
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Butterflies
2016
as himself
Kubo and the Two Strings
2016
as Moon King (voice)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Richard III
Shakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
as Jaques
Hail, Caesar!
2016
as Laurence Laurentz
A Bigger Splash
2015
as Harry Hawkes
Spectre
2015
as M
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
Two Women
2014
as Mikhail Rakitin
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as M. Gustave
The Invisible Woman
2013
as Charles Dickens
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Lambert Le Roux
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Great Expectations
2012
as Abel Magwitch
Skyfall
2012
as Gareth Mallory
Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Hades
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
Page Eight
2011
as Alec Beasley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Lord Voldemort
Coriolanus
2011
as Caius Martius Coriolanus
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Lord Voldemort
The Wildest Dream
2010
as George Mallory (voice)
Cemetery Junction
2010
as Mr. Kendrick
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Lord Gray
Clash of the Titans
2010
as Hades
The Reader
2008
as Michael Berg
The Hurt Locker
2008
as Contractor Team Leader
The Duchess
2008
as Duke of Devonshire
In Bruges
2008
as Harry Waters
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Lord Voldemort
Bernard and Doris
2006
as Bernard Lafferty
Chromophobia
2006
as Stephen Tulloch
Land of the Blind
2006
as Joe
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Lord Voldemort
The White Countess
2005
as Todd Jackson
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
The Constant Gardener
2005
as Justin Quayle
The Chumscrubber
2005
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
Ten Days to D-Day
2004
as Narrator
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Himself
The Good Thief
2003
as Tony Angel (uncredited)
Maid in Manhattan
2002
as Christopher Marshall
Spider
2002
as Spider
Red Dragon
2002
as Francis Dolarhyde / Red Dragon
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Jesus (voice)
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
as Marcel Proust
Onegin
1999
as Onegin
The End of the Affair
1999
as Maurice Bendrix
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Sunshine
1999
as Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors
The Directors
1999
as Self
The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Rameses (voice)
The Avengers
1998
as John Steed
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
as Oscar Hopkins
Arthouse
1997
as Self
The English Patient
1996
as Count László de Almásy
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
Strange Days
1995
as Lenny Nero
Quiz Show
1994
as Charles Van Doren
Schindler's List
1993
as Amon Goeth
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Bishop's Son
The Cormorant
1993
as John Talbot
Wuthering Heights
1992
as Heathcliff
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as T.E. Lawrence
Prime Suspect
1991
as Michael
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Beacon
The Choral
as Dr. Guthrie
Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment
Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Brideshead Revisited
as Lord Marchmain (Alexander Flyte, Marquess of Marchmain)