Birth Day: 1962-12-22
Place of birth: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
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.
Credits
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As Macbeth
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As Cardinal Lomeli
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As Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
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As Rat Man / Roald Dahl
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As Roald Dahl
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As Roald Dahl / Policeman
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As Roald Dahl
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As Self
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As Self
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As Himself
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As Robert Moses
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As David Henninger
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As Chef Slowik
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As Orlando Oxford
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As Self
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As M
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As David Hare
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Basil Brown
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As Barry (voice)
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As Ben Emmerson
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As Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
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As Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
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As Antony
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As Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
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As Himself
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As Alexander Pushkin
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As Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
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As Narrator
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As Self
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As Self
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As Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
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As Alfred
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As himself
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As Richard III
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As Jaques
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As Laurence Laurentz
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As Moon King (voice)
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As Harry Hawkes
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As M
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As Jack Tanner/Don Juan
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As Monsieur Gustave H.
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As Self / M. Gustave
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As Mikhail Rakitin
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As Prime Minister Alec Beasley
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As Prime Minister Alec Beasley
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As Self
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As Charles Dickens
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As Lambert Le Roux
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As Gareth Mallory
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As Hades
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As Abel Magwitch
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As Self
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As Lord Voldemort
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As Caius Martius Coriolanus
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As Alec Beasley
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As Lord Voldemort
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As Mr. Kendrick
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As Lord Gray
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As Hades
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As George Mallory (voice)
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As Harry Waters
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As Michael Berg
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As Contractor Team Leader
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As Duke of Devonshire
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As Lord Voldemort
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As Stephen Tulloch
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As Joe
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As Self
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As Bernard Lafferty
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As Justin Quayle
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As Victor Quartermaine (voice)
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As Mayor Michael Ebbs
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As Lord Voldemort
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As Todd Jackson
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As Self
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As Narrator
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As Himself
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As Tony Angel (uncredited)
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Francis Dolarhyde / Red Dragon
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As Christopher Marshall
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As Spider
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As Jesus (voice)
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As Marcel Proust
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As Onegin
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As Maurice Bendrix
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Ignatz/Adam/Ivan Sors
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As John Steed
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As Rameses (voice)
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As Oscar Hopkins
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As Count László de Almásy
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As Lenny Nero
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As Charles Van Doren
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As Amon Goeth
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As John Talbot
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As The Bishop's Son
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As Heathcliff
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As T.E. Lawrence
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As Odysseus
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As Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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As George Frideric Handel
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As Dr. Guthrie
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As Macbeth