Acting · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Born December 22, 1962
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.
MovieThe Hunger Games Series
2026
as Coriolanus Snow
MovieThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as President Coriolanus Snow
TVThe Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
as Self
Movie28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
as Dr Kelson
MovieThe Choral
2025
as Dr. Henry Guthrie
Movie28 Years Later
2025
as Dr. Ian Kelson
MovieThe Return
2024
as Odysseus (Ulisse)
MovieConclave
2024
as Lawrence
MovieNational Theatre Live: Macbeth
2024
as Macbeth
MovieThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
MoviePoison
2023
as Roald Dahl
MovieThe Rat Catcher
2023
as Rat Man / Roald Dahl
MovieThe Swan
2023
as Roald Dahl
MovieThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Roald Dahl / Policeman
MovieThe Menu
2022
as Chef Slowik
MovieFour Quartets
2022
as Self
TVSunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self - Actor
MovieThe Forgiven
2022
as David Henninger
MovieNational Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
as Robert Moses
MovieHarry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
MovieThe King's Man
2021
as Orlando Oxford
Designing Bond
2021
as Self
MovieBeat the Devil
2021
as David Hare
MovieNo Time to Die
2021
as M
MovieThe Dig
2021
as Basil Brown
MovieDolittle
2020
as Barry (voice)
MovieCoup 53
2019
as Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
MovieOfficial Secrets
2019
as Ben Emmerson
MovieThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
MovieHolmes & Watson
2018
as Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieNational Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2018
as Antony
MovieThe White Crow
2018
as Alexander Pushkin
MovieMy Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
as Self
MovieSea Sorrow
2017
as Self
MovieSpielberg
2017
as Self
MovieAndré: The Voice of Wine
2017
as Narrator
MovieThe Lego Batman Movie
2017
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
MovieButterflies
2016
as Self
MovieKubo and the Two Strings
2016
as Moon King (voice)
MovieAlmeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Richard III
MovieShakespeare Lives: The Works
2016
as Jaques
MovieHail, Caesar!
2016
as Laurence Laurentz
MovieA Bigger Splash
2015
as Harry Hawkes
MovieSpectre
2015
as M
MovieNational Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015
as Jack Tanner/Don Juan
TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
MovieTwo Women
2014
as Mikhail Rakitin
MovieHarry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
as Self
MovieSalting the Battlefield
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
MovieTurks & Caicos
2014
as Prime Minister Alec Beasley
MovieThe Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as M. Gustave
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
MovieThe Invisible Woman
2013
as Charles Dickens
MovieNational Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Lambert Le Roux
MovieMuse of Fire
2013
as Self
TVThe Frame
2013
as Lord Voldemort
MovieGreat Expectations
2012
as Abel Magwitch
MovieSkyfall
2012
as Gareth Mallory
MovieWrath of the Titans
2012
as Hades
MovieWhen Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
MoviePage Eight
2011
as Alec Beasley
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Lord Voldemort
MovieCoriolanus
2011
as Caius Martius Coriolanus
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Lord Voldemort
MovieThe Wildest Dream
2010
as George Mallory (voice)
MovieCemetery Junction
2010
as Mr. Kendrick
MovieNanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
as Lord Gray
MovieClash of the Titans
2010
as Hades
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Reader
2008
as Michael Berg
MovieThe Hurt Locker
2008
as Contractor Team Leader
MovieThe Duchess
2008
as Duke of Devonshire
MovieIn Bruges
2008
as Harry
MovieJ.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
2007
as Voldemort (archival footage)
MovieHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Lord Voldemort
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieBernard and Doris
2006
as Bernard Lafferty
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self
MovieChromophobia
2006
as Stephen Tulloch
MovieLand of the Blind
2006
as Joe
MovieAnatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
MovieHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Lord Voldemort
MovieThe White Countess
2005
as Todd Jackson
MovieWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Victor Quartermaine (voice)
MovieThe Constant Gardener
2005
as Justin Quayle
MovieThe Chumscrubber
2005
as Mayor Michael Ebbs
MovieTen Days to D-Day
2004
as Narrator
MovieImaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
MovieA Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Self
MovieThe Good Thief
2003
as Tony Angel (uncredited)
MovieMaid in Manhattan
2002
as Christopher Marshall
MovieSpider
2002
as Spider
MovieRed Dragon
2002
as Francis Dolarhyde
MovieThe Miracle Maker
2000
as Jesus (voice)
MovieHow Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
as Marcel Proust
MovieThe Beginning of the End of the Affair
2000
as Self
MovieOnegin
1999
as Onegin
MovieThe End of the Affair
1999
as Maurice Bendrix
MovieThe Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSunshine
1999
as Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
TVThe Directors
1999
as Self
MovieThe Prince of Egypt
1998
as Rameses (voice)
MovieThe Avengers
1998
as John Steed
TVParkinson
1998
as Self
MovieOscar and Lucinda
1997
as Oscar Hopkins
Arthouse
1997
as Self
TVThe View
1997
as Self - Guest
MovieThe English Patient
1996
as Almásy
TVThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MovieStrange Days
1995
as Lenny Nero
MovieQuiz Show
1994
as Charles Van Doren
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieSchindler's List
1993
as Amon Goeth
MovieThe Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Bishop's Son
MovieThe Cormorant
1993
as John Talbot
MovieWuthering Heights
1992
as Heathcliff
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
MovieA Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
as T.E. Lawrence
TVPrime Suspect
1991
as Michael
MovieWanted: Marjory and Oliver
1990
TVScreen Two
1985
as John Talbot
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The Beacon
Bike Me Up
as Paris Segment
Hallelujah!
as George Frideric Handel
Farnsworth House
as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Embers
as Henrik
MovieArt
as Marc
