Home >

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Birthday: 1962-12-22 | Place of Birth: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

An English actor, director and producer. 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 also known for his roles in major film franchises such as the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011), in which he played Lord Voldemort, and the James Bond series, in which he has 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. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK.

...

Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Forgiven

as    David Henninger

2022
Brideshead Revisited

as    Lord Marchmain

2022
Holmes & Watson: The Abandoned Case

as    Prof. James Moriarty

2022
2021
The Dig

as    Basil Brown

2021
Beat the Devil

as    David Hare

2021
No Time to Die

as    M

2021
The King's Man

as    Orlando Oxford

2019
Official Secrets

as    Ben Emmerson

2019
Coup 53

as    Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire

2018
The White Crow

as    Alexander Pushkin

2018
Holmes & Watson

as    Prof. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave

2017
The Lego Batman Movie

as    Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

2017
Sea Sorrow

as    Self

2016
Hail, Caesar!

as    Laurence Laurentz

2016
Kubo and the Two Strings

as    Moon King (voice)

2015
A Bigger Splash

as    Harry Hawkes

2015
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

as    Jack Tanner/Don Juan

2015
Spectre

as    M

2014
Two Women

as    Mikhail Rakitin

2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel

as    Monsieur Gustave H.

2014
Turks & Caicos

as    Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2014
Salting the Battlefield

as    Prime Minister Alec Beasley

2013
The Invisible Woman

as    Charles Dickens

2013
Muse of Fire

as    Self

2012
Skyfall

as    Gareth Mallory