
Ralph Fiennes
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Biography
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 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. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
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.
Known For

Tony Awards

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

The Oscars

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Prime Suspect

Creating the World of Harry Potter

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Dolittle

Despicable Me 4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Kubo and the Two Strings

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Hurt Locker

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Clash of the Titans

No Time to Die

28 Years Later

The Wildest Dream

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Spectre

The Lego Batman Movie

Skyfall

Schindler's List

Wrath of the Titans

Page Eight

In Bruges

Official Secrets

Red Dragon

A Bigger Splash

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Maid in Manhattan

The Dig

The Prince of Egypt

The Menu

The Duchess

Wuthering Heights

Quiz Show

Conclave

The Avengers

The Forgiven

Spider

The Constant Gardener

The King's Man

The English Patient

28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Return

Coriolanus

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Production Credits
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