About
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English theatre and film actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first came to prominence onstage in the Royal National Theatre. Since then, he has portrayed characters such as Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, Count Almásy in The English Patient, and Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. He also starred in The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, Onegin, and The End of the Affair, among others. He is well known for playing Lord Voldemort in most of the Harry Potter films.
In 2011, Ralph made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the titular character. Ralph won a Tony Award for playing Hamlet on Broadway and has been nominated twice for the Academy Award.
Director
| Year: | Movie: |
| 2018 | The White Crow |
| 2013 | The Invisible Woman |
| 2011 | Coriolanus |
Filmography
| Year: | Movie: | Role: |
| TBA | Conclave | Cardinal Lomeli |
| 2024 | The Return | Odysseus |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Roald Dahl |
| 2022 | The Menu | Chef Slowik |
| 2021 | The King's Man | Orlando, Duke of Oxford |
| 2021 | The Forgiven | David Henninger |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Gareth Mallory / M |
| 2021 | The Dig | Basil Brown |
| 2020 | Dolittle | Barry (voice) |
| 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Ben Emmerson |
| 2018 | Holmes & Watson | Professor Moriarty |
| 2018 | The White Crow | Pushkin |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Prospero |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Moon King / Raiden (voice) |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Laurence Laurentz |
| 2015 | Spectre | M |
| 2014 | Two Women | M.A. Rakitin |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield | Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos | Alec Beasley |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | M. Gustave |
| 2013 | The Invisible Woman | Charles Dickens |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Gareth Mallory / M |
| 2012 | Great Expectations | Magwitch |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans | Hades |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Coriolanus |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Alec Beasley |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 | Lord Voldemort |
| 2010 | The Wildest Dream | George Mallory |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 | Lord Voldemort |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Lord Gray |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Hades |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction | Mr Kendrick |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Contractor Team Leader |
| 2008 | The Reader | Older Michael Berg |
| 2008 | The Duchess | William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Harry Waters |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Lord Voldemort |
| 2006 | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty |
| 2006 | Land of the Blind | Joe |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Lord Voldemort |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Todd Jackson |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Lord Victor Quartermaine |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Justin Quayle |
| 2005 | Chromophobia | Stephen Tulloch |
| 2005 | The Chumscrubber | Mayor Michael Ebbs |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Christopher Marshall |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Francis Dolarhyde |
| 2002 | The Good Thief | Tony Angel |
| 2002 | Spider | Dennis "Spider" Cleg |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Jesus Christ |
| 1999 | The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrix |
| 1999 | Onegin | Evgeny Onegin |
| 1999 | Sunshine | Ignatz Sonnenschein, Adam Sors, Ivan Sors |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Rameses II |
| 1998 | The Avengers | John Steed |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | Oscar Hopkins |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Count László de Almássy |
| 1995 | Strange Days | Lenny Nero |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Charles Van Doren |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Amon Göth |
| 1993 | The Baby of Mâcon | The Bishop's son |
| 1992 | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff |
| 1990 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | T. E. Lawrence |
Television
| Year: | Series: | Role: | |
| 2022 | Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Himself | HBO special |
| 2011-2014 | Rev. | Bishop of London | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | Liberty's Kids | Charles Cornwallis | 1 episode (voice) |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect | Michael (a victim's boyfriend) | 2 episodes |
Theatre Credits
| Year: | Play: | Role: |
| 2022 | Straight Line Crazy by David Hare | Robert Moses |
| 2021 | The Four Quartets | .. |
| 2020 | Beat the Devil | .. |
| 2018 | Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare | Antony |
| 2016 | Richard III by William Shakespeare | Richard, Duke of Gloucester |
| 2016 | The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen | Halvard Solness |
| 2015 | Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw | Jack Tanner |
| 2013 | National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage | Lambert Le Roux (Pravda) |
| 2011 | The Tempest by William Shakespeare | Prospero |
| 2008 | Oedipus the King by Sophocles | Oedipus |
| 2008 | God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza | Alain Reille |
| 2007 | First Love by Samuel Beckett | ... |
| 2006 | Faith Healer by Brian Friel | Frank Hardy |
| 2005 | Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare | Mark Antony |
| 2003 | Brand by Henrik Ibsen | Brand |
| 2003 | The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton | Carl Jung |
| 2001 | The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben | Sir Ralph Fiennes |
| 2000 | Richard II by William Shakespeare | Richard II |
| 2000 | Coriolanus by William Shakespeare | Coriolanus |
| 1997 | Ivanov by Anton Chekhov translated by David Hare | Ivanov |
| 1995 | Hamlet by William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| 1991 | Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare | King of Navarre |
| 1990 | King Lear by William Shakespeare | Edmund |
| 1990 | Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare | Troilus |
| 1989 | Playing with Trains by Stephen Poliakoff | Gant |
| 1989 | The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman | Bert Jefferson |
| 1989 | King John by William Shakespeare | Dauphin |
| 1988-1989 | The Plantagenets: Henry VI, The Rise of Edward IV, Richard III His Death by William Shakespeare | Henry VI, ghost of Henry VI |
| 1988 | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare | Claudio |
| 1987 | Ting Tang Mine by Nick Darke | Lisha Ball |
| 1987 | Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | Arkady Nikolayevich Kirsanov |
| 1987 | Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello | Son |
| 1986 | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare | Romeo |
| 1986 | A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare | Lysander |
| 1985 | A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare | Cobweb |
| 1985 | Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare | Curio |
Video Games
| Year: | Title: | Voice Role: |
| 2015 | James Bond: World of Espionage | M |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Lord Voldemort |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Lord Voldemort |
Source: Wikipedia.