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.

Filmography

• 202628 Years Later: The Bone Temple — Dr. Kelson
• 2026Eugene Onegin — Director
• 2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping — President Coriolanus Snow
• 202528 Years Later — Dr. Kelson
• 2025The Choral — Dr. Henry Guthrie
• 2024Conclave — Lawrence, Executive Producer
• 2024National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Macbeth
• 2024The Return — Odysseus, Executive Producer
• 2024The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More — Roald Dahl / The Policeman / Rat Man (archive footage)
• 2023Poison — Roald Dahl
• 2023The Rat Catcher — Rat Man / Roald Dahl
• 2023The Swan — Roald Dahl
• 2023The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar — Roald Dahl / Policeman
• 2022Four Quartets — Self, Producer
• 2022National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy — Robert Moses
• 2022The Forgiven — David Henninger
• 2022The Menu — Chef Slowik
• 2021Beat the Devil — David Hare
• 2021No Time to Die — M
• 2021The Dig — Basil Brown
• 2021The King's Man — Orlando Oxford, Executive Producer
• 2020Dolittle — Barry (voice)
• 2019Coup 53 — Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire, Thanks
• 2019Official Secrets — Ben Emmerson
• 2019The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
• 2018Holmes & Watson — James Moriarty
• 2018National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra — Antony
• 2018The White Crow — Alexander Pushkin, Director, Producer
• 2017André: The Voice of Wine — Narrator
• 2017The Lego Batman Movie — Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
• 2016Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III — Richard III
• 2016Hail, Caesar! — Laurence Laurentz
• 2016Kubo and the Two Strings — Moon King (voice)
• 2016Shakespeare Lives: The Works — Jaques
• 2015A Bigger Splash — Harry Hawkes
• 2015National Theatre Live: Man and Superman — Jack Tanner/Don Juan
• 2015Spectre — M
• 2014Salting the Battlefield — Prime Minister Alec Beasley
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — M. Gustave
• 2014Turks & Caicos — Prime Minister Alec Beasley
• 2014Two Women — Mikhail Rakitin
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage — Lambert Le Roux
• The Frame — Lord Voldemort
• 2013The Invisible Woman — Charles Dickens, Director
• 2012Great Expectations — Abel Magwitch
• 2012Skyfall — Gareth Mallory
• 2012Wrath of the Titans — Hades
• 2011Coriolanus — Caius Martius Coriolanus, Director, Producer
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Lord Voldemort
• 2011Page Eight — Alec Beasley
• 2010Cemetery Junction — Mr. Kendrick
• 2010Clash of the Titans — Hades
• 2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Lord Voldemort
• 2010Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang — Lord Gray
• 2010The Wildest Dream — George Mallory (voice)
• 2008In Bruges — Harry
• 2008The Duchess — Duke of Devonshire
• 2008The Hurt Locker — Contractor Team Leader
• 2008The Reader — Michael Berg
• 2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Lord Voldemort
• 2007J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life — Voldemort (archival footage)
• 2006Bernard and Doris — Bernard Lafferty
• 2006Chromophobia — Stephen Tulloch
• 2006Land of the Blind — Joe
• 2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Lord Voldemort
• 2005The Chumscrubber — Mayor Michael Ebbs
• 2005The Constant Gardener — Justin Quayle
• 2005The White Countess — Todd Jackson
• 2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Victor Quartermaine (voice)
• 2004Ten Days to D-Day — Narrator
• 2004The End of the Affair: "Making of"
• 2003The Good Thief — Tony Angel (uncredited)
• 2002Maid in Manhattan — Christopher Marshall
• 2002Red Dragon — Francis Dolarhyde
• 2002Spider — Spider
• 2000How Proust Can Change Your Life — Marcel Proust
• 2000The Miracle Maker — Jesus (voice)
• 1999Onegin — Onegin, Executive Producer
• 1999Sunshine — Ignatz / Adam / Ivan Sors
• 1999The End of the Affair — Maurice Bendrix
• 1998The Avengers — John Steed
• 1998The Prince of Egypt — Rameses (voice)
• 1997Oscar and Lucinda — Oscar Hopkins
• 1996The English Patient — Almásy
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century — Wilfred Owen (voice)
• 1995Strange Days — Lenny Nero
• 1994Quiz Show — Charles Van Doren
• 1993Schindler's List — Amon Goeth
• 1993The Baby of Mâcon — The Bishop's Son
• 1993The Cormorant — John Talbot
• 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia — T.E. Lawrence
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1992Wuthering Heights — Heathcliff
• Prime Suspect — Michael
• 1990Wanted: Marjory and Oliver
• Screen Two — John Talbot
• Art — Marc
• Bike Me Up — Paris Segment
• Embers — Henrik
• Farnsworth House — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Hallelujah! — George Frideric Handel
• The Beacon — Writer, Director

Appearances as themselves (34)

• 2026Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond — Self
• The Claudia Winkleman Show — Self
• 2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self - Actor
• 2021Designing Bond — Self
• 2018An Oral History of: Schindler's List — Self (archive footage)
• 2018My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw — Self
• 2017Sea Sorrow — Self
• 2017Spielberg — Self
• 2016Butterflies — Self
• 2014Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2011When Harry Left Hogwarts — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener — Self
• The One Show — Self
• 2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust — Self
• 2003A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' — Self
• 2000The Beginning of the End of the Affair — Self
• The Directors — Self
• 1999The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen — Self (archive footage)
• Parkinson — Self
• Arthouse — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee