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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 22 December 1962) is an English
England

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
, Quiz Show, The English Patient
The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 in literature novel by Sri Lankan-Canada novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italy villa....
, Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey , which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the son of an English Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory....
, Red Dragon
Red Dragon (film)

Red Dragon is a 2002 Thriller film, based on the Red Dragon written by Thomas Harris featuring psychiatrist and menacing serial killer Dr....
, The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (film)

The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 in film British stop motion animation film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film....
, the Harry Potter films
Harry Potter (film series)

The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
, and In Bruges
In Bruges

In Bruges is a 2008 in film film directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss....
. Most recently he appeared in The Reader
The Reader (film)

The Reader is a 2008 in film drama film based on the 1995 in literature German language The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry....
.

Two time Academy Award nominated, he is the only actor ever to have won a Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for playing Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. In 2001, Fiennes received the William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 Award from the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
.

Fiennes is also a UNICEF UK
UNICEF UK

UNICEF UK, also known as the United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF, is one of 37 List of UNICEF National Committees based in industrialised countries....
 ambassador.

nes was born in Ipswich
Ipswich

Ipswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk, Harwich in Essex and Colchester also in Essex....
, Suffolk
Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, the son of Mark Fiennes
Mark Fiennes

Mark Fiennes was an England photographer and illustrator.Fiennes was born at Dalton, Northumberland, Northumberland, England, the eldest of five children of the industrialist Maurice Fiennes, who was later knighted by Harold Wilson for his services to the export of British heavy engineering products, and of his wife Sylvia....
 (1933-2004), a farmer and photographer (and son of industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes
Maurice Fiennes

Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was an England industrialist.He was chairman of Davy-Ashmore in Sheffield and achieved success as a producer of high quality United Kingdom steel....
), and Jennifer Lash
Jennifer Lash

Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash was an England novelist and Painting.In 1961, she published her first novel, The Burial, at the age of 23....
 (1938-1993), a writer.






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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 22 December 1962) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
, Quiz Show, The English Patient
The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 in literature novel by Sri Lankan-Canada novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italy villa....
, Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey , which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the son of an English Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory....
, Red Dragon
Red Dragon (film)

Red Dragon is a 2002 Thriller film, based on the Red Dragon written by Thomas Harris featuring psychiatrist and menacing serial killer Dr....
, The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (film)

The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 in film British stop motion animation film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film....
, the Harry Potter films
Harry Potter (film series)

The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
, and In Bruges
In Bruges

In Bruges is a 2008 in film film directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss....
. Most recently he appeared in The Reader
The Reader (film)

The Reader is a 2008 in film drama film based on the 1995 in literature German language The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry....
.

Two time Academy Award nominated, he is the only actor ever to have won a Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for playing Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. In 2001, Fiennes received the William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 Award from the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
.

Fiennes is also a UNICEF UK
UNICEF UK

UNICEF UK, also known as the United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF, is one of 37 List of UNICEF National Committees based in industrialised countries....
 ambassador.

Early life

Fiennes was born in Ipswich
Ipswich

Ipswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk, Harwich in Essex and Colchester also in Essex....
, Suffolk
Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, the son of Mark Fiennes
Mark Fiennes

Mark Fiennes was an England photographer and illustrator.Fiennes was born at Dalton, Northumberland, Northumberland, England, the eldest of five children of the industrialist Maurice Fiennes, who was later knighted by Harold Wilson for his services to the export of British heavy engineering products, and of his wife Sylvia....
 (1933-2004), a farmer and photographer (and son of industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes
Maurice Fiennes

Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was an England industrialist.He was chairman of Davy-Ashmore in Sheffield and achieved success as a producer of high quality United Kingdom steel....
), and Jennifer Lash
Jennifer Lash

Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash was an England novelist and Painting.In 1961, she published her first novel, The Burial, at the age of 23....
 (1938-1993), a writer. His surname is of Norman
Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock....
 origin. He is a third cousin of the adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet Order of the British Empire , usually known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a United Kingdom List of explorers and holder of several endurance records....
. The eldest of seven children, his siblings are actor Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Alberic Fiennes is a Screen Actors Guild Award award-winning English film and Theatre actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in Elizabeth , and Martin Luther in Luther ....
 (Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 in film romantic comedy/drama film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....
, Luther
Luther (2003 film)

Luther is a 2003 in film biopic about the life of Martin Luther . It was released by MGM and was partially funded by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans....
), Martha Fiennes
Martha Fiennes

Martha Maria Fiennes is a film director, writer and Film producer.She has made a number of music videos but is best known for her films Eugene Onegin#Film and Chromophobia ....
, a director (in her film Onegin
Onegin (film)

Onegin is a 1999 film based on Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom....
, he acted the title role), Magnus Fiennes
Magnus Fiennes

Magnus Fiennes is a prolific cross-genre composer, record producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Pulp , Tom Jones and Morcheeba....
, a composer, Sophie Fiennes
Sophie Fiennes

Sophie Victoria Fiennes is an English filmmaker. Exploring a broad range of ideas and diverse modes of creativity, Fiennes' films play with notions of performance and identity....
, a filmmaker, Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist, and his foster brother Michael Emery, an archaeologist.

The Fiennes family moved to Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 in 1973, living in West Cork
West Cork

West Cork in south-west Ireland, lies in Ireland's largest county, County Cork. The area is actively promoted as distinct from other areas of the county, such as the more populated northern or eastern parts of the county, as well as the more urban area of Metropolitan Cork....
 and County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny

County Kilkenny is a landlocked counties of Ireland in Republic of Ireland. The county takes its name from the Cities in Ireland of Kilkenny and has a population of 87,558....
 for some years, where Fiennes attended St Kieran's College
St Kieran's College

St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, Ireland is primarily a Secondary school for boys. It has long been a nursery for hurling....
 for one year. He also attended Newtown, a Quaker school in Waterford. They moved to Salisbury
Salisbury

Salisbury is a city status in the United Kingdom in Wiltshire, England. The city forms the largest part of the Salisbury . It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement at Salisbury, Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use....
 in England, where Fiennes finished his schooling at Bishop Wordsworth's School
Bishop Wordsworth's School

Bishop Wordsworth's School is a Church of England boys' day grammar school located in the centre of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. In 2007 there were 858 pupils aged between 11 and 18....
 before attending Chelsea College of Art.

Career

Fiennes trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in Britain....
. He began his career at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in the City of Westminster, London, is a permanent venue with a three to four month summer season. It was founded in 1932 by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins ....
 and, also during the late 1980s, the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
 before becoming a star in the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
. Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront?'s only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte Bront?....
 opposite Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
, for which he received substantial acclaim and praise throughout Europe.

1993 was his "breakout year". He had a major role in the very controversial Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom film director born in Wales. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
 film The Baby of Mâcon
The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of M?con is a 1993 movie screenplay and film director by Peter Greenaway starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone. This is considered by many to be the most controversial film in Peter Greenaway's filmography....
 with Julia Ormond
Julia Ormond

Julia Karin Ormond is a United Kingdom actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage....
. Though the film was poorly received, Fiennes's career suffered no lasting consequences, and later that year he became known internationally for portraying the amoral Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth
Amon Göth

File:Amon Goeth with Rifle.jpgAmon Leopold G?th was a Hauptsturmf?hrer of the Schutzstaffel and was the commandant of the Nazism concentration camp at Krak?w-Plasz?w concentration camp, General Government ....
 in Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
's Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
. For this he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
. He did not win the Oscar, but did win the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Awards presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film....
 for the role. His portrayal as Göth also earned him a spot on the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
's list of top 50 movie villains
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100 greatest movie heroes and villains chosen by American Film Institute in June 2003....
.

In 1994, he portrayed American academic Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren

Charles Lincoln Van Doren , a noted United States intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s....
 in Quiz Show
Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. It stars John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, and Christopher McDonald....
, and in 1996 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for the World War II epic romance The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
. Fiennes' work has ranged from thrillers (Red Dragon
Red Dragon (film)

Red Dragon is a 2002 Thriller film, based on the Red Dragon written by Thomas Harris featuring psychiatrist and menacing serial killer Dr....
) to animated Biblical
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 epic (The Prince of Egypt
The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 in film American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The story follows the life of Moses from his birth, through his childhood as a prince of Egypt, and finally to his ultimate destiny to lead the Hebrews slaves out of Egypt, which is based on the Biblical...
) to campy nostalgia (The Avengers
The Avengers (film)

The Avengers is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the British cult following#cult television The Avengers from the 1960s....
) to romantic comedy (Maid in Manhattan
Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film about a hotel maid and a high profile politician who fall in love, directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes....
) and offbeat dramedy (Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey , which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the son of an English Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory....
). Fiennes was cast as Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort is a fictional character and the main Antagonist in the Harry Potter novel series written by United Kingdom author J. K. Rowling....
 in the 2005 fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 in film fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter ....
 and has retained this role for both the 5th film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 in film fantasy film adventure film film, based on the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J....
 and the 7th and 8th films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which will be released in two parts in 2010 and 2011. Lord Voldemort does not appear in the book of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the sixth of seven novels in J. K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter series....
 and so Fiennes will not appear in the film
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is an upcoming 2009 in film fantasy film-adventure film, based on the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J....
. However, as Voldemort appears as an 11 year-old, Ralph's nephew , Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

Hero Fiennes-Tiffin is an England 10-year-old actor best known for his upcoming role as the 11-year-old Lord Voldemort, the young version of antagonist Lord Voldemort, in the sixth installment of Harry Potter Harry Potter , Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , to be released on 17 July 2009 in the United States of America and the Unit...
 will play him.

The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (film)

The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
 was released in 2005 with Fiennes as the title role. The film is set in the slums of Kibera
Kibera

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya is the largest slum in Africa, and has a population estimated at one million. The name "Kibera" is derived from kibra, a Nubian word meaning "forest" or "jungle." ...
 and Loiyangalani
Loiyangalani

Loiyangalani is a small town located on the southeastern coast of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The town has 1000 inhabitants . Loiyangalani means "a place of many trees" in the native Samburu language tongue....
, Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
. The situation affected the crew to the extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust
Constant Gardener Trust

The Constant Gardener Trust was established in 2004 soon after the filming of The Constant Gardener near Nairobi, Kenya. On location in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, the situation of the inhabitants affected the crew so much it was decided to set up the Trust in order to give thanks to the community for their help during filming....
 in order to provide basic education around these villages. Fiennes is a patron of the charity. His 2007 performance in the play Faith Healer
Faith Healer

Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy....
 gained him a nomination for a 2006 Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
.

In 2008 he reteamed with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent
Jonathan Kent

Jonathan Kent may refer to:*Jonathan Kent , British actor, then later theatre and opera director*Jonathan Kent , adoptive father of DC Comics character Superman...
 to play the title role in Sophocles' Oedipus
Oedipus

Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
 . He will also appear in a 2010 West End revival of Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya is a tragicomedy by the Russian literature playwright Anton Chekhov published in 1899. Its first major performance was in 1900 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
. Also, he played the Duke of Devonshire in The Duchess (2008).

In February 2009. he was the special guest of the Belgrade
Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
's Film Festival FEST
FEST

FEST is a faculty of Moscow State Forest University that specializes in computer science. It was founded in 1959 by initiative of academician Sergey Pavlovich Korolev....
. He plans to make a movie in Serbian
Serbian

Serbian may refer to:* A member of the Serbs ethnic group* A citizen of Serbia* Serbian language* English translation for ambiguous word Srbijanci in Serbian language...
 capital of Belgrade
Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
 in 2010. after a Shakespeare book. His plans to do it in 2009. are prolonged because of the Economic Crisis in the world.

2003 10 06 Ralph Fiennes in Bishkek

Personal life

Fiennes met actress Alex Kingston
Alex Kingston

Alexandra Kingston is an England actress most widely known for her role as Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER .Early life...
 while both were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. After dating for ten years, they married in 1993. However, they divorced in 1997. In 1995, Fiennes started dating Francesca Annis
Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis is a Brazil-born British people actor, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC series, Wives and Daughters, Cranford , and Deceit ....
, an actress 17 years his senior, who played his mother in Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
. In February 2006 the couple separated after tabloid
Tabloid

A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensationalism crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuend...
 reports revealed that Fiennes had had an affair
Affair

For other uses, see Love Affair or ScandalAn affair may refer to a form of forms of nonmonogamy, to infidelity or to adultery. Where an affair lacks both overt and covert sexual behaviour and yet exhibits intense or enduring emotional intimacy it is called an emotional affair....
 with Romanian
Romanians

], 26 Nov 2004. Reprinted at , retrieved 18 Dec 2005.External links *...
 singer Cornelia Crisan. In late 2006, sources reported that Fiennes was dating American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin

Ellen Rona Barkin is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States actress....
.

Controversy

Fiennes stirred controversy in February 2007 when staff aboard a Qantas
Qantas

Qantas Airways Limited is the national airline of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services"....
 airline flight from Australia to India caught the actor leaving the same airplane lavatory as 38-year-old female flight attendant Lisa Robertson. At first denying any allegations of a mid-air tryst, Robertson later confessed to having unprotected sex in the stall with Fiennes, whom she had met just hours before. Fiennes reportedly was enroute to Mumbai, India, as a participant in AIDS
AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the HIV ....
 awareness efforts for UNICEF. The organization would retain Fiennes as an ambassador, but Qantas would ultimately relieve Robertson of her duties.

One month after the airline incident, Fiennes again made headlines when he reportedly disturbed sleeping guests at Bruges, Belgium's posh Hotel Tuilerieen during a 5 a.m. naked pool romp with four women. The actor was a guest at the hotel while shooting the film. Insider sources say that the women were brought and their company was enjoyed by a different member of the crew, whose name attracts no press.

Work


Selected filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1990
1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved some significant events....
 A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia is a Made for TV movie from 1990 depicting the events involving T. E. Lawrence and Faisal I of Iraq at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 following the end of World War I....
 T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British people soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18....
 TV
1992
1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
 Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Emily Bront?'s Wuthering Heights was a 1992 feature film adaptation of Emily Bront? novel Wuthering Heights.Paramount Pictures was forced to use the author's name in the title of the film as Samuel Goldwyn Studio owned the rights to the simple title Wuthering Heights due to the copyright on their Wuthering Heights of the novel....
 Heathcliff
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Heathcliff is a fictional character in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, Heathcliff is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured Romanticism Byronic hero whose all-consuming passion are powerful enough to destroy both himself and those around him....
 
1993
1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ...
 The Baby of Macon
The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of M?con is a 1993 movie screenplay and film director by Peter Greenaway starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone. This is considered by many to be the most controversial film in Peter Greenaway's filmography....
 The Bishop's son 
Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
 Amon Göth
Amon Göth

File:Amon Goeth with Rifle.jpgAmon Leopold G?th was a Hauptsturmf?hrer of the Schutzstaffel and was the commandant of the Nazism concentration camp at Krak?w-Plasz?w concentration camp, General Government ....
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Awards presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film....

Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....

Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ? Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 in film for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....
1994
1994 in film

The year 1994 in film involved some significant events....
 Quiz Show Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren

Charles Lincoln Van Doren , a noted United States intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s....
 
1995
1995 in film

The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
 Strange Days
Strange Days (film)

Strange Days is the title of a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott and Vincent D'Onofrio....
 Lenny Nero 
1996
1996 in film

The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
 The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
 Count László de Almássy Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....

Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Awards presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film....

Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....

Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997
1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
 Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey , which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the son of an English Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory....
 Oscar Hopkins 
1998
1998 in film

The year 1998 in film involved some significant events....
 The Avengers
The Avengers (film)

The Avengers is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the British cult following#cult television The Avengers from the 1960s....
 John Steed 
The Prince of Egypt
The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 in film American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The story follows the life of Moses from his birth, through his childhood as a prince of Egypt, and finally to his ultimate destiny to lead the Hebrews slaves out of Egypt, which is based on the Biblical...
 Rameses
Ramesses

Ramesses is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Ancient Egypt pharaohs of the later Conventional Egyptian chronology#New Kingdom period....
 (voice)
1999
1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan , The Mummy , and the hig...
 Sunshine
Sunshine (1999 film)

Sunshine is an award-winning 1999 historical film directed, written and produced by Istv?n Szab?. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
 Ignatz Sonnenschein/Adam Sors/Ivan Sors European Film Award for Best European Actor
Onegin
Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes....
 Evgeny Onegin 
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair (1999 film)

The End of the Affair is a 1999 in film drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.The film is based on The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene....
 Maurice Bendrix Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Awards presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film....
2000
2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
 The Miracle Maker
The Miracle Maker

The Miracle Maker is a Wales/Russian stop motion-animated film about the life of Jesus Christ through the eyes of a little girl, directed by Derek Hayes and Stanislav Sokolov....
 Jesus Christ
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 (voice)
2002
2002 in film

The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
 Spider
Spider (film)

Spider is a 2002 in film psychological thriller directed by Canada David Cronenberg and based on Spider by Patrick McGrath , who also wrote the screenplay....
 Spider 
The Good Thief
The Good Thief

The Good Thief is a 2002 film starring Nutsa Kukhianidze and Nick Nolte, directed by Neil Jordan. It is a remake of a famous 1955 French film Bob le flambeur, by Jean-Pierre Melville....
 Tony Angel (uncredited)
Red Dragon
Red Dragon (film)

Red Dragon is a 2002 Thriller film, based on the Red Dragon written by Thomas Harris featuring psychiatrist and menacing serial killer Dr....
 Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde

Francis Dolarhyde is a fictional character featured in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon ....
 
Maid in Manhattan
Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film about a hotel maid and a high profile politician who fall in love, directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes....
 Christopher Marshall 
2005
2005 in film

The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
 The Chumscrubber
The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber is a 2005 in film dark comedy film directed by Arie Posin and written by Posin and Zac Stanford, starring an Ensemble cast....
 Mayor Michael Ebbs 
Chromophobia Stephen Tulloch 
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (film)

The Constant Gardener is a 2005 in film drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carr? The Constant Gardener....
 Justin Quayle Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Awards presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film....
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 in film British stop motion animation film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film....
 Victor Quartermaine (voice)
The White Countess
The White Countess

The White Countess is a 2005 in film United Kingdom/United States/China drama film directed by James Ivory . The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s....
 Todd Jackson 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 in film fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter ....
 Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort is a fictional character and the main Antagonist in the Harry Potter novel series written by United Kingdom author J. K. Rowling....
 
2006
2006 in film

The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
 Land of the Blind Joe 
2007
2007 in film

The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 in film fantasy film adventure film film, based on the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J....
 Lord Voldemort 
Bernard and Doris
Bernard and Doris

Bernard and Doris is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United States television movie directed by Bob Balaban. The screenplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the the relationship that developed between socialite Beneficiary and Philanthropy Doris Duke and her self-destructive Ireland employee Bernard Lafferty later in her l...
 Bernard Lafferty Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie....

Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film
2008
2008 in film

The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
 In Bruges
In Bruges

In Bruges is a 2008 in film film directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss....
 Harry WatersNominated - British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
The Duchess
The Duchess (film)

The Duchess is a 2008 in film British costume drama film based on Amanda Foreman best-selling biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire....
 William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire

William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Order of the Garter , was the eldest son of the William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire by his wife the heiress Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, suo jure Baroness Clifford of Lanesborough, who brought in considerable money and estates to the Cavendish family....
 Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ? Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 in film for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....

Nominated - British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
The Reader
The Reader (film)

The Reader is a 2008 in film drama film based on the 1995 in literature German language The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry....
 Older Michael Berg 
2009
2009 in film

The year '2009 in film' has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels and remakes such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Friday the 13th , Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Saw VI, Transformers: Reven...
 The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is an award-winning 2009 in film United States war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Shot entirely on location in Jordan, the film is based on recently declassified information about a U.S....
 Contractor Team Leader 
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part I) Lord Voldemort pre-production - Not yet signed
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II) Lord Voldemort pre-production - Not yet signed


Stage

  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
     (1985) - Role: Curio - Directed by Richard Digby Day - New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic love Shakespearean comedies by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596....
     by William Shakespeare (1985) - Role: Cobweb - Directed by Toby Robertson - New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1986) - Role: Lysander - Directed by David Conville and Emma Freud - New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London and New Shakespeare Company's European Tour
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1986) - Role: Romeo - Directed by Declan Donnellan - New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London
  • Six Characters In Search Of An Author by Luigi Pirandello (1987) - Role: Son - Directed by Michael Rudman - National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1987) - Role: Arkady Nikolayevich Kirsanov - Directed by Michael Rudman - National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, London
  • Ting Tang Mine by Nick Darke
    Nick Darke

    Nick Darke born Nicholas Temperley Watson Darke was best known as playwright but was also a writer, poet, lobster fisherman, environmentalist, beachcomber, politician, broadcaster, film-maker and chairman of St Eval Parish Council....
     (1987) - Role: Lisha Ball - Directed by Michael Rudman - National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre, London
  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1988) - Role: Claudio - Directed by Di Trevis - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • The Plantagenets: Henry VI, The Rise of Edward IV, Richard III His Death by William Shakespeare (1988-1989) - Role: Henry VI, ghost of Henry VI - Directed by Adrian Noble - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and Barbican Theatre, London
  • King John (1989) by William Shakespeare - Role: Dauphin - Directed by Deborah Warner - The Other Place Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and The Pit Theatre, London
  • The Man Who Came To Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1989) - Role: Bert Jefferson - Directed by Ron Gene Saks - The Royal Shakespeare Company - Barbican Theatre, London
  • Playing With Trains by Stephen Poliakoff (1989) - Role: Gant - Directed by Ron Daniels - The Royal Shakespeare Company - The Pit Theatre, London
  • Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (1990) - Role: Troilus - Directed by Sam Mendes
    Sam Mendes

    Samuel Alexander Mendes Order of the British Empire is an English Theatre director, film and commercial director at RSA US. He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret , starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film, American Beauty , for which he won an Academy Award for Directing....
     - The Royal Shakespeare Company - Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare (1990) - Role: Edmund - Directed by Nicholas Hytner
    Nicholas Hytner

    Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English film and theatre producer and director, regarded by some as one of the most prolific and accomplished of his generation on either side of the Atlantic....
     - The Royal Shakespeare Company - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (1991) - Role: Berowne - Directed by Terry Hands - The Royal Shakespeare Company - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and Barbican Theatre, London
  • Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
     by William Shakespeare (1995) - Role: Hamlet, with Francesca Annis
    Francesca Annis

    Francesca Annis is a Brazil-born British people actor, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC series, Wives and Daughters, Cranford , and Deceit ....
     as Gertrude - Directed by Jonathan Kent
    Jonathan Kent

    Jonathan Kent may refer to:*Jonathan Kent , British actor, then later theatre and opera director*Jonathan Kent , adoptive father of DC Comics character Superman...
     - The Almeida Theatre
    Almeida Theatre

    The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off A1 road , in the London Borough of Islington....
     Company - Hackney Empire
    Hackney Empire

    The Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a music hall....
    , London and Belasco Theatre
    Belasco Theatre

    The Belasco Theatre is a legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany glass lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artists Everett Shinn, and a ten-room du...
     on Broadway, NY
  • Ivanov
    Ivanov (play)

    Ivanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.Ivanov was first performed in 1887 in literature, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy....
     by Anton Chekhov
    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian Short story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature....
     translated by David Hare
    David Hare (dramatist)

    Sir David Hare is an English people playwright and Theatre director and film director....
     (February-April 1997) - Role: Ivanov - Directed by Jonathan Kent - The Almeida Theatre
    Almeida Theatre

    The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off A1 road , in the London Borough of Islington....
     Company - Almeida Theatre, London
  • Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (2000) - Role: Coriolanus - Directed by Jonathan Kent - The Almeida Theatre Company - Gainsborough Film Studios in Shoreditch, London and BAM Harvey Theatre in Brooklyn, New York City
  • Richard II by William Shakespeare (2000) - Role: Richard II - Directed by Jonathan Kent - The Almeida Theatre Company - Gainsborough Film Studios in Shoreditch, London and BAM Harvey Theatre in Brooklyn, New York City
  • The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben (2001) - Role: Sir Ralph Fiennes - Directed by Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
     - The Duo The Right Size - Wyndham's Theatre, West End
    West End theatre

    West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
  • The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton
    Christopher Hampton

    Christopher James Hampton CBE is an Academy Award-winning British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the Atonement of Ian McEwan Atonement ....
     (2003) - Role: Carl Jung - Directed by Howard Davies
    Howard Davies (Theatre Director)

    Howard Davies is an English theatre director....
     - National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre, London
  • Brand by Henrik Ibsen
    Henrik Ibsen

    Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Nineteenth-century theatre Norway playwright of realism drama and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre....
     (2003) - Role: Brand - Directed by Adrian Noble
    Adrian Noble

    Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and Chief executive officer of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003....
     - The Royal Shakespeare Company
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     - Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     by William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
     (2005) - Role: Mark Anthony - Directed by Deborah Warner
    Deborah Warner

    Deborah Warner Order of the British Empire is a British Theatre director of theatre and opera known for her interpretations of the list of Shakespeare's works, Bertolt Brecht, Georg B?chner, and Henrik Ibsen, and for her long-term working relationship with the actress Fiona Shaw....
     - Barbican Centre
    Barbican Centre

    Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts center in Europe. Located in the north of the City of London, England, in the heart of the Barbican Estate, the Centre hosts classical music and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions....
    , London & tour
  • Faith Healer
    Faith Healer

    Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy....
     by Brian Friel
    Brian Friel

    Brian Friel is an Irish people dramatist and theatre director from Northern Ireland....
     (2006) - Role: Frank Hardy - Directed by Jonathan Kent
    Jonathan Kent (director)

    Jonathan Kent is an English theatre director and List of opera directors. He is best known as a director/producer partner of Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre fron 1990 to 2002....
     - Gate Theatre, Dublin and Booth Theatre on Broadway, New York City
  • First Love by Samuel Beckett - Sydney Festival 2007
  • God of Carnage
    God of Carnage

    God of Carnage is a play by Yasmina Reza, first directed by J?rgen Gosch and performed first in Z?rich on 8 December, 2006. It was first produced in English language in London on 25 March, 2008 translated by Christopher Hampton....
     by Yasmina Reza
    Yasmina Reza

    Yasmina Reza is a France playwright, actor, novelist and screenwriting. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungary....
     (2008) - Role: Alain Reille - Gielgud Theatre
    Gielgud Theatre

    The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, London, at the corner of Rupert Street. The house currently has 889 seats on three levels....
    , West End
  • Oedipus by Sophocles (2008) - Role: Oedipus - National Theatre, London


Selected television credits

  • Prime Suspect
    Prime Suspect

    Prime Suspect is a United Kingdom police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s....
     (1991)


Selected other projects, contributions

  • When Love Speaks
    When Love Speaks

    When Love Speaks is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's Sonnet and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April 2002....
     (2002, EMI Classics
    EMI Classics

    EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed european classical music releases....
    ) - "Sonnet 129
    Sonnet 129

    AnalysisShakespeare's 129th sonnet describes the mental conflict one often undergoes after having acted out desire. This may be guilt and shame felt by the young man, a reccurring character in Shakespeare's sonnets, for lusting after the dark lady ....
    " ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame")


Awards and nominations

Awards
  • 1993 - NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor - Schindler's List
    Schindler's List

    Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
  • 1994 - BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor - Schindler's List
  • 1994 - NSFC Award, DFWFCA Award, and CFCA Award for Best Supporting Actor - Schindler's List
  • 1995 - ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year - Schindler's List
  • 1995 - Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     for Best Actor - Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
  • 1999 - European Film Award for Best Actor - Sunshine
    Sunshine (1999 film)

    Sunshine is an award-winning 1999 historical film directed, written and produced by Istv?n Szab?. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
  • 2005 - Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for his body of work as a thespian
  • 2006 - Honorary Fellowship of UCD Dramatic Society for services to theatre
  • 2007 - Spike TV's 2007 Scream Awards for Most Vile Villain - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • 2007 - The James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society
    Literary and Historical Society

    Literary and Historical Society may refer to:*Literary and Historical Society a debating society at University College Dublin, Ireland.*Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, a learned society in Quebec, Canada....
    .


Nominations
  • 1994 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Schindler's List
  • 1994 - Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Schindler's List
  • 1994 - MTV Movie Award
    MTV Movie Awards 1994

    The 1994 ceremony was hosted by Will Smith.Performers included Bon Jovi, Nate Dogg & Warren G., Toni Braxton and John Mellencamp with Me'Shell NdegeOcello....
     for Best Breakthrough Performance - Schindler's List
  • 1997 - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role - The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)

    The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
  • 1997 - BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - The English Patient
  • 1997 - Golden Globe and Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - The English Patient
  • 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award
    Screen Actors Guild Awards 1997

    The 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards were given on 8 March, 1998....
     for Outstanding Performance by a Cast - The English Patient
  • 1999 - Annie Award
    Annie Award

    The Annie Awards are presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972....
     for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production - The Prince of Egypt
    The Prince of Egypt

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  • 1999 - Razzie Award for Worst Actor - The Avengers
    The Avengers (film)

    The Avengers is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the British cult following#cult television The Avengers from the 1960s....
  • 1999 - Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (shared with Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

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    ) - The Avengers
  • 2000 - BAFTA Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - The End of the Affair
    The End of the Affair

    The End of the Affair is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films that were adapted for the screen based on the novel....
  • 2000 - Genie Award
    Genie Award

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     for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Sunshine
    Sunshine (1999 film)

    Sunshine is an award-winning 1999 historical film directed, written and produced by Istv?n Szab?. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution....
  • 2001 - ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year - The End of the Affair
  • 2003 - Saturn Award
    Saturn Award

    The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and Horror fiction in film, television, and home video....
     for Best Supporting Actor - Red Dragon
    Red Dragon (film)

    Red Dragon is a 2002 Thriller film, based on the Red Dragon written by Thomas Harris featuring psychiatrist and menacing serial killer Dr....
  • 2003 - Teen Choice Award - Choice Movie Liplock (shared with Jennifer Lopez
    Jennifer Lopez

    Jennifer Lynn Lopez , popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American Golden Globe-nominated actor, Grammy Award-nominated singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer....
    ) - Maid in Manhattan
    Maid in Manhattan

    Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film about a hotel maid and a high profile politician who fall in love, directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes....
  • 2006 - BAFTA Award - Best Actor - The Constant Gardener
  • 2006 - Annie Awards - Best Voice/Animation - Wallace & Gromit - Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  • 2006 - MTV Movie Awards - Best Villain - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • 2008 - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - The Duchess


External links

  • of Ralph Fiennes' visit to the College Historical Society