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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes
Born in 1962 in Ipswich, Ralph Fiennes joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988 and appeared in TV series "Prime Suspect". He went on to star in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler List", establishing his position in Hollywood. He has since starred in a number of films, not least of which has been in the Harry Potter series as the evil Lord Voldermort, and is quoted as saying, "When children were introduced to Lord Voldemort, they looked suitably terrified. Which gave me great gratification."



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Ralph Fiennes - news / articles


  • Fiennes to reunite with Scott Thomas for Dickens movie - 8 February 2012
    -Ralph Fiennes is set to reteam with his The English Patient co-star Kristin Scott Thomas for a new movie about Charles Dickens.-The actor will step behind the camera to make The Invisible Woman, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's book about the novelist's secret mistre


  • Fiennes thrilled by Bond role - 15 January 2012
    -Ralph Fiennes can't wait for film fans to see him in the next James Bond movie - because it will become clear why he couldn't turn the role down.-The thespian admits he was a huge fan of Ian Fleming's 007 adventures when he was growing up and was thrilled when directo


  • Young's cameo cut from Fiennes movie - 5 January 2012
    -Will Young's cameo appearance in Ralph Fiennes' new movie Coriolanus has been cut from the film because the singer "stood out for all the wrong reasons".-The Leave Right Now hitmaker has previously made a foray into acting, appearing opposite Bob Hoskins and Dame Judi

Ralph Fiennes - what members say


  • Schindler's List
  • Schindler's List review by TrevorBevan from Gloucestershire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Whosoever saves one life 18 May 2004
    ...tune turns to bankruptcy as the Commandant of the concentration camp, played by Ralph Fiennes, further illustrates the depravity of the Nazi system when Schindler slowly win...   Read customer review
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 24 November 2005
    ...There are fine cameos from Gary Oldman (in the best of many excellent effects), Ralph Fiennes, Timothy Spall and Shirley Henderson and an enjoyable turn as new teacher 'Mad ...   Read customer review

Ralph Fiennes - filmography


  • Skyfall on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Judi Dench,  Javier Bardem
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 6,045 members
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  • Great Expectations on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter,  Ralph Fiennes,  Jeremy Irvine
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Young orphan Pip (Toby Irvine) finds his life changed forever soon after encountering and lending assistance to escaped convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) on the marshlands near his home. Later, after being summoned to attend the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 946 members
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  • Coriolanus - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Brian Cox,  Gerard Butler,  Jessica Chastain
    Director: Ralph Fiennes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut is an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the tribulations of a banished hero. Transposing the action from ancient Rome to present-day Eastern Europe, the film tells the story of General Caius Martius Coriolanus (Fiennes) who returns home from war to find ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 3,096 members
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  • Page 8 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Andrew Cleaver,  Richard Lintern
    Director: David Hare
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Made-for-TV intelligence thriller starring Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Long-serving MI5 officer Johnny Worricker (Nighy)'s life is thrown into turmoil when his friend and superior, Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon), dies in mysterious circumstances. As well as dealing with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 422 members
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  • Clash of the Titans - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Alexa Davalos,  Liam Neeson,  Sam Worthington
    Director: Louis Leterrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Big-budget adventure remake based loosely on the Greek myth of Perseus, who is played here by Sam Worthington. Perseus is the son of the King of the Gods, Zeus (Liam Neeson), but is raised as a man. When Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the God of the underworld, threatens to seize power from Zeus, Perseus ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 14,383 members
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  • Cemetery Junction on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hughes,  Jack Doolan,  Felicity Jones
    Director: Ricky Gervais,  Stephen Merchant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's feature-film directorial début, Cemetery Junction centres on three men working at an insurance firm in 1970's England. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 30,534 members
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  • Clash of the Titans on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Louis Leterrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    In "Clash of the Titans," the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 47,107 members
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  • The Wildest Dream on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Conrad Anker,  Hugh Dancy,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Anthony Geffen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 262 members
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  • The Duchess - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Aidan McArdle,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Saul Dibb
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Sumptuous historical drama starring Keira Knightley as eighteenth century aristocrat Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, who was known for her glamorous and extravagant lifestyle. Married at a young age to the older Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes), Georgiana becomes a fashion icon and a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,901 members
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  • The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Brian Geraghty,  Evangeline Lilly,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tense and gritty war film from director Kathryn Bigelow, following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. Having to look death in the face daily, the soldiers of an elite ordnance disposal team struggle to accept their new sergeant, William James (Jeremy Renner), when he risks ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 25,819 members
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  • The Duchess on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Ralph Fiennes,  Hayley Atwell
    Director: Saul Dibb
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Like her direct descendent Princess Diana, Georgina Duchess of Devonshire was a glamorous royal, much loved by the public. While her attractiveness and charm afforded her popularity, the intelligent and vulnerable Duchess was trapped within a loveless marriage to one of the country's richest men. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 47,158 members
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  • The Hurt Locker on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jeremy Renner,  Anthony Mackie,  Brian Geraghty
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 97,340 members
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  • Bernard And Doris on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Peter Asher,  Monique Gabriela Curnen,  Marilyn
    Director: Bob Balaban
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bob Balaban directs this fictional drama based on the real-life relationship between uber-rich tobacco heiress Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) and her gay Irish butler Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Fiennes), to whom she left the lion's share of her massive fortune. After dismissing her former butler on a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 240 members
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  • Land Of The Blind on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Donald Sutherland,  Ralph Fiennes,  Tom Hollander
    Director: Robert Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A satirical and timely war thriller about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,628 member
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  • White Countess on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Madeleine Potter,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,747 members
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  • The Constant Gardener (2005)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Rachel Weisz,  Danny Huston
    Director: Fernando Meirelles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hard-hitting political thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre, and the first English-speaking feature from director Fernando Meirelles. When political activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning performance) is found brutally murdered in Kenya, her widowed husband, unassuming ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 85,565 members
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  • Red Dragon - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) returns in his third film outing (based on the first Thomas Harris novel which introduced the character). FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) has retired with his family to Florida after a near-death experience when he tracked down and captured Lecter. However, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,021 member
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  • Spider on DVD (2002)
    Starring: John Neville,  Miranda Richardson,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Spider is set in the East End London in the 1960s and '80's. A deeply disturbed boy, Spider, 'sees' his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne. Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,357 members
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  • Red Dragon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case. But he soon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 21,963 members
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  • Maid In Manhattan on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Stanley Tucci
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo to her friends) stars in this romantic comedy as Marisa Ventura, a single mother who works as a maid in one of New York's top hotels, but has aspirations to do better. Holding her back is her mother (Priscilla Lopez), who thinks she should accept who and what she is and leave ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 19,963 members
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  • Miracle Maker on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Anton Lesser,  Rebecca Callard,  Ian Holm
    Director: Stanislav Sokolov,  Derek W. Hayes
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This film uses a mix of 3D model and 2D animation to tell the story of Christ through the eyes of a child. In ancient Israel, young Tamar (voiced by Rebecca Callard) meets Jesus (Ralph Fiennes), a carpenter, whose ability to perform miracles and teachings on God draw a band of loyal followers ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 397 members
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  • The End of the Affair on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Bolam,  Jason Isaacs,  Sam Bould
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In 1946, novelist Maurice Bendix (Ralph Fiennes) encounters civil servant Henry Miles (Stephen Rea) on Clapham Common, and recalls how years earlier he had a passionate affair with Henry's wife, Sarah (Julianne Moore), which ended suddenly and without explanation. Henry was unaware of the affair at ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,256 members
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  • Onegin on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Francesca Annis,  Lena Headey,  Martin Donovan
    Director: Martha Fiennes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's classic novel stars Ralph Fiennes in the title role and is directed by Fiennes' sister Martha. Disillusioned with life in St. Petersburg, Onegin moves to a country estate he has inherited. As he attempts to fit in with the rural community, he is surprised by a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,870 member
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  • The Avengers on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Sean Connery,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Big screen spin-off of the cult 1960s television series. When weather control device the Prospero Shield fails, secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) is sent to investigate by his superior, Mother (Jim Broadbent). Steed at first suspects scientist Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), who has been filmed ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 2,489 members
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  • Oscar And Lucinda on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Ciarán Hinds,  Cate Blanchett
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A priest (Ralph Fiennes) likes to gamble his money and then donate all his winnings to the poor. However, when he meets and falls in love with an Australian heiress (Cate Blanchett) during a game of cards, their lives become entwined and changed forever.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,466 member
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  • Strange Days on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Glenn Plummer,  Vincent D'Onofrio,  Richard Edson
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a squid, a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people's thoughts, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,959 members
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  • Quiz Show on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Turturro,  Rob Morrow,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Robert Redford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to take a dive and allow Charles Van Doren (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,041 members
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  • Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts,..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 83,774 members
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  • Wuthering Heights on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Demeger,  Juliette Binoche,  Janet McTeer
    Director: Peter Kosminsky
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cathy Earnshaw (Juliette Bincoche) and her adoptive brother Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes) became inseparable as children, and now share a forbidden passion in adulthood. However, Heathcliff is cast down to the level of a servant by Cathy's vengeful brother, Hindley (Jeremy Northam), who resents the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,973 members
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  • Prime Suspect 1 on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Tom Bell,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Called in to head a murder enquiry, D.C.I. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is immediately confronted by hostility and aggression from her male colleagues. With her strength of character and skills as a detective continually tested to the limit, she exposes a far-reaching cover-up within the force. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,377 members
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Ralph Fiennes facts

5 most recent films

Skyfall - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Skyfall - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - 3.0 stars
Great Expectations - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Coriolanus - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Schindler's List - 4.0 stars
In Bruges - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Harry Potter Goblet of fire - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Skyfall - 4.0 stars
Skyfall - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Schindler's List - Blu-ray - 5.0 stars
The Avengers - 2.0 stars
Land Of The Blind - 2.5 stars
Coriolanus - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Coriolanus - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robbie Coltrane - 10 times - show films
Helen Mirren - 10 times - show films
John Benfield - 9 times - show films
Tom Bell - 9 times - show films
Zoe Wanamaker - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Yates - 10 times - show films
Christopher Menaul - 9 times - show films
Mike Newell - 7 times - show films
Kathryn Bigelow - 5 times - show films
Anthony Minghella - 5 times - show films