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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, born 22 December 1962, is an English actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre.

Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.

Since then, Fiennes has been in The End of the Affair (1999), Red Dragon (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011), in which he played Lord Voldemort, The Reader (2008), and Clash of the Titans (2010). In 2012, Fiennes played Gareth Mallory and later M in the James Bond film Skyfall and Magwitch in Great Expectations.

In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.

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 * [[Fifty Years on Stage]]
 * [[Turks & Caicos]]
+* [[Salting the Battlefield]]
+* [[Rev.]]
 * [[The Grand Budapest Hotel]]
+* [[Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts]]
 * [[Two Women]]
+* [[National Theatre Live: Man and Superman]]
 * [[A Bigger Splash]]
 * [[World of Espionage]]