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Ralph Fiennes (Bernard Lafferty) has twice been nominated for an Academy
Award®, for Anthony Minghella's "The English Patient" and Steven Spielberg's
"Schindler's List," both of which won the Oscar® for Best Picture. He also received
BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for "The English
Patient"; he also won the BAFTA and a Golden Globe nomination, among other honors,
for "Schindler's List."
Fiennes attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, after which he began his
professional acting career on the stage. He performed at London's Regents Park, the
Theatre Clwyd, and the Oldman Coliseum. Two years after graduating, he joined
Michael Rudman's company at the Royal National Theatre, and later joined the Royal
Shakespeare Company, where for two seasons he appeared in such plays as "Henry VI,"
"King Lear" and "Love's Labour's Lost."
An appearance on the original "Prime Suspect" miniseries, directed by
Christopher Menaul, led to his being cast by the director to portray the legendary T.E.
Lawrence in the TV movie "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia," followed by
the starring role in another TV movie, "The Cormorant." Fiennes made his feature film
debut as Heathcliff starring opposite Juliette Binoche in "Emily Bronte's Wuthering
Heights."
His subsequent films include "Quiz Show," "Strange Days," "Oscar and
Lucinda," "Onegin" (which he also executive-produced), "The End of the Affair," "The
Good Thief" (cameo), "Red Dragon," "Maid in Manhattan," "Spider," "The
Chumscrubber," "The White Countess," "Chromophobia," Robert Edwards' "Land of the
Blind" and Steve Box and Nick Park's Academy Award®-winning animated feature
"Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," contributing one of the starring
voices. He earned the European Film Award for Best Actor for Istvan Szabo's epic
"Sunshine" and a BAFTA nomination for "The Constant Gardener," appearing opposite
Rachel Weisz.
He has starred in two movies as the dreaded Lord Voldemort: Mike Newell's
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and David Yates' "Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix." Fiennes' upcoming films include "The Duchess," and "The Reader,"
starring opposite Nicole Kidman.
For the past 15 years, Fiennes has consistently alternated stage and film
performances. He starred in Jonathan Kent's Almeida Theatre staging of "Hamlet," the
subsequent Broadway engagement of which won him a Tony Award, and returned to the
Almeida for the director's staging of David Hare's modern translation of Chekhov's
"Ivanov," which was honored with an invitation to Moscow for a special weeklong run.
His other theatre credits include: "The Talking Cure," "Brand," "Julius Caesar" and
the roles of Richard II and Coriolanus in rotating repertory for the Almeida Theatre
Company. Most recently, Fiennes starred in "Faith Healer" on Broadway.
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