Ralph Fiennes

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Ralph Fiennes (2013)

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , usually shortened to Ralph Fiennes ([ ˈɹɛɪf ˈfaɪnz ]; born December 22, 1962 in Ipswich , Suffolk , England ), is a British actor and film director .

His best-known roles include the portrayal of Amon Göth in Schindler's List , Count László Almásy in The English Patient , Lord Voldemort , the antagonist in the Harry Potter film series and since 2012 as the fifth actor, the embodiment of " M ", the director of MI6 in the James Bond films .

Fiennes has also had Serbian citizenship since 2017 .

Life

family

Ralph Fiennes is the eldest son of the photographer and illustrator Mark Fiennes (1933–2004) and the writer Jennifer Lash (1938–1993). From this marriage came Magnus (composer and music producer), the twins Joseph Fiennes (also actor - Shakespeare in Love , Luther ) and Jacob Mark (forester), as well as the daughters Martha Maria (director) and Sophia Victoria (documentary film director). He is the grandson of the industrialist Maurice Fiennes . Michael Emery (archaeologist) (* 1952) grew up with them as a foster brother. The explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes also belongs to the extensive aristocratic family Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes . Fiennes is nephew of the theology professor Nicholas Lash and great-nephew of the Benedictine Father Dom Sebastian Moore. Fiennes and his siblings lived - due to the father's change of occupation - in different places in England and Ireland and lived in West Cork , among others .

From 1993 to 1997 Ralph Fiennes was married to actress Alex Kingston - they went to drama school together. Between 1995 and 2006, Fiennes was in a relationship with the British actress Francesca Annis , whom he met in a Hamlet production in which she played Hamlet's mother.

Education and career

Ralph Fiennes at the presentation of his film Coriolanus at the Berlinale 2011

At a young age his mother noticed his artistic talent, who encouraged him and his siblings intensively. Ralph Fiennes starred in two of his sister's films ( Onegin and Chromophobia ).

After leaving school, Ralph Fiennes began studying fine arts at the Chelsea School of Art , but switched to acting after a year. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , he was hired by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988 . Since 1987 he has been a member of the Royal National Theater . Fiennes is closely connected to the stage to this day. Even after his international breakthrough, he was seen on stage several times, for example as Shakespeare's Hamlet or in Ibsen's Brand . He is therefore often compared to Laurence Olivier . In spring 2006 he appeared as Frank Hardy in Brian Friel's Faith Healer on the stage of the Gate Theater, Dublin . The successful production moved to Broadway in New York in the summer. In 2011 he played Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Theater Royal Haymarket . In 2016 he played the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III in London . at the Almeida Theater , where he had previously played Hamlet (1995), Richard II (2000) and Coriolanus (2010).

The focus of his work, however, is in the film sector. The depiction of the concentration camp commandant Amon Göth in Schindler's list earned him an Oscar nomination, as did the role of Laszlo Almasy in The English Patient . His choice of roles ranges from historical figures such as TE Lawrence and Marcel Proust to film adaptations. B. Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient , Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda , Graham Greenes The End of an Affair , Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin , morally questionable people (or villains) ( quiz show , Red Dragon ) to romantic heroes like in Maid in Manhattan . In 1998 he worked in the remake of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone on the side of Sean Connery and Uma Thurman . However, the film flopped at the box office. From the fourth part of the film adaptation of the Harry Potter series ( Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ) Ralph Fiennes took on the role of Lord Voldemort , Harry Potter's archenemy.

In addition, Fiennes was also a speaker in numerous audio book productions and voice actor in cartoons such as The Prince of Egypt , The Man of 1000 Miracles or for the stop-motion cartoon Wallace & Gromit - On the hunt for the giant rabbit .

He is socially committed to UNICEF (Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS) , Wildaid and The Constant Gardener Trust .

In 2011 Fiennes received an invitation to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival for Coriolanus , his feature film debut as a director . This is a modern interpretation of the Shakespeare play of the same name . In 2013 he directed his second film, The Invisible Woman .

In 2012, Fiennes played former secret agent Gareth Mallory in the James Bond film Skyfall , who becomes the new " M " as the film progresses . This role played by Fiennes thus takes on the position of Judi Dench's character, which she held in a total of seven Bond films. In 2015 he took on the role again in James Bond 007: Specter and 2020 in James Bond 007: No Time to Die .

Fiennes played the leading role in the film Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), which received the Silver Bear at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival . In 2014, he played the role of Rakitin in a Russian film adaptation of the play A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, directed by Vera Glagoleva .

In 2018 his third directorial work, Nureyev - The White Crow , was published, which is based on a biography of the dancer Rudolf Chametowitsch Nureyev . Fiennes himself took on the role of Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin .

theatre

Fiennes, who has played theater since his school days, began his professional career in 1985 at the Open Air Theater in London's Regent's Park with a supporting role in Shakespeare's comedy What You Want . He has become famous as a Shakespeare actor since his engagements at the Royal National Theater and as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . Until his first feature film in 1991, he only played theater. Fiennes has appeared on the stage repeatedly throughout his career, the last time in 2018 at the Royal National Theater as Antonius in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra .

year title role Director Venue
1985 What You Will ( William Shakespeare ) Curio Richard Digby Day New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theater in Regent's Park , London
1985 A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare) Cobweb Toby Robertson New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theater in Regent's Park, London
New Shakespeare Company's European tour
1986 A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare) Lysander David Conville and
Emma Freud 		Open Air Theater in Regent's Park, London
New Shakespeare Company's European Tour
1986 Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) Romeo Declan Donallan New Shakespeare Company - Open Air Theater in Regent's Park, London
1987 Six people are looking for an author ( Luigi Pirandello ) son Michael Rudman National Theater's Olivier Theater , London
1987 Fathers and Sons (after Ivan Turgenev ) Arkadi Kirsanov Michael Rudman National Theater's Lyttelton Theater , London
1988 Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare) Claudio Di Trevis Royal Shakespeare Theater , Stratford-upon-Avon
1988/89 The Plantagenets: Henry VI , The Rise of Edward IV,
Richard III His Death (William Shakespeare) 		Henry IV.,
Spirit of Henry IV. 		Adrian Noble Royal Shakespeare Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon
Barbican Theater , London
1989 King John (William Shakespeare) dauphin Deborah Warner The Other Place Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Pit Theater , London
1989 The Man Who Came for Dinner
( Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman ) 		Bert Jefferson Gene Saks The Royal Shakespeare Company - Barbican Theater, London
1989 Playing with Trains ( Stephen Poliakoff ) Ron Daniels The Royal Shakespeare Company - The Pit Theater, London
1990 Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare) Troilus Sam Mendes The Royal Shakespeare Company - Swan Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon
1990 King Lear (William Shakespeare) Edmund Nicholas Hytner The Royal Shakespeare Company - Royal Shakespeare Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon
1991 Lost Labor (William Shakespeare) King of Navarre Terry Hands Royal Shakespeare Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon
1995 Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Hamlet Jonathan Kent Almeida Theater , London
Belasco Theater , Broadway , New York; Tony Award for Best Actor
1997 Ivanov (Anton Chekhov) Ivanov Jonathan Kent Almeida Theater, London
Maly Theater , Moscow
2000 Coriolanus (William Shakespeare) Coriolanus Jonathan Kent Almeida Theater - Gainsborough Film Studios in Shoreditch, London,
Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Theater; Brooklyn, New York City
2000 Richard II (William Shakespeare) Richard II Jonathan Kent Almeida Theater - Gainsborough Film Studios in Shoreditch, London,
Brooklyn Academy of Music - Harvey Theater; Brooklyn, New York City
2001 The Play What I Wrote (Hamish McCollu et al.) Sir Ralph Fiennes Kenneth Branagh Wyndham's Theater , West End, London
2003 The Talking Cure (The method)
( Christopher Hampton ) 		CG Jung Howard Davies Royal National Theater ’s Cottesloe Theater, London
2003 Brand (Henrik Ibsen) fire Adrian Noble The Royal Shakespeare Company - Swan Theater , Stratford-upon-Avon
Theater Royal Haymarket , London
2005 Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) Mark Antony Deborah Warner Barbican Center , London, European tour, u. a. Théatre de la danse Chaillot
2006 Faith Healer ( Brian Friel ) Frank Hardy Jonathan Kent Gate Theater Dublin
Booth Theater, Broadway, New York City
2007 First Love (after Samuel Beckett ) monologue Michael Colgan Sydney Festival
2008 The god of slaughter ( Yasmina Reza ) Alan Reille Matthew Warchus Gielgud Theater , West End, London
2008 King Oedipus ( Sophocles ) Oedipus Jonathan Kent Royal National Theater, London
2011 The Storm (William Shakespeare) Prospero Trevor Nunn Theater Royal Haymarket , London
2015 Man and Superman ( GB Shaw ) Jack Firs Simon Godwin Royal National Theater, London
2016 Builder Solness ( Henrik Ibsen ) Halvard Solness Matthew Warchus Old Vic Theater , London
2016 Richard III (William Shakespeare) Richard Rupert Goold Almeida Theater , London
Brijuni Ulysses Theater, Brioni , Croatia
2018 Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare) Antony Simon Godwin Royal National Theater

Filmography

As an actor

As a director

As a speaker

Awards

Fiennes at the 2006 Tony Awards ceremony

Ralph Fiennes has been awarded 41 prizes and has received two Oscar nominations and a further 103 nominations.

  • 1993: Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: Nomination - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Schindler's List
  • 1994: Nomination - MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough on Schindler's List
  • 1995: Tony Award for Best Actor for Hamlet
  • 1996: Saturn Award nomination for best leading actor for Strange Days
  • 1997: Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for best leading actor for The English Patient
  • 1997: BAFTA nomination for best leading actor for The English Patient
  • 1996: Nomination- Satellite Award for Best Actor for The English Patient
  • 1996: Nomination - Screen Actors Guild Award for the best ensemble for The English Patient
  • 1996: Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor for The English Patient
  • 1996: Nomination-Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for The English Patient
  • 1999: Golden Raspberry nominations as worst actor and worst screen couple (with Uma Thurman ) for Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone
  • 2000: BAFTA nomination for Best Actor for The End of an Affair
  • 2000: European Film Award for Best Actor for A Touch of Sunshine
  • 2005: British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for The Eternal Gardener
  • 2005: BAFTA nomination for best leading actor for The Eternal Gardener
  • 2006: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor for The Ever Gardener
  • 2006: Tony Award nomination for Best Actor for Faith Healer
  • 2009: Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Duchess
  • 2009: Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for Bernard and Doris
  • 2009: British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Duchess
  • 2011: BAFTA nomination Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Coriolanus
  • 2014: Denver Film Critics Society for Best Actor for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Indiana Film Journalists Association as Best Actor for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Nomination-Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Comedy for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Nomination-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Nomination-San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2014: Nomination-Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Grand Budapest Hotel
  • 2015: Empire Awards - Empire Legend
  • 2018: Evening Standard Theater Award for Antonius and Cleopatra , together with Sophie Okonedo
  • 2018: European Film Award - Best European Performance in World Cinema
  • 2019: CineMerit Award

Speaker (selection)

Ralph Fiennes has read prose and poems for audio media several times:

German dubbing voices

Fiennes is mostly spoken of in the German dubbed versions of his films by Udo Schenk , who first took on this role in 1993 for Der Todesvogel . Other speakers who dubbed Fiennes in more than one film are Marcus Off ( The Eternal Gardener , Happiness in Small Doses , Land of the Blind ) and Tobias Meister ( Strange Days , The End of an Affair ). He is spoken by the Austrian Peter Faerber in the film Schindler's List , which is important for his career .

Web links

Commons : Ralph Fiennes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ It's Pronounced Rafe Fines , on ew.com
  2. ↑ "It's Raiph actually" . The Guardian, accessed January 20, 2015
  3. ↑ “Lord Voldemort” becomes an honorary Serbian citizen. In: Welt.de. September 24, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Review in The Hollywood Reporter , September 24, 2014, accessed October 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ralph Fiennes Taking His London Ivanov to Moscow Playbill March 10, 1997, accessed October 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b theater; Two Power Plays By Shakespeare, One Ralph Fiennes , The New York Times, September 3, 2000, accessed October 31, 2016
  7. ^ Julius Caesar , Theater online, accessed October 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ Ralph Fiennes, Portraying the Gaunt Genius in 'Faith Healer' , The New York Times, May 5, 2006, accessed November 1, 2016
  9. ^ First Love , Variety, January 21, 2007, accessed November 1, 2016
  10. ↑ The Dubrovnik Times August 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016
  11. ↑ Evening Standard Theater Awards 2018: Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo take home top acting prizes , on standard.co.uk/
  12. ↑ EFA Honors Ralph Fiennes . Article dated October 16, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018.
  13. ↑ Munich Film Festival: The ingeniously calm man: Ralph Fiennes receives CineMerit Award . Article dated May 14, 2019, accessed May 14, 2019.
  14. ^ Ralph Fiennes: Audiobooks, audio cassettes and audio CDs
  15. ↑ Ralph Fiennes. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  16. ^ Schindler's list in the synchronized files
personal data
SURNAME Fiennes, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Ralph Nathaniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich , Suffolk , England