Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton - Wykeham - Fiennes (usually shortened to Ralph Fiennes, pronunciation: reɪf faɪnz; born December 22, 1962 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England) is a British actor and film director.
Family
Ralph Fiennes is the eldest son of Mark (photographer and illustrator, 1933-2004 ) and Jini Fiennes ( writer; Artist Name: Jennifer Lash; 1938-1993 ). From this marriage also came Magnus Hubert ( composer and music producer), the twins Joseph Fiennes ( also an actor - Shakespeare in Love, Luther ) and Jacob Marks ( Förster ), also the daughters Martha Maria ( director ) and Sophia Victoria (documentary director ). As a foster brother Michael Emery ( archaeologist ) grew up with them. The widely branched noble family - Wykeham - Fiennes Twisleton also belongs to the explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Fiennes is the nephew of the theology professor Nicholas Lash and great-nephew of the Benedictine Father Dom Sebastian Moore.
Fiennes and his siblings lived - by the change of occupation of the father due - at various locations in England and Ireland, and dwelt among others in West Cork.
From 1993 to 1997 Ralph Fiennes was married to actress Alex Kingston, with whom he had already attended drama school.
Between 1995 and 2006 he was associated with the British actress Francesca Annis, whom he met in a production of Hamlet ( Annis played in Hamlet's mother).
Education and Career
From a young age his artistic talent fell to his mother, who for sponsoring him and his siblings. Ralph Fiennes took in two films his sister ( Onegin and Chromophobia ) in the title role.
Ralph Fiennes began after the school first study in fine art at the Chelsea School of Art, but after a year to acting. After successfully graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was hired in 1988 by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1987 he is a member of the Royal National Theatre.
Fiennes is the stage today closely linked. He was repeatedly seen even after his international breakthrough at the stage, for example, as Shakespeare's Hamlet or in Ibsen's Brand. Often it is therefore compared with Laurence Olivier.
In the spring of 2006, he was Frank Hardy in Brian Friel's Faith Healer on stage at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, with. The successful production moved in the summer to Broadway in New York.
However, the focus of his work lies in the film industry.
The representation of the concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's List earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as the role of Laszlo Almasy in The English Patient. Fiennes penetrated into the deepest depths of the human psyche in its presentation of the murderer Goeth and the tragic lover Almasy.
His role choices range from historical figures such as TE Lawrence, Marcel Proust fictional works, such as Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, Graham Greene's The End of the 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 starred in the remake of The Avengers and melon on the side of Sean Connery and Uma Thurman with. However, the film flopped at the box office.
From the fourth part of the filming of the Harry Potter series ( Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ) took over the role of Ralph Fiennes Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter's nemesis.
In addition, Fiennes was also active as a speaker in numerous audiobook productions or as a voice actor for animated films Wallace & Gromit.
Social he is committed to UNICEF ( Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS), Wildaid and The Constant Gardener Trust.
2011 received Fiennes for Coriolanus, his feature film debut as a director, an invitation to compete in the International Film Festival of Berlin. It is a modern variant of the eponymous Shakespeare substance. In 2013 he staged with his second film The Invisible Woman.
In 2012, Fiennes played the James Bond movie Skyfall former secret agent Gareth Mallory, who is in the course of the film the new " M". Thus accepts Fiennes Judi Dench's role, the position figure they held in seven Bond films.
In the movie Grand Hotel Budapest, who received the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014, he played the lead role.
Filmography
Awards
Speaker (selection)
Ralph Fiennes has repeatedly read prose and poems for Audio media:
- Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda, Random House, 1997, ISBN 0679460985 ( condensed version, Audio Cassette )
- Love Bath Me Welcome: Songs and Poetry from the Renaissance, BIS, 2005 ( CD)
- Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient, Random House Audio, 2007 ISBN 0739343947 ( abridged version; CD)
- TS Eliot: Four Quartets, Faber & Faber, 2009, ISBN 0571249590 (CD)
German dubbing voices
Fiennes has been ( in The English Patient, Onegin, etc. - A love in St. Petersburg and Sunshine - A touch of sunshine ) at the German primarily of the mutually very similar voices of Peter Faerber ( Schindler's List ) and Udo Schenk synchronized, third Marcus Off lent him (eg in The Constant Gardener ) several times his voice.