English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler’s List. He is also well known for his portrayals of infamous villains, such as Nazi war criminal Amon Goth in Schindler’s List, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, and Lord Voldermort in the Harry Potter film series. Most recently, he appeared in The Reader (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009) and as Hades in Clash of The Titans (2010). He won a Tony Award has been nominated twice fo Academy Awards. He is also a UNICEF UK ambassador. Fiennes trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his career at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park and, also during the late 1980s, the National Theatre before becoming a star in the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche, for which he received substantial acclaim and praise throughout Europe. 1993 was his “breakout year”. He had a major role in the controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of Mâcon with Julia rmond, which was poorly received. Later that year he became known internationally for portraying the amoral Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goth in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. For this he was nominated for the Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor. He did not win the Oscar, but did win the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for the role. In 1994, he portrayed American academic Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. In 1996 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the World War II epic romance The English Patient in which he starred with Kristin Scott-Thomas. Fiennes’ work has ranged from thrillers (Red Dragon) to animated Biblical epic (The Prince of Egypt) to campy nostalgia (The Avengers) to romantic comedy Maid In Manhattan to offbeat dramedy Oscar and Lucinda and historical drama (Sunshine). The Constant Gardener was released in 2005 with Fiennes in the title role. The film is set in Kenya, dealing in part with poor people in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani. The situation affected the crew to the extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education for children of these villages. Fiennes is a patron of the charity. Fiennes portrayed Lord Voldermort in the 2005 fantasy film Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. He kept the role for both Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2.
Fiennes’ 2006 performance in the play Faith Healer gained him a nomination for a 2007 Tony Award. In 2008, Fiennes worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kentt to play the title role in Sophocles’ Oedipus The King at the National Theatre in London. In 2008, he played the Duke of Devonshire in the film The Duchesss, and played the protagonist in The Reader.
Fiennes reunited with Kathryn Bigelow for her Iraq War opus, The Hurt Locker, released in 2009, appearing as an English mercenary. In April 2010, he played Hades, in Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 film of the same name.
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