Ralph Fiennes Net Worth

Ralph Fiennes's Quotes

• It's 'Rafe', actually.
• When children were introduced to Lord Voldemort, they looked suitably terrified. Which gave me great gratification.
• As an actor, a part of you expects to be looked at. A part of you wants to be looked at. But when I'm playing a part, in my imagined world, I feel I'm not me. I may be using bits of me, but I love the sense that I'm being someone else.
• Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
• The process of making a film is a mad lottery. Whenever you get the feeling that you're making something special, you have to quickly squash it because you are so often proved wrong.

Interesting Facts about Ralph Fiennes

1. Name rhymes with "Safe Signs".
2. Ranked #34 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
3. Of the roughly one dozen actors to play "Hamlet" on Broadway, he is the first to win a Tony Award for doing so, in the 1995 Almeida Theatre production directed by Jonathan Kent.
4. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#33). [1995]
5. On 3 March 2001, he received the William Shakespeare Award from the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. Past recipients include Mel Gibson, Patrick Stewart, Lynn Redgrave, Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline.
6. His uncle, Nicholas Lash, is a former priest and Cambridge theology professor, and his great-uncle, Dom Patrick Moore, is a Benedictine monk.
7. (1995 - 2006) Partner Francesca Annis.
8. Gained several pounds of muscle for his role in Red Dragon (2002).
9. His performance as Amon Goeth from his film Schindler's List (1993) was ranked #15 on the American Film Institute's Villains list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
10. Is the oldest of 6 children - younger siblings; Martha Fiennes (b. 1964), Magnus Fiennes (b. 1965), Sophie Fiennes (b. 1967) and Jacob Mark Fiennes & Joseph Fiennes (b. 27 May 1970). He also has a foster brother, Michael Emery (b. 31 December 1952) who has been with the family since he was 11.
11. An Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
12. He and his The End of the Affair (1999) co-star Julianne Moore have acted in separate Hannibal Lecter films: he in Red Dragon (2002) and she in Hannibal (2001).
13. His tattoo in Red Dragon (2002) took eight hours to apply.
14. Has appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) with Gary Oldman. Both of them have played villains in the Hannibal Lecter films: Fiennes played Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon (2002), and Oldman played Mason Verger in Hannibal (2001).
15. 4th cousin of Lord Saye & Sele, owner of Broughton Castle, which appears in Shakespeare in Love (1998) as Viola's house.
16. 8th cousin of Prince Charles.
17. Fiennes was reluctant to take the role of Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). In a television interview on AMC's Sunday Morning Shootout (2003) (November 20, 2005), he claimed to have been unimpressed with the previous three Harry Potter films. Fiennes was apparently nonplussed at the idea of appearing in the fourth film of a series and stated that he had "never bought into [the] world" of Harry Potter. Family members urged him to take the role while other friends counseled against it. He eventually changed his mind after Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell showed Fiennes preproduction conceptions of what the character of Voldemort might look like: "The little kid in me that likes to dress up and be bad went 'Yeah! I want to do it!'".
18. He was considered for the role of Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code (2006), which went to Tom Hanks.
19. Broke up with Francesca Annis [February 7, 2006].
20. Has appeared in three Best Picture winners (Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996) and The Hurt Locker (2008)), and a Best Animated Feature winner (The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)).