December 22: Happy Birthday Ralph Fiennes

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Ralph Fiennes is turning 54 today. He began his acting career in the 1980s with the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing roles such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Edmund in King Lear. In 1995, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for starring in a Broadway revival of Hamlet. In 2011, Fiennes directed and starred in a film adaptation of Coriolanus, and won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut.

Most people know Fiennes for his distinguished film career. During the 1990s, he became known for a pair of Oscar-nominated roles (both in films which won Best Picture), for Best Supporting Actor as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List, and for Best Actor as Count László de Almássy in The English Patient:

Highlights of the last two decades of Fiennes’ career include roles in a pair of franchises, as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, and Gareth Mallory, the new M, in the two most recent James Bond films. He has also had major roles in The Constant Gardener, The Duchess, and The Grand Budapest Hotel, to name just a few.