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Ralph Fiennes Paddock Suite, The Courtyard, 55 Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 6HA p: + 44 (0) 20 73360351 e: [email protected] Phone: + 44 (0) 20 73360351 Email: [email protected] Ralph Fiennes Eye Colour: Black Film Feature Film, Moriarty, Holmes & Watson, Etan Cohen, Columbia Pictures Feature Film, Alfed Pennyworth (Voice), The LEGO Batman Movie, DC Entertainment, Chris McKay Feature Film, Moon King (Voice), Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika Entertainment, Travis Knight Feature Film, M, Spectre, B24, Columbia Pictures, Sam Mendes Feature Film, Mikhail, Two Women, Horosho Productions, Vera Glagoleva Feature Film, A Bigger Splash, Canal, Luca Guadagnino Feature Film, Mr Gustave, Grand Budapest Hotel, American Empirical Pictures, Wes Anderson Feature Film, Charles Dickens, The Invisible Woman, BBC Films, Ralph Fiennes Feature Film, Magwitch, Great Expectations, BBC Films, Mike Newell Feature Film, Gareth Mallory, Skyfall (Bond 23), Eon Productions, Sam Mendes Feature Film, Hades, Clash of The Titans 2, Warner Brothers, Jonathan Liebesman Feature Film, Alec Beasley, Page 8, BBC Films, David Hare Feature Film, Coriolanus, Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes Feature Film, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I & II, Warner Brothers, David Yates Feature Film, Mr Kendrick, Cemetery Junction, Sony, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant Feature Film, Hades, Clash of the Titans, Warner Brothers, Louis Leterrier Feature Film, Lord Gray, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Universal, Susanna White Feature Film, Michael Berg, The Reader, Stephen Daldry Feature Film, Duke of Devonshire, The Duchess, Saul Dibb Feature Film, Contractor Team Leader, Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow Feature Film, Harry, In Bruges, Martin McDonagh Feature Film, Lord Voldamort, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Pheonix, David Yates Feature Film, Bernard Lafferty, Bernard And Doris, Bob Balabow Feature Film, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Mike Newell Feature Film, Stephen Tulloch, Chromophobia, Martha Fiennes Feature Film, Joe, Land Of The Blind, Robert Edwards Feature Film, Michael Ebbs, The Chumscrubber, Arie Posin Feature Film, Justin Quayle, The Constant Gardener, Fernando Mirelles Feature Film, Jackson, The White Countess, James Ivory Feature Film, Lord Victor Quatermaine, Wallace And Grommit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, Steve Box/Nick Park Feature Film, Maid In Manhattan Feature Film, Red Dragon Film, Voice Of Jesus, The Miracle Maker, Derek W. Hayes/Stanislav Sokolov Feature Film, Dennis 'Sider' Cleg, Spider, David Cronenberg Feature Film, Tony Angel, The Good Thief, Neil Jordan Feature Film, The End Of The Affair Film, Ignatz Sonnenscheil/Adam Sors/Ivan Sors, Sunshine, Istvan Szabo Feature Film, Eugene Onegin, Onegin Feature Film, The Avengers, Warner Brothers Feature Film, Oscar And Lucinda, Gillian Armstrong Feature Film, The English Patient, Saul Zaentz Ralph Fiennes 1/2 Feature Film, Strange Days, 20th Century Fox Feature Film, Quiz Show, Robert Redford Feature Film, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg Stage Stage, Jack Tanner, Man & Superman, National Theatre, Simon Godwin Stage, Richard III, Richard III, Almeida Theatre, Rupert Goold Stage, Prospero, The Tempest, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Trevor Nunn Stage, Halvard Solness, The Master Builder, Old Vic Theatre, Matthew Warchus Stage, Oedipus, Oedipus, National Theatre, Jonathan Kent Stage, Man, First Love, The Gate Theatre for Lincoln Centre Festival NY, Michael Colgan Stage, Alain, God of Carnage, David Pugh Ltd, Matthew Warchus Stage, Man, First Love, The Gate Theatre for the Sydney Fesival, Michael Colgan Stage, Frank Hardy, The Faith Healer, Dublin Gate Theatre And Broadway, Jonathan Kent Stage, Mark Anthony, Julius Caesar, Barbican, Deborah Warner Stage, Brand, RSC And Stanhope Productions, Adrian Noble Stage, Ivanov, Almeida Theatre, London Stage, Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, London And Broadway Stage, Lewis The Dauphin, King John, Royal Shakespeare Company, Deborah Warner Stage, Edmund, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company, Nicholas Hytner Stage, Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, Terry Hands Stage, Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Di Trevis Stage, Richard, Richard II, Jonathan Kent Stage, Ghost Of Henry, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, Di Trevis Stage, Bert Jefferson, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Royal Shakespeare Company, Gene Saks Stage, Henry VI, The Plantagenets; Henry VI-Parts I And II, Royal Shakespeare Company, Adrian Noble Stage, Himself, The Play Wot I Wrote, Kenneth Brannagh Stage, Carl Gustav Jung, The Talking Cure, Royal National Theatre, Howard Davies Stage, Troilus, Troilus And Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sam Mendes Powered by Spotlight and Tagmin The information in this CV has been provided by or on behalf of the client concerned via Spotlight.com. 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