45-467: Crockford , Crockfords or Crockford's may refer to: People [ edit ] Alex Crockford , a Harry Potter cast member Beryl Crockford (1950–2016), British rower Douglas Crockford (born 1953), American entrepreneur and JavaScript language developer Eric Crockford (1888–1958), British field hockey player and cricketer Harold Crockford (1893–1983), English footballer John Crockford ,
90-657: A Tony Award , as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award . Fiennes made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992). His portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Steven Spielberg 's drama Schindler's List (1993) earned him a nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in
135-768: A Supporting Role . His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor . Fiennes has appeared in several other films including Quiz Show (1994), The End of the Affair (1999), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), The King's Man (2021), The Menu (2022), and Conclave (2024). He also voiced roles for
180-482: A comic actor, in 2014, Fiennes made an impression with his farcical turn as concierge Monsieur Gustave in Wes Anderson 's comedy-drama The Grand Budapest Hotel . Fiennes used his time as a young porter at London's Brown's Hotel to help construct the character. A film critic stated, "In the end it's Fiennes who makes the biggest impression. His stylised, rapid-fire delivery, dry wit and cheerful profanity keep
225-400: A job, they've got to take on an ideology, that they've got a life to lead; they've got to survive, a job to do, it's every day inch by inch, little compromises, little ways of telling yourself this is how you should lead your life and suddenly then these things can happen. I mean, I could make a judgment myself privately, this is a terrible, evil, horrific man. But the job was to portray the man,
270-515: A mid 19th century English book publisher Virginia Allen Crockford (1918–2001), American educationalist William Crockford (1775–1844), proprietor of Crockford's club, London, England Places [ edit ] Crockford's (club) , a former gentlemen's club in London, England, founded by William Crockford Crockfords (casino) , a casino in London, England Other uses [ edit ] Crockford's Clerical Directory , directory of
315-472: A parting described as "acrimonious", following rumours that he had an affair with the Romanian singer Cornelia Crisan. In 2007, Fiennes was embroiled in scandal after having sex with a Qantas flight attendant on a flight from Darwin to Mumbai . After initial denials, it was established that they had sex in the plane's lavatory, and the flight attendant's employment was terminated by Qantas. The incident
360-558: Is an English actor, film producer, and director. He graduated from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in 1985. A Shakespeare interpreter, Fiennes excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shakespeare Company . Widely regarded as one of Britain's most well-known and popular actors, he has received various accolades , including a BAFTA Award and
405-530: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alex Crockford This is a list of Harry Potter cast members who portrayed or voiced characters appearing in the film series. The list below is sorted by film and the character's surname, as some characters have been portrayed by multiple actors. Dozens of actors from the United Kingdom and Ireland portrayed or voiced characters appearing in
450-486: Is of Norman origin. He is the eldest of six children. His siblings are actor Joseph Fiennes ; director Martha Fiennes (he played the title role in her film Onegin ); composer Magnus Fiennes ; filmmaker Sophie Fiennes ; and conservationist Jacob Fiennes. His foster brother, Michael Emery, is an archaeologist. His nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin , played Tom Riddle, young Lord Voldemort , in Harry Potter and
495-467: The BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor . His portrayal of Göth also saw him listed at number 15 on the AFI 's list of the top 50 film villains . Fiennes gained weight to portray Göth, but shed it afterwards. Fiennes later stated that playing the role had a profoundly disturbing effect on him. In a subsequent interview, Fiennes recalled: Evil is cumulative. It happens. People believe that they've got to do
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#1732783780467540-738: The Coen brothers ensemble comedy film Hail, Caesar! which is set in 1950s Hollywood. Fiennes plays the fictional Laurence Laurentz, an acclaimed European film director in the movie. That same year, he lent his voice in the stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings where he played Raiden the Moon King, Kubo's grandfather. In 2017, he voiced the British butler Alfred Pennyworth in The Lego Batman Movie and reprised
585-511: The EU membership referendum in 2016 , Fiennes stated, "I'm strongly a remainer. I think that our connection with Europe, faulty as it may be in its current state...it seems to me that the point of the EU was to take down barriers of interactive trade, culture, talk dynamic between cultures, nations." In a March 2021 interview with The Daily Telegraph , Fiennes offered empathy for J. K. Rowling following
630-839: The Harry Potter film series based on the book series by J. K. Rowling . In all the films, Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter , Rupert Grint played Ron Weasley and Emma Watson played Hermione Granger . When they were cast only Radcliffe had previously acted in a film. Complementing them on screen are such actors as Helena Bonham Carter , Jim Broadbent , John Cleese , Robbie Coltrane , Warwick Davis , Ralph Fiennes , Michael Gambon , Brendan Gleeson , Richard Griffiths , Richard Harris , John Hurt , Jason Isaacs , Miriam Margolyes , Helen McCrory , Gary Oldman , Alan Rickman , Fiona Shaw , Maggie Smith , Timothy Spall , Imelda Staunton , David Thewlis , Emma Thompson , and Julie Walters , among others. Thirteen actors appeared as
675-636: The Stanislavsky Award . Fiennes was born in Ipswich , England, on 22 December 1962. He is the eldest child of Mark Fiennes (1933–2004), a farmer and photographer, and Jennifer Lash (1938–1993), a writer. He is the grandson of Maurice Fiennes , great-grandson of Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , and great-great-grandson of Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , 16th Baron Saye and Sele . His surname
720-509: The title role in Onegin , a film which he also helped produce. His sister Martha Fiennes directed, and brother Magnus composed the score. Fiennes portrayed Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film, Red Dragon , a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal . Fiennes's performance as a sympathetic serial killer with a romantic relationship with a blind girl, played by Emily Watson ,
765-485: The titular character . He followed this with The Invisible Woman (2013), where he portrayed Charles Dickens . In 1995, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Prince Hamlet in the Broadway revival of Hamlet . Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK . Fiennes is also an Honorary Associate of London Film School . For his work in front of the camera, in 2019 he received
810-663: The Anglican Communion in Britain and Ireland Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crockford . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crockford&oldid=1223875838 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
855-644: The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 , on 7 July 2011 in London . Rowling praised the film series' acting talent and announced that there are seven young Harry Potter cast members whom she refers to as "The Big Seven"; they are Radcliffe, Grint, Watson, Tom Felton , Matthew Lewis , Evanna Lynch and Bonnie Wright . This section includes characters who have appeared in a film in the series. Ralph Fiennes Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( / r eɪ f ˈ f aɪ n z / ; born 22 December 1962)
900-710: The Half-Blood Prince . The Fiennes family moved to Ireland in 1973, living in County Cork and County Kilkenny for some years. Fiennes was educated at St Kieran's College for one year, followed by Newtown School , a Quaker independent school in County Waterford . They moved to Salisbury in England, where Fiennes finished his schooling at Bishop Wordsworth's School . He studied painting at Chelsea College of Arts before deciding that acting
945-457: The Titans , a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. In 2012, he starred in the twenty-third James Bond film , Skyfall , directed by Sam Mendes . He replaced Dame Judi Dench as M in subsequent Bond films. In 2013, Fiennes was both the director and the leading actor (in the role of Charles Dickens ) in the well-received film The Invisible Woman . Though he is not commonly noted as
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#1732783780467990-650: The animated films The Prince of Egypt (1998), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). Fiennes played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus , in which he also played
1035-583: The antagonist in the Harry Potter franchise . His first appearance was in the 2005 fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . He returned to the role for three other films in the series: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011). In an interview with Empire magazine, Fiennes said his portrayal of Voldemort
1080-685: The charity. Fiennes is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival , a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres. That same year, Fiennes voiced Lord Victor Quartermaine in the 2005 stop-motion animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit . The role saw him play a cruel upper class bounder who courts Lady Tottington ( Helena Bonham Carter ) and despises Wallace & Gromit . Fiennes gained worldwide prominence for his portrayal as Lord Voldemort ,
1125-772: The difficulties of the job. In 1994, Fiennes portrayed the American academic Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show . In 1996, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the epic World War II romantic drama The English Patient , in which he starred with Kristin Scott-Thomas . Fiennes's film work has encompassed a variety of genres, including thrillers ( Spider , Strange Days ), an animated Biblical epic ( The Prince of Egypt ), camp nostalgia ( The Avengers ), romantic comedy ( Maid in Manhattan ), and historical drama ( Sunshine ). In 1999, Fiennes had
1170-438: The director Wes Anderson in the short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023), an adaptation of a short story by Roald Dahl (with Fiennes playing Dahl / The Policeman), and appeared alongside Benedict Cumberbatch , Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley . Fiennes starred on stage as Macbeth in late 2023 as part of Simon Godwin 's touring production in the UK. The play, which also starred Indira Varma as Lady Macbeth ,
1215-589: The film The White Crow . In 2019, Fiennes played the MI6 agent Norman Darbyshire in Taghi Amirani's feature documentary Coup 53 . Darbyshire, who died in 1993, was the co-author of 1953's Operation Ajax , a joint MI6-CIA military coup that overthrew democracy in Iran. In 2020, Fiennes voiced a tiger in the family fantasy adventure film Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr. In the same year, he appeared in
1260-588: The film bubbling along." For his performance, Fiennes was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor . Film magazine Empire ranked Fiennes's portrayal of Gustave as the 17th Greatest Movie Character of All Time. In 2015, Fiennes starred in Luca Guadagnino 's thriller A Bigger Splash alongside Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton . In 2016, Fiennes appeared in
1305-411: The filmmaker Sophie Fiennes , translating to the screen his production and performance of T. S. Eliot 's poem, Four Quartets . The original on-stage performance was described as "a magnificent theatrical experience" and "a poignant one-man show about a world under threat." In Sophie Fiennes' film "the lens and the screen bring a new, even more intimate, perspective". In 2023, Fiennes reunited with
1350-445: The human being. There's a sort of banality, that everydayness, that I think was important. And it was in the screenplay. In fact, one of the first scenes with Oskar Schindler , with Liam Neeson , was a scene where I'm saying, "You don't understand how hard it is, I have to order so many-so many meters of barbed wire and so many fencing posts and I have to get so many people from A to B." And, you know, he's sort of letting off steam about
1395-893: The monologue play Beat the Devil by David Hare at the Bridge Theatre in London, and then in the 2021 film version of the play. Also in 2021, he starred in the British drama film The Dig playing the Suffolk archaeologist Basil Brown alongside Carey Mulligan and Lily James . The film received positive reviews with critics praising his performance. The Guardian critic Mark Kermode described Fiennes' portrayal as having an "admirable eloquence". Later in 2021, Fiennes starred in Matthew Vaughn 's period spy film The King's Man and Cary Joji Fukunaga 's James Bond film No Time to Die . In 2021, Fiennes returned to
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1440-766: The role in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019). In 2018, he directed and starred in The White Crow , a biographical drama film about the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev . Fiennes speaks some Russian , which enabled him to play Alexander Pushkin in the film. He received the Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Tokyo International Film Festival for directing
1485-440: The same character in all eight films of the series. Some well-known British actors who have not appeared in the series were asked in jest why they had not been cast. When David Yates was directing the fifth film , Bill Nighy (who knew Yates personally) said that he hoped the director would cast him in Harry Potter . "But nobody called", Nighy added. However, in 2009, Yates cast Nighy as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in
1530-486: The seventh film. Nighy said, "I am no longer the only English actor not to be in Harry Potter and I am very pleased." Jude Law once quipped, "Nobody's asked me. I was a bit too old for Harry." He would later be cast as a younger Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald . J. K. Rowling gave a speech at the premiere of the final film in the series, Harry Potter and
1575-481: The slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani . The film received critical acclaim in particular for Fiennes and Weisz's performances. He received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role . The situation affected the cast and crew to such an extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education for children of these villages. Fiennes is a patron of
1620-564: The stage in David Hare 's latest play Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge Theatre in London. In the play, Fiennes portrays New York's legendary urban planner Robert Moses . His performance has received rave reviews with Variety declaring, "Fiennes is all boldly convincing, controlled threat, his monomania teetering on the edge of malevolence". In The Guardian ' s five star rave review, critic Mark Lawson described Fiennes' performance as "enthralling" and an "acting triumph". It
1665-880: The title role in Oedipus the King by Sophocles , at the National Theatre in London. In 2008, he played the Duke of Devonshire in the film The Duchess opposite Keira Knightley ; he also played the protagonist in The Reader , adapted from the novel of the same name alongside Kate Winslet . That same year he also appeared in Martin McDonagh 's black comedy crime thriller In Bruges starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson . In February 2009, Fiennes
1710-567: Was a success, beginning at Liverpool's The Depot in November, before moving on to Edinburgh, London, and Washington, DC. Fiennes met English actress Alex Kingston while they were both students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . After dating for ten years, they married in 1993 and divorced in 1997 following his affair with Francesca Annis . Annis and Fiennes announced their separation on 7 February 2006, after 11 years together, in
1755-721: Was an "instinctive, visceral, physical thing". In 2006, Fiennes returned to the stage in Faith Healer alongside Ian McDiarmid . The revival premiered at the Gate Theatre in Dublin before transferring to the Broadway stage at the Booth Theatre . For his performances, Fiennes received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play . In 2008, he worked with frequent collaborator director Jonathan Kent , playing
1800-485: Was announced that the production would make its New York stage debut, Off-Broadway at The Shed running from October to December in 2022. In 2022, Fiennes starred as chef Julian Slowik in the Mark Mylod -directed comedy horror The Menu . For his performance he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . Also in 2022 Fiennes collaborated with his sister,
1845-514: Was his "breakout year". He had a major role in Peter Greenaway 's film The Baby of Mâcon with Julia Ormond , which provoked controversy and was poorly received. Later that year, he became known internationally for portraying the brutal Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Göth in Steven Spielberg 's Schindler's List . For his performance in the film, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won
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1890-691: Was his true passion. Fiennes trained at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London between 1983 and 1985. He began his career at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park , and also at the National Theatre . He achieved prominence at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 when he starred as T. E. Lawrence in the British television film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia . He made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche . 1993
1935-606: Was praised. Film critic David Sterritt wrote, "Ralph Fiennes is scarily good as [Hannibal Lecter's] fellow lunatic." Fiennes voiced Jesus in The Miracle Maker (2000), a stop-motion animated film depicting the life of Jesus. In 2005, Fiennes starred in Fernando Meirelles 's The Constant Gardener , acting alongside Rachel Weisz . The film is set in Kenya . It was filmed in part with residents from
1980-668: Was referenced in the Australian sketch TV show Comedy Inc . On 7 September 2017, Fiennes was granted Serbian citizenship , signed by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić . Fiennes is a UNICEF UK ambassador and has undertaken work in India, Kyrgyzstan , Uganda, and Romania. Fiennes is also a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Fiennes opposed the UK leaving the European Union ( Brexit ). Following
2025-611: Was the special guest of the Belgrade 's Film Festival FEST . He filmed his version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (in his directorial debut) in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Fiennes reunited with Kathryn Bigelow for her Iraq War film The Hurt Locker , released in 2009, appearing as an English Private Military Contractor. They had previously worked together on Strange Days (1995). In April 2010, he played Hades in Clash of
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