Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#523
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ralph Fiennes represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Ralph is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ralph Fiennes appears in 62 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ralph. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nia DaCosta, Francis Lawrence, Danny Boyle and others, Ralph Fiennes helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as M. Gustave · Schindler's List (1993) as Amon Goeth · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Lord Voldemort
Career snapshot
Ranked #523 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
62
1992–2026
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
Schindler's List
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Drama
35 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Duchess, In Bruges, The Hurt Locker — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Sunshine, The End of the Affair, The Prince of Egypt.
Most productive era
2010s
24 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.17 films | 6.98 films | 6.811 films | 6.99 films |
| Action | 4.51 film | — | 6.67 films | 4.73 films |
| Thriller | 4.51 film | 7.04 films | 6.67 films | 7.06 films |
| Comedy | 4.51 film | 6.84 films | 6.88 films | 6.87 films |
| Crime | — | 7.32 films | 4.31 film | — |
| Romance | 6.74 films | 6.83 films | 6.23 films | — |
| Horror | — | 7.11 film | — | 7.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Heathcliff.
Highest rated performance
1993Schindler's List
8.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The current state of the argument, as President Coriolanus Snow.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
62 of 62 films
as M. Gustave
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Amon Goeth
Directed by Steven Spielberg
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 63 titles · 71 total credits · active 1992–2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 · Dr Kelson
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026 · President Coriolanus Snow
Eugene Onegin
2026 · Director
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026 · TV · Self
28 Years Later
2025 · Dr. Ian Kelson
The Choral
2025 · Dr. Henry Guthrie
The Return
2024 · Odysseus (Ulisse) · Executive Producer
Conclave
2024 · Lawrence · Executive Producer
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2024 · Macbeth
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Roald Dahl / Policeman
Poison
2023 · Roald Dahl
The Swan
2023 · Roald Dahl
The Rat Catcher
2023 · Rat Man / Roald Dahl
The Menu
2022 · Chef Slowik
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022 · Self
The Forgiven
2022 · David Henninger
The Dig
2021 · Basil Brown
No Time to Die
2021 · M
The King's Man
2021 · Orlando Oxford · Executive Producer
Dolittle
2020 · Barry (voice)
Coup 53
2019 · Self - Actor / Norman Darbyshire
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019 · Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Official Secrets
2019 · Ben Emmerson
Holmes & Watson
2018 · James Moriarty
The defining work
#1
M. Gustave
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score9.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. M. Gustave gives Ralph Fiennes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Amon Goeth
Schindler's List (1993)
Performance score8.9
Schindler's List asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amon Goeth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
M. Gustave
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score8.7
The Grand Budapest Hotel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. M. Gustave is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Macbeth
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2024)
Performance score8.5
National Theatre Live: Macbeth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Macbeth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as M. Gustave
Start here. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest statement of what Ralph Fiennes does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ralph at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Schindler's List (1993)
Keeps the drama register of The Grand Budapest Hotel but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Schindler's List but asks for a colder reading of it.
Coup 53 (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Grand Budapest Hotel — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2024)
Same director as Coup 53, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
6 films together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Yates
Director
3 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Ralph Fiennes
Director
3 films together
Notably The White Crow
Mike Newell
Director
2 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
David Hare
Director
2 films together
Notably Page Eight
Sam Mendes
Director
2 films together
Notably Skyfall
Peter Kosminsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Wuthering Heights
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Schindler's List
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably Quiz Show
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably The English Patient
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together
Notably The Avengers
Brenda Chapman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prince of Egypt
Neil Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably The End of the Affair
István Szabó
Director
1 film together
Notably Sunshine
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dragon
Fernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together
Notably The Constant Gardener
Nick Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Stephen Daldry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Reader
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hurt Locker
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably In Bruges
Saul Dibb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duchess
Ricky Gervais
Director
1 film together
Notably Cemetery Junction
Susanna White
Director
1 film together
Notably Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Clash of the Titans
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Wrath of the Titans
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bigger Splash
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Kubo and the Two Strings
Etan Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Holmes & Watson
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Official Secrets
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably The King's Man
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Die
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Mark Mylod
Director
1 film together
Notably The Menu
Edward Berger
Director
1 film together
Notably Conclave
Uberto Pasolini
Director
1 film together
Notably The Return
Nicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Choral
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Years Later
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Edward Norton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
F. Murray Abraham
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mathieu Amalric
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adrien Brody
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Willem Dafoe
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jeff Goldblum
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jude Law
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bill Murray
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Saoirse Ronan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jason Schwartzman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
6 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Grand Budapest HotelDavid Yates
Director
3 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Ralph Fiennes
Director
3 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The White CrowMike Newell
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireSam Mendes
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SkyfallDavid Hare
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Page EightSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 8.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Schindler's ListTravis Knight
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kubo and the Two StringsMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In BrugesStephen Daldry
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReaderEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to HogwartsCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to DieKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hurt LockerBrenda Chapman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Prince of EgyptEdward Berger
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ConclaveMark Mylod
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MenuGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Official SecretsNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleNick Park
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DragonAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The English PatientFernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Constant GardenerRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quiz ShowSaul Dibb
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuchessDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Years LaterMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The King's ManMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpiderUberto Pasolini
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReturnStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleNeil Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The End of the AffairPeter Kosminsky
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wuthering HeightsRicky Gervais
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cemetery JunctionNicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ChoralIstván Szabó
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SunshineSusanna White
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nanny McPhee and the Big BangLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Bigger SplashJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clash of the TitansJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wrath of the TitansJeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AvengersEtan Cohen
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holmes & WatsonFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the ReapingSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Reader
as Michael Berg
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Schindler's List
as Amon Goeth
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ralph Fiennes has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #466 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.8 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Wes Anderson | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Charisma, Comedy | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2014–2014 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | M. Gustave — The Grand Budapest Hotel | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
34 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
35 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Lord Voldemort
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Return
as Odysseus (Ulisse)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Page Eight
as Alec Beasley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Die
as M
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
In Bruges
as Harry
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Gustave
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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