And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

Personal life
Fiennes is a UNICEF UK ambassador and has done work in India Kyrgyzstan Uganda and Romania. 1993 was his "breakout year". Later that year he became known internationally for portraying the amoral Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Göth in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.

A noted Shakespeare interpreter he first achieved success onstage in the Royal National Theatre. In 2012 Fiennes played Gareth Mallory in the James Bond film Skyfall and Magwitch in Great Expectations. Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) better known as Ralph Fiennes (pron.