Biografia

When he noticed that children watching the filming were scared of him as "Lord Voldemort" in Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo (2005), he knew he had the character right.

8th cousin of King Charles III.

His nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, played the 11-year-old version of his character Tom Riddle a.k.a. "Lord Voldemort" in Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (2009).

Fiennes was reluctant to take the role of Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo (2005). In a television interview on AMC's Sunday Morning Shootout (2003) (November 20, 2005), he claimed to have been unimpressed with the previous three Harry Potter films. Fiennes was apparently nonplussed at the idea of appearing in the fourth film of a series and stated that he had "never bought into [the] world" of Harry Potter. Family members urged him to take the role while other friends counseled against it. He eventually changed his mind after Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell showed Fiennes preproduction conceptions of what the character of Voldemort might look like: "The little kid in me that likes to dress up and be bad went 'Yeah! I want to do it!'".

Friends with Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson.

It's 'Rafe', actually.

When children were introduced to Lord Voldemort, they looked suitably terrified. Which gave me great gratification.

As an actor, a part of you expects to be looked at. A part of you wants to be looked at. But when I'm playing a part, in my imagined world, I feel I'm not me. I may be using bits of me, but I love the sense that I'm being someone else.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

The process of making a film is a mad lottery. Whenever you get the feeling that you're making something special, you have to quickly squash it because you are so often proved wrong.