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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an British-American actor, film producer, and director. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Fiennes was trained at and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1985. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before succeeding at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1995, Fiennes made his Broadway debut playing Prince Hamlet in the revival of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He was later Tony-nominated for his role as a travelling faith healer in the Brian Friel play Faith Healer (2006). Fiennes made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992). He has earned three Academy Award nominations for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996), and Conclave (2024). He has also acted in Quiz Show (1994), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), The Duchess (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and The Menu (2022). Fiennes gained wider recognition for playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011) and Gareth Mallory / M in the James Bond films (2012–2021); and has voiced roles in 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). He directed and starred in the films Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013). Aside from acting, Fiennes has been an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 1999.
Charlie Sinclair, a British screenwriter, is tasked with writing the new James Bond film. But as he develops the script, the events he imagines begin to come to life. A new global threat emerges: Solomon Drake, a former spy turned terrorist, who seems to know MI6’s every move in advance. When Sinclair discovers he’s being followed and spied on, he begins to suspect that his film might not be fiction after all: it could be a covert war strategy. As the line between reality and narrative blurs, Sinclair finds himself caught in a real espionage mission, teamed up with Kate Dawson, an agent who might protect him... or manipulate him. Meanwhile, the new 007, Alex Mercer, is on Drake’s trail, but he, too, starts to question his own existence: is he a man, or just a character written by someone else? In the final climax, Sinclair realizes that he’s not just writing Bond’s story—he’s rewriting reality itself. The question is: who’s pulling the strings? And more importantly, if the world is just a script, who wrote it in the first place?
