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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.
Ralph Fiennes
Professor X
for Professor X in Fancasting the X-Men for the MCU
Suggested by bryschec
Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr know each other from protests to abolish the Jim Crow laws like the march on Washington. Charles and Erik are both African Americans with Charles being from New York and Erik from Georgia. Erik suffered greatly from the harsh racism of the american south and Charles did not, but Charles always wants to help a cause he believes in. After Brown v Board of Education America moved on to another thing to blame their problems on... THE MUTANTS. Erik saw this as a sign that humanity would never get better and will always find another thing to hate and that a more evolved species of humans wouldn't have such prejudices, knowing he and Charles were both mutants he went to Charles and asked him to join him when Charles declines Erik uses his mutant ability to control metal and Charles uses his powerful telepathy and they fight but it is no use because in the end Erik paralyzes Charles and leaves him. Charles later founded a school for mutants where he and some fellow mutants like Dr. Hank McCoy educate the young mutants so they can learn to control their powers and so that they are not discriminated against by their non-mutant peers. Erik has been planning an attack on the governments of the world so that mutants can take their place as "Homo Superior" The X-Men fight and win and boom we have an X-men movie.
