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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
Brainiac
for Brainiac in Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2013)
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Five years into his public career, Superman has become the world’s greatest symbol of hope, inspiring people across the globe while struggling to balance his responsibilities with life at the Daily Planet. While Lois Lane investigates encrypted files tied to Krypton and Jimmy Olsen chronicles Superman’s heroics, a mysterious object enters the solar system. It is Brainiac, an ancient artificial intelligence that preserves civilizations by shrinking and collecting them before their destruction. Following Brainiac into space, Superman discovers a massive archive containing stolen worlds from across the galaxy. Among them is Kandor, the lost Kryptonian capital. Brainiac reveals he studied Krypton for centuries and preserved parts of its culture before the planet’s demise. Exploring the archive, Clark discovers messages from Jor-El that force him to confront the pain of losing a world he never truly knew. As Brainiac prepares to add Earth to his collection, Superman realizes that heritage alone does not define who he is. Brainiac launches a global assimilation of Earth, forcing Superman into a desperate battle across Metropolis and aboard the alien vessel. While Lois and Jimmy expose Brainiac’s hidden systems on Earth, Superman frees Kandor and destroys the collector’s ship. During the crisis, a Kryptonian escape pod recovered from the vessel opens, revealing Kara Zor-El, a survivor from Krypton who expected to find her infant cousin and is shocked to discover him fully grown. Together they help secure Brainiac’s defeat, though fragments of his consciousness escape into digital networks across the cosmos. In the aftermath, Superman embraces Earth as his true home while welcoming Kara as the first living connection to his lost world and beginning her journey on Earth. Post-Credits: In Paris, Diana Prince watches coverage of Superman’s victory and the appearance of a second Kryptonian. She quietly smiles and says, “The age of heroes has begun again.”
