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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.
A series of murders of former spies unsettles secret services. M summons Program 00, active agents with a license to kill. Bond finds himself alongside men he has only heard of in whispers. He must uncover a secret organization that is attacking MI6. There is rivalry between some of the agents. But everyone knows that the world is facing something MI6 has never experienced. The 00 group is split up around the world. Each of them is a target. The trail leads to an agent who officially never existed. MI6 locates the base. No one suspects that Dr. Julius No is not only a new villain, but also the first 00. No is code for N°0, so he was originally a super agent with the code 000. He has begun his revenge. Using the Spectre network, former Soviet scientists, and an artificial intelligence named OMEGA, he aims to destroy MI6 and dismantle the 00 system. One by one, the 00 agents die. Bond reaches the base and comes face to face with Dr. No. Flashbacks show Dr. No, who was once Operative Zero, the prototype super agent. When MI6 discovered that there was great evil within him, he was erased, but survived. 003 freezes to death in a Siberian bunker. 004 sacrifices himself with an explosive to save the others. 005 is betrayed by his own protégé. 002 stays behind to hold off the Spectre army. 006 Travelayne dies while inputting a sequence into the central server core. 008 dies at the hands of 000 in a brutal, personal scene. 009 falls like a tank, a sacrifice that allows Bond to succeed
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