RALPH FIENNES received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his work in "The English Patient." His performance in "Schindler's List" brought him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor, awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. He was voted Best Actor of 1994 by the London Film Critics and, in 1995, won a Tony Award for his work in the title role of "Hamlet" on Broadway -- the only actor (out of the roughly one dozen actors who have played Hamlet on Broadway) in history to win the award for his portrayal of the Danish prince. Fiennes, the eldest of six children born to a photographer father and novelist mother, is a native of Suffolk, England. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, he joined Britain's Royal National Theatre in 1987 and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1989. Stage credits include "Six Characters in Search of an Author," "Fathers and Sons" and "Ting Tang Mine" (all at the National Theatre) and "The Plantagenets" (the three parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI" plus "Richard III") for the RSC. Other stage credits include "Much Ado About Nothing," "King John," "Troilus and Cressida," "Love's Labour Lost," "King Lear" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner." His other film credits include "Strange Days" and the critically lauded "Quiz Show." Fiennes most recently starred in the film "Oscar and Lucinda." Upcoming projects include the title role in "Eugene Onegin" and as the voice of the Pharaoh Ramses in the animated "Prince of Egypt."