Ralph Fiennes is one of this country's finest actors who is currently finding both critical and commercial success on both sides of the pond.
He is back on the big screen this week in Louis Leterrier's adaptation of the 1981 movie of the same name Clash of the Titans, in which he takes on the role of Hades.
Fiennes, whose brother Joseph is also an actor, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before kicking off his acting career in the theatre.
He went on to make his name in the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in the likes of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet.
But it was 1992 when he appeared on the big screen as he teamed up with Juliette Binoche for Wuthering Heights.
His performance as Heathcliff was a catalyst for the actor as it brought him to the attention of audiences as well as studios.
But it was his performance in Schindler's List in 1993 that really put him on the acting map.
He took on the role of the Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth alongside Liam Neeson.
The movie was a critical and a box office success and went on to be nominated for twelve Oscar awards, winning seven including Best Picture.
There was a Best Supporting Actor nod for Fiennes, losing out to Tommy Lee Jones.
He appeared in just two movies over the next two years, Quiz Show and Strange Days, before he once again found huge success with The English Patient.
The movie reunited him with Juliette Binoche as he took on the role of Count László de Almássy.
Directed by Anthony Minghella the movie follows the story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life.
Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past.
Once again the movie brought Fiennes huge critical success, as well as doing well at the box office.
The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, going on to win nine including Best Picture.
There was another nod for Fiennes, this time for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost out once again this time to Geoffrey Rush.
By the turn of the noughties the actor was mixing and matching his roles moving from horror films such as Red Dragon to the romantic comedy Maid In Manhattan.
In 2005 he found more success with The Constant gardener, another book adaptation, alongside Rachel Weisz.
In recent years the actor has found huge box office success with the Harry Potter franchise as he took on the role of Lord Voldemort in the series of movies.
The Duchess brought him Golden Globe and British Independent Film Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor as he portrayed William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire alongside Keira Knightley.
He was last seen on the big screen last year in The Reader with Kate Winslet and the Oscar winning war film The Hurt Locker.
And the actor list of projects waiting in the pipeline; he is all set to appear in Ricky Gervais' movie Cemetery Junction and he will return to the role of Lord Voldermort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The final Potter picture has been split into two movies, the first hitting cinema screens in November.
He can currently be seen in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang alongside Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal and is making his directorial debut with Coriolanus.
Clash if the Titans is released 2nd April.
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