Harry Potter's Great British Thespians
Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, 4-8
He is often spoken of — as The Dark Lord, He Who Must Not Be Named or the more familiar but still ominous You-Know-Who — and rarely seen. Plotting his takeover from remote corners of the wizarding world, assigning his envoys to do most of the dirty work, Voldemort needs to be incarnated, in his few appearances, by someone who can summon a majesty that is both satanic and romantic. That's a job for Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 47, who has played demon lovers (Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, the disfigured Count in The English Patient) and just plain demons, notably the Nazi commandant in Schindler's List. Voldemort should become a starring role for Fiennes in the two-part finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.