Ralph Fiennes

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

From Amon Goeth in Schindler's List to M in the James Bond-films, this talented thespian from Suffolk, England has played a wide variety of roles in his career including his recent turn as a chef who shocks his guests with his culinary creations in The Menu, which earned him his latest and fifth Golden Globe nomination. Raffi Boghosian takes a look at Fiennes' career on his 60th birthday.

In 2005 Ralph Fiennes spoke to journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about The Constant Gardener, directed by Fernando Meirelles from the 2001 novel by John le Carré, where he played a British diplomat in Kenya trying to solve the murder of his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz), an Amnesty activist. He addressed the corruption of big pharmaceutical companies and supporting UNICEF, issues still timely today.