Ralph Fiennes

The actor on playing a high-achieving, under-recognised archeologist, and English society

Wild Geese: Pauline Turley is the vice-chair of the Irish Arts Center in New York

Here's the thing, herbs and spices are costumes. Rice and pasta are ‘extras’. Bowls and plates are sets. Chicken is the lead character

The Portlaoise-born actor talks about London living, meditation and lockdown writing

This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that

In trailer for 25th 007 film Daniel Craig comes face to face with his replacement

Review: Hood’s study of Katharine Gun is an efficient, diverting exercise that will educate

Prima ballerina Irina Kolesnikova talks about the life’s training behind her Irish shows

Peter Hartley arrested after a report of voyeurism at Pinewood Studios

The 25th Bond film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, will be Daniel Craig’s fifth outing as 007

Irish actor recalls his James Bond debut in GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp

The National Theatre’s outward-looking director has had to contend with an increasingly inward-looking Britain

Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville

In ‘My Astonishing Self’, the actor follows shyly in Shaw’s footsteps. But what draws GB to GBS?

'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled

The army of the dead’s king is a poor leader to the show’s excellent cast of villains

People celebrating a female Doctor Who as a symbol of increasing gender equality have got it wrong

The star of ‘The Help’ and now ‘Miss Sloane’ is taking on inequality in Hollywood and beyond

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

Alaistar Cook’s side conceded their highest ever total of 759 for seven in test history

Mesmerising performance but something hesitant in Barry McGovern’s delivery

The Austrian writer of the 1930s, a friend of James Joyce and inspiration for Wes Anderson, is back in vogue as his view of a world changing for the worse captures the zeitgeist

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle

DeriLuca Guadagnino’s four-hander is awash with cultural recycling - but unhinged enthusiasm from Ralph Fiennes outdoes almost everything else on display

The famous petrolhead shares pecorino with Jeremy Paxman to discuss cars, cigarettes and Kristin Scott Thomas

London Letter: New films seem to lament times past, which Corbyn also exemplifies

Tension between innovation and tradition ultimately pulls latest 007 episode to pieces

Angelina Jolie’s wartime epic has everything going for it – except character and plot

Ross Dungan had success in the Edinburgh Fringe as a performer but hated every moment – the switch to writing hasn’t harmed his career one bit

Görlitz Letter: a Saxony town’s architectural gems survived war to star in a Hollywood film

Wes Anderson’s rambunctious but elegant Mitteleuropa farce stars Ralph Fiennes on brilliant comic form

Ralph Fiennes talks about his childhood in Ireland, the great Bond conundrum, and dipping into the complicated private life of a fellow English celebrity – Charles Dickens

From the flicks to the deliberations, Donald Clarke’s 10 must-sees, must-hears for this year’s Dublin film festival

Hugh O’Conor’s brilliant childhood performances are seared into our collective memory – and as his grown-up self gets a big-screen outing in new Irish comedy The Stag, he sits down with Donald Clarke to talk early success, turning 40 and everything in between

With work of such consistent quality, it is difficult to settle on a single masterpiece: Friel has given us some incredible memories

Wikileaks founder will be given the Thought For The Day slot BBC Radio 4 on Thursday