jonathan drew groff was the actor who played lord voldemort.
jonathan drew groff was the actor who played lord voldemort.
who is the actor who plays lord voldemort?
jonathan drew groff
in "harry potter and the goblet of fire", voldemort is initially only heard, possessing the scratchy, weak voice heard in the first film. by the film's climax, however, he appears in his physical form for the first time, played by ralph fiennes. as in the book, voldemort is shown clad in dark black robes, being tall and emaciated, with no hair and yellowish teeth; his wand has a white tone and the handle appears to be made of bone; his finger nails are long and pale blue while his toe nails appear to be infected. unlike in the book, his pupils are not cat-like and his eyes are blue, because producer david heyman felt that his evil would not be able to be seen and would not fill the audience with fear (his eyes do briefly take on a snake-like appearance when he opens them after turning human, but quickly turn normal). as in the book, the film version of voldemort has snake-like slit nostrils with the flesh of his nose significantly pressed back. ralph fiennes' nose was not covered in makeup on the set, but was digitally removed in post-production. in this first appearance, voldemort also has a forked tongue, but this element was removed for the subsequent films.
lord voldemort
in other languages, translators replaced the entire name to preserve the anagram. in french, riddle's full name becomes "tom elvis jedusor" (i.e. phonetically "game of fate" for the french "jeu du sort", wordplay with a phonetically identical "jet du sort", which means "casting spell") which forms an anagram for "je suis voldemort" ("i am voldemort"). in norwegian, his name is "tom dredolo venster", an anagram of "voldemort den store", which means "voldemort the great". in greek, his name is "anton marvolo hurt" (άντον μαρβόλο χέρτ), anagram of "άρχον βόλντεμορτ" which means "lord voldemort". in icelandic, his name is "trevor delgome", which becomes "(ég)eg er voldemort" ("i am voldemort"), but his middle name is not used for the anagram and stays as marvolo. in finnish his name is "tom lomen valedro"; the corresponding anagram is "ma(ä) olen voldemort", "i am voldemort". in dutch, his name is "marten asmodom vilijn", an anagram of "mijn naam is voldemort", or "my name is voldemort", "vilijn" being a pseudohomophone of "vilein", "evil". in swedish, his name is "tom gus mervolo dolder", an anagram of "ego sum lord voldemort", where "ego sum" is latin, not swedish, for "i am".
harry potter in translation