Anthony Minghella Juliet Stevenson, Bill Nighy and Jenny Howe. His first radio play "Hang Up", starring Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson, was revived on 10 May 2008 as part of the BBC Radio 4 Minghella season. "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1990), a feature drama written and directed for the BBC's "Screen Two" anthology strand, bypassed TV broadcast and instead had a cinema release. He bypassed an offer of another "Inspector Morse" directorial to do the project, the latter he believed would have been a much higher-profile assignment. "The English Patient" (1996) brought him two Academy Awards nominations, Best Director (which he won) and
Ralph Fiennes major film franchises such as the "Harry Potter" film series (2005–2011), in which he played Lord Voldemort, and the "James Bond" series, in which he has played , starting with the 2012 film "Skyfall". In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "Coriolanus", in which he also played the title character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. One of the highest profile actors in contemporary British popular culture, Fiennes appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential