Lord Voldemort is a fictional character from a series of books about the young wizard Harry Potter, which were filmed. This is a great wizard, who is the head of the Death Eaters and the enemy of Harry Potter. It is mentioned in all parts of the work. First you need to find out who plays Voldemort.
The actors who played the wizard
In the film, the Dark Lord appears in various guises. Depending on the episode, different actors play it.
List of actors who played Voldemort:
- Richard Bremmer plays in a flashback scene;
- Ian Hart depicts a face located on the back of Quirrell's head;
- Christian Coulson represented sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle in the part about the Chamber of Secrets;
- Hiro Fiennes-Tiffin played eleven-year-old Tom from Dumbledore's memoirs;
- Frank Dillane was sixteen year old from Slughorn's recollections;
- Ralph Fiennes was the rebellious Voldemort, who was the main person from the end of the fourth part to the final scenes.
Ralph Fiennes Biography
A British actor was born who played Voldemort on 12/22/1962 in Suffolk. In the family of the photographer and writer, he was the eldest child. Parents quite often moved and encouraged their children to do art. Of all six children, actors, filmmakers, and composers have turned out.
The young man (who played Voldemort) studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, after graduating from which he worked in the troupe of the Royal Theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The beginning of work in the cinema is associated with the director Chris Meno, who provided the actor with a cameo role in the television series "The main suspect." Success in the cinema came to him after the release of the film Dangerous Man, for which he received an Emmy Award.
List of the most famous works of the actor who played Voldemort:
- "Schindler's list". In the film, he embodied the image of the commandant of the German concentration camp Amon Goethe.
- "English patient." He played Count Laszlo de Almashi and received the status of a world star.
- "Eugene Onegin". The film was filmed by the actor’s sister, who provided him with the main role.
- “Taste of Sunlight”, in which Fiennes played three roles at once, is a tape about the life of a Jewish family.
- "A dedicated gardener."
- "The White Countess."
- "Duchess."
The work of Ralph Fiennes in "Harry Potter"
Among the younger generation, actor Ralph Fiennes (who plays Voldemort) is known for this role. He appears as this character by the end of the fourth part - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." The actor brilliantly played the Dark Lord, appearing in four subsequent films.
Wizard's name
From the work of Joan Rowling, it is known that the original name of the Lord was Tom Marvolo Reddle. Rearranging the letters of his real name, he became Lord Voldemort for everyone. Translated from French, the new name means "flight of death."
According to the plot of the work, all wizards are so afraid of this character that they do not even dare to pronounce his name. Most often you could hear instead of the name of the word "You-Know-Who," "Dark Lord."
However, there were those who nevertheless called him by name. This is primarily Harry, Dumbledore, Lupine, Sirius Black, as well as Hermione and Ron. They believed that, without calling him by name, they only maintain fear in themselves. Although in the seventh part in the name of Voldemort was really cast a spell. Those who dared to utter it could be tracked by the Death Eaters.
The exterior of Voldemort
According to the description from the books, after his revival, the wizard had pale skin, a skull-shaped face, snake nostrils and red eyes with snake pupils. His body was thin and resembled glass, and his hands and fingers were unnaturally extended.
In his youth, the appearance of Voldemort is described in such a way that he appears as an attractive person with an aristocratic bearing. He had dark eyes, black hair.
Such a radical change in appearance occurred, most likely, due to the creation of a large number of crucifixes. They changed not only his soul, but also his appearance.
According to the film, the appearance of the wizard differs only in the color of the eyes. They have a gray-blue tone with ordinary pupils. Perhaps this is how the filmmakers tried to draw an analogy with Nazism in World War II. So the character looks like a representative of a pure Aryan race. Moreover, the actor himself (who plays Voldemort) played at one time a Nazi in Schindler's List. However, these are only speculations that are not officially confirmed. Perhaps this was the vision of the director with whom you can not argue.
Biography of Voldemort
The future wizard was born in a Muggle shelter. His mother was a sorceress from the genus S. Slytherin. Father was a Muggle and left his mother as soon as she stopped watering him with a love potion. She was not beautiful and in despair did not see the point in life. Having given birth to a child, she gave him the name Tom, since the boy’s father was called the same. The second name was Marvolo - in honor of her wizard father. Mother died immediately, and his father did not even know about his existence.
Tom was brought up in a shelter. He was different from his peers. From the employee of the shelter it becomes known that in childhood he never cried, and later tormented children. He gradually mastered the emerging magical abilities and used them against his peer Muggles, who were afraid of him. The boy considered himself special.
Professor Dumbledore met Tom at the shelter when he was eleven years old. He is being taken to Hogwarts, where he studied well. Many teachers loved him, but Dumbledore was not one of those. In his fifth year of study, Tom becomes a Slytherin headman. At the same time, he finds his way into the Chamber of Secrets and releases the Basilisk. At the end of the course, Tom kills his father and his parents, with whom he lived.
In the sixth year, he learns from Slughorn about the effects of the Horcruxes. He created the first of them from a diary, which, in addition, became an instruction for opening the Chamber of Secrets.
In his seventh year, Tom had many admirers, he was the best student. Carried away by the dark arts while still studying, he disappeared from sight. Gradually, he began to gather around himself supporters of the idea of pure blood, who began to call themselves Death Eaters.
Upon learning that one day a boy named Harry Potter can destroy him, he decides to kill him first. As a result of this attempt, the mother’s love protected the boy, and the Lord's spell bounced into him, and he became nothing until he reincarnated. Who plays Voldemort after reincarnation is already known.
Origin
Although the Dark Lord sought to exterminate the half-bloods, he himself was also obsessed with Muggles. He carefully concealed this fact. Even because of this, he changed his name, which he got from his Muggle father.
According to the line of wizards, he was a descendant of Cadmus Peverell and Harry Potter was a distant relative.
Magical abilities
According to Dumbledore, Tom showed excellent magical abilities. As a child, he realized that he could talk with snakes (serpentine). He could penetrate someone else's mind, changing his memory (legalization). With the help of Professor Slughorn, he mastered the ability to create crucifixes, thus gaining the immortality of his own soul.
In addition, the Dark Lord was a wonderful duelist. He could cast spells and counterspells in seconds. By skill in duels, he was on an equal footing only with Dumbledore.
However, Voldemort did not know much. Raised not in a family of wizards, he did not know ancient legends, and the lack of maternal love made him weak in his own way. He could not kill little Harry because of the spell of Love, he could not penetrate the boy’s thoughts because of the excruciating pain caused by thoughts of family, love, friendship. In the end, he was destroyed, as the prophecy said.