Ralph Michael Ineson (born 15 December 1969 in Leeds, England) is an English actor with an extremely deep voice.
He often plays villainous or unsympathetic characters, such as the infamous office bully Chris Finch on The Office, the Ironborn raider Dagmer in Game of Thrones and skekMal the Hunter in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. He's also played more sympathetic or complex characters such as William the fanatical Puritan father in The VVitch and Nikolai Tarakanov in Chernobyl.
Selected filmography:
Film:
- First Knight (1995) as Ralf
- From Hell (2001) as Gordie
- Alexander (2004) as a dying soldier
- Harry Potter as Amycus Carrow
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010-2011, Part I and II)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) as a Ravager pilot
- The VVitch (2015) as William
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) as a policeman
- The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) as Barkeep
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) as Col. Ansiv Garmuth (Deleted Role)
- The Hurricane Heist (2018) as Connor Perkins
- Ready Player One (2018) as Rick
- Dolittle (2020) as Arnall Stubbins
- The Green Knight (2021) as the titular Green Knight
- Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) as Jim McAlester
- The Northman (2022) as Captain Volodymyr (the Rus merchant)
- The Pope's Exorcist (2023) as the Demon (voice)
- The Creator (2023) as Andrews
- The First Omen (2024) as Father Brennan
- Robert Eggers' Nosferatu remake as Dr. Sievers
Television:
- The Bill (1998 - 2003) as Alan Trent, Greg Simm, Robert Carmichael, Paul Gibson, Billy Wylie and Derek Crew
- The Office (UK) (2002-2003) as Chris Finch
- Waterloo Road (2009 - 2010) as John Fry
- Merlin (2010) as Jarl
- Game of Thrones (2012) as Dagmer Cleftjaw
- Sherlock (2017) as Vince
- Chernobyl (2019) as Major General Nikolai Tarakanov
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) as skekMal the Hunter
- Willow (2022) as Commander Ballantine
- The Legend of Vox Machina (2023) as Kevdak
Video Games:
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) as Charles Vane
- Diablo IV (2023) as Lorath Nahr
- Final Fantasy XVI (2023) as Cidolfus Telamon
Tropes in his works:
- Evil Sounds Deep: Has a deep booming voice that helps him out greatly with his villainous roles.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: He consistently sounds like he's spent the majority of his career starting every day with a gravel-and-thumbtacks cocktail - perfect for evil characters.
