He-who-must-not-be named has a name. Ralph Fiennes, who has played many a baddie in his time, with appearances including those in Schindler's List and Red Dragon, is to play the ultimate modern villain. He has been cast as Voldemort in the latest Harry Potter film.
Fiennes, whose other roles include the lead in the English Patient and a foray into romantic comedy with Maid in Manhattan, is to take on J K Rowling's incarnation of evil. Voldemort, who is
Harry Potter's greatest enemy, was not seen in person in the first three Potter films. It is in the Mike Newell-directed fourth one (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) that he makes his dramatic entrance in the flesh.
Other new cast members include Miranda Richardson as a newspaper gossip columnist, Brendan Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody and French actress Clemence Posey, who beat over 3,000 girls for the role of Cho Chang, a schoolgirl who catches Harry's eye.
The film is set to be released in November 2005.
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