Ralph Ineson

His television roles include Chris Finch in The Office (2001–2003), Dagmer Cleftjaw in Game of Thrones (2012), and Nikolai Tarakanov in Chernobyl (2019). His video game voice work includes Charles Vane in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced (2026), Lorath Nahr in Diablo IV (2023) and Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred (2026), Cid in Final Fantasy XVI (2023) and Sheath in High on Life 2 (2026).

• Name — Ralph Ineson • Birth Name — Ralph Michael Ineson • Born — 15 December 1969 • Birthplace — Leeds, England • Occupation — * Actor • narrator • writer • Years Active — 1989–present • Height — 6' 6" • Children — 2

Ralph Michael Ineson was born on 15 December 1969 and grew up in Leeds. He attended Woodleigh School and Pocklington School. He studied theatre at Lancaster University's Furness College; after his first year, he moved into a flat in Lancaster and took a security job at The Dukes, helping out at its open-air Shakespeare productions in Williamson Park.

Ineson appeared in the music video for the 1996 song "My Kingdom" by Future Sound of London. He played the recurring character Chris Finch in the BBC comedy The Office. He starred as Donald Bamford in the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, as Zack in the soap opera Coronation Street, and played ex-soldier Sam Walker in the first series of Spooks. He played Luke Mullen in the BBC drama Playing the Field. He had a minor part in episode four of the first series of BBC drama This Life. He starred in Suburban Shootout, which aired on Paramount Comedy and Five. He played Frank Monk in series 7 of Waking the Dead in the episode "Wounds". He played pirate Dagmer Cleftjaw in the second season of HBO's Game of Thrones. He also appeared in an Imperial Leather advert as a fireman. Ineson had a minor role in the fifth and sixth series of BBC drama Waterloo Road in 2009 playing the role of John Fry. He had a small role in an episode of Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, as Paul, a buttock-kissing masseur, in the series four episode "Something Happened". In the 2012 ITV Titanic mini-series he played Steward Hart. In 2016, he appeared in the third season of the BBC Two series Peaky Blinders, playing the part of Connor Nutley. He has also appeared in the HBO series Chernobyl, and in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance for Netflix.

Ineson has used his distinctive, deep, gravelly Yorkshire accent in a variety of voice-over work. He has narrated TV programmes Licence to Drill, Salvage Hunters on the Discovery Channel, the 2010 Sky TV series Inside Gatwick, and the BBC1 series Claimed and Shamed. From 2012 to 2013, Ineson voiced Gunvald Larsson in The Martin Beck Killings, a series of BBC Radio dramatisations adapting all ten of the class Martin Beck crime novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. In 2013, he voiced the Channel 4 series Skint which followed the lives of British families from underprivileged backgrounds. In 2015, he narrated Countryside 999 on BBC One. In 2009, he narrated the BBC One documentary Series Gears and Tears which follows the characters of British BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars. On video games, he voiced Charles Vane in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Lorath Nahr in Diablo IV and Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, and Cidolfus Telamon in Final Fantasy XVI. He is also the voice on the introduction of the Leeds United FC football podcast The Square Ball. In 2024, Ineson voiced a barbecue in an advert for Prostate Cancer UK.

In 2003, Ineson married Ali Milner. They have two children; one of them, Rebecca Ineson, is an actress herself. Ineson filed a lawsuit against Disney in December 2023, claiming that he suffered from permanent shoulder damage due to injuries he sustained while filming the Disney+ series Willow.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1993 — Spender — Alex — Episode: "Best Friends" • 1993–2009 — The Bill — Alan Trent / Greg Simm / Robert Carmichael / Paul Gibson / Billy Wylie / Derek Crew — 8 episodes • 1994 — All Quiet on the Preston Front — Iggy — Episode: "Diesel's Garage" • 99-1 — Brian — Episode: "The Cost of Living" • Royce — Newfold — Television film • The Cinder Path — Arthur Benton — Miniseries • Screen Two — Policeman — Episode: "O Mary This London" • 1995 — Harry — Wayne — Episode: "#2.5" • Out of the Blue — Ricki Sellars — Episode: "#1.2" • Chandler & Co — Roderick Tully — Episode: "End of Term" • 1996 — Goodnight Sweetheart — Donald — Episode: "There's Something About a Soldier" • This Life — Jessop — Episode: "Sex, Lies and Muesli Yoghurt" • Kiss and Tell — Sergeant Beddowes — Television film • 1997 — Kavanagh QC — DCI Chris Sampson — Episode: "The Ties That Bind" • 1998 — Dangerfield — Jake Gilmore — Episode: "Local Colour" • Children of the New Forest — William Hammond — Television film • 1998–2002 — Playing the Field — Luke Mullen — 32 episodes • 1998, 2005 — Heartbeat — Tel Philips / Corporal Fisher — 2 episodes • 1999 — Touching Evil — Chris Wray — 2 episodes • Bostock's Cup — Clive Kennard — Television film • 2001–2003 — The Office — Chris Finch — 7 episodes • 2002 — Spooks — Sam Walker — Episode: "One Last Dance" • Holby City — Dale Warner — Episode: "Calculated Risks" • 2002, 2011 — Doctors — Billy Hollins / Martin Davies — 2 episodes • 2003 — The Afternoon Play — Rob Coles — Episode: "The Real Arnie Griffin" • In Deep — Craig — Episode: "Character Assassins: Part 1" • Thursday the 12th — Collins — Television film • Strange — Bill — Episode: "Dubik" • Between the Sheets — Mark Ainsley — 6 episodes • 2004 — Black Books — Richard (voice) — Episode: "Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa" • Blue Murder — Bob Urwin — Episode: "Lonely" • A Line in the Sand — Det. Sgt. Bill Davies — Miniseries • 2005 — The Walk — Lawrence — Television film • Murder in Suburbia — William Marshal — Episode: "Dogs" • Coronation Street — Zack — 9 episodes • ShakespeaRe-Told — Barry — Episode: "Macbeth" • The Virgin Queen — Dr. William Cowes — 2 episodes • 2005, 2008 — Casualty — Raymond Thurber / Martin Woodbridge — 2 episodes • 2006 — Missing — DCI John Carter — 2 episodes • Dalziel and Pascoe — James Maddern — Episode: "The Cave Woman" • The Only Boy for Me — Lawrence — Television film • Losing It — Mr. Granger — Television film • 2006–2007 — Suburban Shootout — Jeremy Hazledine — 11 episodes • 2007 — Die Ludolfs – 4 Brüder auf'm Schrottplatz — Narrator (voice) — Episode: "Flower Power in Dernbach" • Lead Balloon — Bob Marlin — Episode: "Giraffe" • 2008 — Waking the Dead — Frank Monk — Episode: "Wound" Parts 1 & 2 • New Tricks — D.I. Hamilton — Episode: "Mad Dogs" • 2009–2010 — Waterloo Road — John Fry — 9 episodes • 2010 — The IT Crowd — Paul the Masseur — Episode: "Something Happened" • Merlin — Jarl — Episode: "The Coming of Arthur: Part One" • 2011 — The Body Farm — Miles Leyton — Episode: "You've Got Visitors" • 2011–2012 — Case Sensitive — DC Colin Sellers — Four-part miniseries • 2011–present — Salvage Hunters — Narrator (voice) — All episodes • 2012 — Game of Thrones — Dagmer Cleftjaw — 5 episodes • Secret State — Sgt. Wrigglesworth — Four-part miniseries • Titanic — Steward Hart — Four-part miniseries • 2013 — Pramface — DS Sullivan — Episode: "Tinker, Tiger, Lobster" • Count Arthur Strong — Roger the Policeman — Episode: "Arthur.com" • Vera — Ross Strachan — Episode: "Prodigal Son" • Ambassadors — Captain Jones — Episode: "The Tazbek Spring" • 2014 — Inspector George Gently — Arthur Hawkes — Episode: "Gently Going Under" • New Worlds — Stackpole — 2 episodes • 2015 — Drunk History — King Henry II — Episode: "Episode Seven" • Bluestone 42 — Mike Slater — Episode: "#3.2" • The Interceptor — Yorkie — Episode: "Episode 6" • Prey — DCI Mike Ward — 3 episodes • 2016 — Peaky Blinders — Connor Nutley — 2 episodes • Porridge — Richie Weeks — Television special • 2017 — Sherlock — Vince — Episode: "The Final Problem" • Absentia — Adam Radford — 10 episodes • Star vs. the Forces of Evil — Demoncist (voice) — Episode: "Demoncism/Sophomore Slump" • 2018 — Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure — Cutter (voice) — Episode: "Beyond the Corona Walls" • Agatha and the Truth of Murder — Detective Inspector Dicks — Television film • 2019 — Chernobyl — General Nikolai Tarakanov — 2 episodes • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance — The Hunter (skekMal) (voice) — Netflix series 7 episodes • The Capture — DCI Alex Boyd — 6 episodes • 2022 — Trigger Point — Commander Bregman — 2 episodes • Willow — Commander Ballantine — 3 episodes • 2023 — The Legend of Vox Machina — Kevdak (voice) — 3 episodes • The Gallows Pole — The Clothier — Three-part television series • My Dad the Bounty Hunter — Widowmaker — Voice • 2024 — The Jetty — D.I. Morgan — Four-part television series • 2024–present — Ludwig — Chief Constable Ziegler — 8 episodes • 2025 — Wolf King — Leopold — Voice • Foundation — Archduke Bellarion — 1 episode • Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Rahzar — Voice, 3 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1989 — Jackets — NCO — Lancaster University • 1992 — York Mystery Plays — Herod's Heavy Willox — York Theatre Royal • 2015 — Hangmen — Inspector Fry — Royal Court Theatre

• Year — Title — Role • 2011 — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 — Amycus Carrow • 2013 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag — Charles Vane • 2023 — Final Fantasy XVI — Cidolfus "Cid" Telamon • Diablo IV — Lorath Nahr • 2026 — Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced — Charles Vane • High on Life 2 — Sheath • Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred — Lorath Nahr

Ineson's early Hollywood film credits include First Knight, From Hell, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and a brief role in The Damned United. He played Amycus Carrow, a Death Eater, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. He also appeared in the 2008 film Cass, as Sergeant Mullins. In 2014, he appeared in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. Also in 2014, he had a small role in the spy film Kingsman: The Secret Service, playing a policeman who interviews Eggsy. In 2016, Ineson starred alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Kate Dickie in Robert Eggers's critically acclaimed debut film The Witch, which saw Eggers win Best Director at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Ineson later credited Eggers and the film as offering him a career breakthrough stating: "(Eggers) gave me this amazing part in an amazing film with other incredible actors, and that changed everything for me. It gave me a lot of confidence in myself that if it came down to it, I did actually have the chops to be able to play a character with a proper arc and some nuance. It was much more than I’d been given to play with before, and that led to more work with Rob and also Steven Spielberg, the Coen brothers and all sorts of amazing filmmakers." Ineson appeared in a minor role as a First Order officer in the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. His role was originally bigger, but most of his performance was cut. The cut material is available in a deleted scene on the 2018 Blu-ray release of the film. Between 2018 and 2024, he appeared in prominent supporting roles in Ready Player One, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Green Knight (as the title character), The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Northman, Catherine Called Birdy, To Catch a Killer (as the titular serial killer), The Creator and Nosferatu. In 2025, Ineson portrayed the gigantic Marvel Comics planet-eating supervillain Galactus in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Ineson was offered the part without having to audition. Speaking about his preparation for the part, which he performed in heavy armour, Ineson said "There were little crosses of electric tape on the floor, which is why you have to do the preparation work for the character long before you set foot on set. The day-to-day job of getting the character onto screen is more of a physical challenge, but to make that cross of tape on the floor real in your own mind, you have to have your emotional memory ready to go. So I went to the tallest buildings I could find to have Galactus’ perspective, and when I was looking down at the floor, I could see that perspective, not just a piece of tape."

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1994 — Syrup — Skinhead — Short film • Shopping — Dix • 1995 — First Knight — Ralf • 1997 — Shooting Fish — Mr. Ray • 2001 — From Hell — Gordie • South West 9 — Liam • 2007 — The Last Thing to Go Through a Fly's Mind — Short film • Shoot on Sight — Marber • Cass — Sergeant Mullins • 2008 — Is Anybody There? — Mr. Kelly • 2009 — The Damned United — A crazy wild-haired reporter • Suicide Man — DJ (voice) — Short film • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Amycus Carrow • 2010 — Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll — The Sulphate Strangler • Robin Hood — Northerner • Another Year — Drill Worker • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 — Amycus Carrow • 2011 — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 • Intruders — Alarm Installer • 2012 — Great Expectations — Sergeant • 2013 — The Selfish Giant — Johnny Jones • 2014 — Guardians of the Galaxy — Ravager Pilot • Kingsman: The Secret Service — Policeman • 2015 — The Witch — William • 2016 — The Huntsman: Winter's War — Barkeep • 2017 — Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Colonel Ansiv Garmuth • 2018 — The Hurricane Heist — Connor Perkins • Ready Player One — Rick • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Posse Leader — Segment: "Near Algodones" • 2020 — Dolittle — Arnall Stubbins • Brahms: The Boy II — Joseph • Here Are the Young Men — Mr. Landerton • 2021 — Edge of the World — Sir Edward Beech • Everybody's Talking About Jamie — Wayne New • Gunpowder Milkshake — Jim McAlester • The Green Knight — The Green Knight • The Last Victim — Jake • The Tragedy of Macbeth — The Captain • 2022 — The Northman — Captain Volodymyr • Catherine Called Birdy — Golden Tiger • 2023 — The Pope's Exorcist — Asmodeus (voice) • To Catch a Killer — Dean Possey • The Creator — General Andrews • Lord of Misrule — Jocelyn Abney • 2024 — The First Omen — Father Brennan • Nosferatu — Dr. Wilhelm Sievers • 2025 — The Fantastic Four: First Steps — Galactus • Frankenstein — Professor Krempe • 2026 — Two Neighbors — Genie — Post-production • Werwulf — Post-production