Editing Lord Voldemort (section)

== Portrayal in films ==
[[File:riddleinhogwarts.jpg|thumb|Young Tom in his fifth year at [[Hogwarts]] as played by [[Christian Coulson]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''.]]
Voldemort appears in every [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'' film]], with the exception of ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. Several actors have portrayed him in his varying incarnations and ages.

In ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', Voldemort's manifestation is as a face on the back of Quirrell's head, an effect achieved by computer generated imagery. [[Ian Hart]], the actor who played Quirrell in the same film, provided the voice and the facial source for this character. Voldemort also appears in a scene in the Forbidden Forest where he is seen drinking the blood of a unicorn. As Voldemort's face was altered enough by CG work, and Hart's voice was affected enough, there was no confusion by Hart's playing of the two roles. In that film, he was also shown in a flashback sequence when he arrived at the home of James and Lily Potter to kill them. In this scene Voldemort is played by [[Richard Bremmer]],<ref name="mn-cast-confusion">{{cite web | url=http://www.mugglenet.com/castpages/credits.shtml | title=Credit Confusion | publisher=MuggleNet | access-date=7 January 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029190049/http://www.mugglenet.com/castpages/credits.shtml | archive-date=29 October 2007 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> though his face is never seen. His next appearance would be in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as the 16-year-old Tom Marvolo Riddle (portrayed by [[Christian Coulson]]).

[[File:Ralph Fiennes 2013.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Ralph Fiennes]] portrays Voldemort from ''Goblet of Fire'' to ''Deathly Hallows Part 2''.]]

In ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', Voldemort is initially only heard, possessing the scratchy, weak voice heard in the first film. By the film's climax, however, he appears in his physical form for the first time, played by [[Ralph Fiennes]]. As in the book, Voldemort is shown clad in dark black robes, being tall and emaciated, with no hair and yellowish teeth; his wand has a white tone, and the handle appears to be made of bone; his fingernails are long and pale blue while his toenails appear to be infected. Unlike in the book, his pupils are not cat-like, and his eyes are blue, because producer [[David Heyman]] felt that his evil would not be able to be seen and would not fill the audience with fear (his eyes do briefly take on a snake-like appearance when he opens them after turning human, but quickly turn normal). As in the book, the film version of Voldemort has snake-like slit nostrils with the flesh of his nose significantly pressed back. Ralph Fiennes' nose was not covered in makeup on the set but was digitally removed in post-production. In this first appearance, Voldemort also has a forked tongue, but this element was removed for the subsequent films.

Fiennes stated that he had two weeks to shoot the climactic showdown scene where he is gloating over a terrified Harry, played by [[Daniel Radcliffe]]. Fiennes said with a chuckle: "I have no doubt children will be afraid of me now if they weren't before." In preparation, he read the novel ''Goblet of Fire'', but jokingly conceded: "I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes which I did, dutifully, until I got to my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times and that was my research."<ref>{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Fischer|url=http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/fiennes.php |title=Ralph Fiennes for 'White Countess' and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" |website=[[Dark Horizons]]|date=21 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026014441/http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/fiennes.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2005 |access-date=7 January 2007 }}</ref> Fiennes reprised his role as Voldemort in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''<ref name="oop-press-release">{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=176487|title=Helena Bonham Carter Joins the All-Star Cast and Nicholas Hooper Signs on to Compose the Score of Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix|date=2 August 2006|publisher=[[Warner Bros.]]|access-date=23 December 2006}}</ref> and ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2|Part 2]]''.

Fiennes's nephew, [[Hero Fiennes Tiffin]], portrayed Tom Riddle as a child in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. By the time filming arrived [[Christian Coulson]] was 29, and not considered suitable to return as the adolescent Riddle. [[Thomas James Longley]] was originally scheduled to take over the role, but last minute renegotiations saw [[Frank Dillane]] cast instead.<ref name="Crawley">{{cite news | title = Thomas James Longley | url = http://www.crawleyscastingcalls.com/index.php?option=com_actors&Itemid=56&id=4334&lettre=L | access-date = 25 October 2011 | archive-date = 27 January 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120127095407/http://www.crawleyscastingcalls.com/index.php?option=com_actors&Itemid=56&id=4334&lettre=L | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Dark Horizons">{{cite news|title=Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trivia |url=http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/36/Harry-Potter-and-the-Half-Blood-Prince |website=[[Dark Horizons]]|date=15 July 2009 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090705222220/http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/36/Harry-Potter-and-the-Half-Blood-Prince/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 July 2009|access-date=25 October 2011 }}</ref>