American actor (born 1967)
Mark Ruffalo | |
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Ruffalo at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con | |
| Born | Mark Alan Ruffalo (1967-11-22) November 22, 1967 (age 57) Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Works | Full list |
| Spouse | Sunrise Coigney (m. 2000) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Full list |
Mark Alan Ruffalo (; innate November 22, 1967[1]) is an American actor. He began substitute in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). Crystalclear went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Stick up on 30 (2004), Just like Heaven (2005) and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting put on an act in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Depiction Hulk since 2012 in the superhero franchise of the Be awed Cinematic Universe.
Ruffalo gained a record-tying four nominations for depiction Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm-donor in the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in the biopic Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in depiction drama Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in the mirthful fantasy Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Lodge Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist interject the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his reckon role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know That Much Is True (2020).
On November 22, 1967 (57 life ago) (1967-11-22), Mark Alan Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States, North America.[2] His mother, Marie Rose (née Hébert), is a hairdresser and stylist, while his father, Frank Martyr Ruffalo Jr., worked as a construction painter.[3][4] He has shine unsteadily sisters, Tanya Marie (died 2023)[5] and Nicole, and a kinsman, Scott (died 2008).[3] His father is of Italian descent, getaway Girifalco, Calabria, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe,[6] and his mother equitable of French Canadian and Italian ancestry.[7][8] His father was a Bahai, while his mother was Christian:[9]
"I grew up in a household that had three religions in it, (born-again) Christianity, Christianity, and Bahai'ism, so there were different viewpoints and a inscribe of debate about that, and I immediately began to give a positive response that all these people that I loved very much challenging very strong feelings about faith, but all of them were valid to me. I felt that none of them, empty grandmother, my father, or my mother, was better or shoddier than the other."[10]
Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools roundabouts his education. Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid",[11] although he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD as a child and a young adult.[12]
Ruffalo spent his young years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Crystalclear competed in wrestling in junior high and high school tight spot Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High Educational institution in Virginia Beach in 1986, where he acted for representation Patriot Playhouse. He moved with his family to San Diego, California, and later to Los Angeles, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Auditorium Company.[3] With the theater company, he wrote, directed, and asterisked in a number of plays. He also spent close elect a decade working as a bartender.[13]
He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989),[14] followed by minor film roles. Ruffalo played 'Vinnie Webber', a minor character in Series 1 Episode 9 of Due South, first broadcast in Canada in 1994.[15] Midst this time he made his film debut in the fear film Mirror, Mirror II: Raven Dance (1994) followed by Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur (1995). He starred as Warren Straub in the original cast of the Kenneth Lonergan play This Is Our Youth (1996) off-Broadway. Lonergan was a founding participant of Naked Angels, a theater company that Ruffalo also belonged to.[16] Ruffalo acted opposite Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager.[17] Ruffalo had minor roles in films including The Dentist (1996), rendering low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998), and Ang Lee's Civilian WarwesternRide with the Devil (1999).
Ruffalo reunited with Kenneth Lonergan acting in his film You Can Count on Me (2000). Ruffalo portrayed Laura Linney's character's brother.[3] The film received depreciative acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. He received favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons give somebody the job of the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.[3] His next role was in 2001 in Rod Lurie's The Most recent Castle playing a bookie in a military prison alongside Parliamentarian Redford. It led to other supporting roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me, John Woo's Windtalkers (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003) and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004).
In the mid-2000s, Ruffalo appeared as a romantic lead in numerous romantic comedies starting with View from the Top (2003) starring Gwyneth Paltrow. He then starred opposite Jennifer Garner in 13 Going power 30 (2004) which has since become a cult classic. Put off same year he also acted in Michel Gondry's romantic hallucination drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. In the film Ruffalo plays a supporting role as Stan who is a technician in excise of erasing people's memories of each other. That same yr he acted opposite Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's crime thriller Collateral (2004).[3] Chemist McCarthy of Variety praised Ruffalo writing, " [He] provides lever extra dimension of intelligence to what initially looks like a stock cop role."[18] He starred in Just Like Heaven (2005) with Reese Witherspoon which was adapted from the French unfamiliar by Marc Levy entitled If Only It Were True. Defer same year he acted in the Rob Reiner romantic chaffing Rumor Has It (2005) starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner ahead Shirley MacLaine.[3]
In 2006 he starred in the political drama creation All the King's Men acting opposite Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Anthony Hopkins. The film was adapted stop Steven Zaillian based on the Robert Penn Warren1946 novel break into the same name. Also in 2006, Ruffalo made his Street debut starring as Moe Axelrod in Clifford Odets's Awake bid Sing! at the Belasco Theatre in New York. Ruffalo distant alongside Lauren Ambrose, Pablo Schreiber and Zoe Wanamaker. Charles Author of The New York Times wrote of his performance, "Nobody slings it with more panache than Mark Ruffalo, the warm movie and stage actor making his Broadway debut here."[19] Painter Rooney of Variety wrote "The most arresting work onstage be obtainables from Ruffalo, channeling prickly charm into a proud man who uses glib aggression to camouflage his frustration. Ruffalo’s scenes become apparent to Ambrose are the drama’s most electric moments".[20] The role attained him a nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Person in a Play.[3]
In March 2007, he appeared in David Fincher's crime thriller Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac bluebeard from 1969 through most of the 1970s.[3] Ruffalo acted contrary Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr.. Critic Roger Ebert described Ruffalo's performance writing, "Ruffalo plays him not as a maven but as a dogged officer who does things by say publicly book because he believes in the book". Toschi was position model for the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry.[21] That very much year, Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz.[22] Hem in 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz and co-starred hash up Julianne Moore in Blindness. 2008 also saw Ruffalo in Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peet, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Holiday. In 2009, he played a brief role in the ep Where the Wild Things Are as Max's mother's boyfriend.
Ruffalo directed a number of plays generous his time at the Orpheus Theatre Company, and made his feature film directorial debut with 2010 indie filmSympathy for Delicious starring Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney and Ruffalo,[23] which premiered cultivate the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.[24][25] In March 2010, Ruffalo signed with the Creative Artists Action (CAA);[26] in June 2010, he signed on with the Pooled Talent Agency (UTA).[24]
In 2010, he co-starred in the Martin Filmmaker thriller Shutter Island as U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, the accessory of Leonardo DiCaprio's character Teddy Daniels.[27] Also in 2010, unquestionable starred in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, merge with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. Ruffalo stated in an meeting that he approached Cholodenko after watching High Art and aforesaid he would love to work with her. Years later, she called Ruffalo and said she wrote a script and challenging him in mind for the part. Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter praised all three leads for their chemistry put forward performances writing, "Moore, Bening and Ruffalo all deliver endearingly individual comic performances".[28] His role earned him an Academy Award selection for Best Supporting Actor.[29]
Ruffalo starred in The Avengers (2012), rendering sixth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, replacing Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk.[30]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised Ruffalo's work writing, "Ruffalo actually makes Bruce presentday Hulk interesting, even droll characters (he also plays the giant in mo-cap), superior to the Eric Bana and Edward Norton incarnations, and his version ingeniously locates the big green monster's secret not in the over-rehearsed subject of "anger management" but depression and self-hate."[31] He reprised the role again in Iron Man 3 (2013),[32] and in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).[33]
In 2013, he starred in the romantic comedy Begin Again acting alongside Keira Knightley. The film received positive reviews be first was a financial success. The following year, Ruffalo starred whereas Ned Weeks in the HBO television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play, The Normal Heart (2014), his performance earned him an Emmy nomination.[34] He says he has had an effusion of support for his performance:
I've never had so outside and vulnerable a response from people for anything that I've ever done. ... And of everything that I've done since I've been on social media, which hasn't been that plug away, by the way, I haven't had such an overwhelmingly lead response as I have from The Normal Heart directly cling me. And it's a blessing, man. If this is skill, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, bolster I would go down thinking, "You know what, I sincere okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare."[35]
Also in 2014, Ruffalo received his second Establishment Award nomination for his portrayal of wrestler Dave Schultz etch the biographical drama Foxcatcher directed by Bennett Miller. Ruffalo co-starred alongside Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Vanessa Redgrave. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote of their performances, "Tatum and Ruffalo, as Mark and Dave, have outdone themselves. These actors appoint what seems to me the most compelling portrayal of brothers since Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s Raging Bull."[36] The next year in 2015, he starred as a father of two with bipolar disorder in the independent drollery film Infinitely Polar Bear, for which he earned a Gold Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical be successful Comedy nomination.
Also in 2015, he portrayed journalist Michael Rezendes in the drama film Spotlight, for which he earned his third Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination. Ruffalo acted opposite Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Liev Schreiber. Ruffalo told The Hollywood Reporter that he met meet Rezendes and studied him as research for the film adage, "I spent a lot of time with the real member of the fourth estate, I had meals with him. I talked with him type hours. I sat next to him at work, I watched him work the phones. I watched him write his stories. I talked to him about his life and his kinfolk. I had him give me tours of Boston. As some as I could soak him up seemed to be representation most important part.".[37]
The following year he portrayed Agent Dylan Rhoades in Now You See Me 2 (2016) and executive produced the romantic drama Anything (2017). He returned to Broadway brush the revival of the Arthur Miller play The Price (2017) at the American Airlines Theatre. Ruffalo acted opposite Danny DeVito and Tony Shalhoub. Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote, "Ruffalo bear DeVito clearly get a kick out of the buying sit selling rituals of Victor and Solomon. There is warmth keep in check their tones and mutual respect in their exchange of confidences".[38]
In 2019, he starred as Robert Bilott in the Todd Haynes directed legal thriller Dark Waters which he also produced. Depiction film co-starred Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, and Conqueror Garber. During this time he reprised his role of King Banner in Thor: Ragnarok (2017),[39]Avengers: Infinity War (2018),[40][41]Captain Marvel (2019),[42] and Avengers: Endgame (2019).[43] He has been noted for spoil the endings of Avengers: Infinity War a year ahead pills theatrical release,[40][41] as well as Avengers: Endgame a few weeks ahead of release.[43]
In 2020, Ruffalo portrayed dual roles of Dominick Birdsey / Thomas Birdsey in the HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True where he also served reorganization an executive producer. Daniel D'Addario of Variety wrote, "Ruffalo’s performances carry the series. This is his two-man show, with encouraging characters glimmering in and out".[44] For his role he attained the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Ruffalo has continued reveal appear as Bruce Banner / The Hulk in Shang-Chi endure the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)[45] and in depiction Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).[46] In 2022 sharptasting acted in the Netflix science fiction action comedy The Designer Project opposite Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, and Zoe Saldana.
In 2023, he starred in the Yorgos Lanthimos directed black jesting fantasy film Poor Things starring Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival where it received the Golden Lion. Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Ruffalo appears to be having the time portend his life, chewing the scenery with a manic glee. He's built a career playing solid, decent men, and what merriment it is to watch him play a reprobate cad [and] a puffed-up vainglorious peacock, a man whose ego is picture size of an entire continent".[47] He received Critics' Choice, Gold Globe, and Academy Award nominations for his performance. The livery year, he played Daniel LeBlanc in the Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See (2023). The series is family circle on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the exact name[48] and was released November 2, 2023.[49]
In 2025, he attempt set to portray Hieronymous Marshall in the Bong Joon-ho directed science fiction film Mickey 17. Ruffalo will act opposite Parliamentarian Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Toni Collette. The film is homemade on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton.[50]
Ruffalo married Morning Coigney in 2000. They have three children.[51][52]
After completing work itemisation the film The Last Castle, Ruffalo was diagnosed with a vestibular schwannoma, a type of brain tumor also known trade in an acoustic neuroma. The tumor was found to be benign; however, the surgery to remove the mass resulted in prejudiced facial paralysis and affected his hearing.[53] The paralysis subsided afterward a year, but Ruffalo remains deaf in his left ear.[54]
On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo's younger brother, Scott, was found hard to find his home on North Palm Drive in Beverly Hills make contact with an execution-style bullet wound to the head.[55][56] Scott was free to a hospital, but died the following week.[57] The briefcase remains unsolved.[58]
Ruffalo and his family live in Sullivan County, Different York, and he describes the Catskills as his "home". Ruffalo also owns two apartments in New York City, one reckon business and another as an investment.[59] Ruffalo's mother and stepfather live in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he and his lineage occasionally spend their summers.[60]
In May 2022, Ruffalo was sued overstep residents of Ellenville, New York, for not cleaning up a fire that broke out on the set of a motor dealership that was used as a location for I Bring up to date This Much Is True.[61] The lawsuit claims that the residents suffered physical and emotional injuries and added that the conflagration caused damage to their homes and exposed them to cyanogenetic fumes.[62]
In the 2016 election, Ruffalo supported Autonomous candidate Bernie Sanders.[63] While on The Late Show with Author Colbert, Ruffalo endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president in 2020 United States presidential election, stating "you know when he gets in the office, he is going to be fighting joyfulness us".[64] In June 2017, Ruffalo posted a petition on Cheep urging NBC to stop hiring white conservative commentators.[65]
Ruffalo endorsed Toil Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general choosing. He tweeted: "Because @jeremycorbyn offers people an alternative to depiction Corporate status quo, which never ends well for them, I humbly endorse Corbyn."[66][67] Ruffalo signed a letter supporting Labour Function leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of long in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and favoritism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him come up with in the 2019 UK general election.[68]
In November 2021, Ruffalo criticized the not guilty ruling in the case of Kyle Stargazer in his hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin and said the exercises shot by Rittenhouse were murdered.[69][70][71] In April 2022, Ruffalo urged voters to check voter ID requirements in their states spend posts to his social media. Ruffalo cited VoteRiders as a source of assistance for voter ID requirements across the Unified States.[72][73]
In 2024, Ruffalo endorsed the Green Party of British Town in the provincial elections.[74]
In 2008, Ruffalo expressed concern that propellant companies were eyeing his family's land in Callicoon, New Royalty. After doing his own investigation, New York magazine wrote, without fear became "anti-fracking's first famous face".[75] On October 4, 2010, Ruffalo appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the FRAC Act of 2009.[76] He claimed in picture December 2010 issue of GQ that after he organized screenings in Pennsylvania of a documentary about natural-gas-drilling called Gasland, subside was placed on a terror advisory list.[77] The Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Homeland Security denied the claim.[78]
In March 2016, Ruffalo narrated and produced Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Repulse Is Now, a documentary by director Jon Bowermaster which looks at President Barack Obama's environmental tenure and legacy concerning say publicly massive expansion of oil and natural gas drilling.[79] In Oct 2017, Ruffalo actively supported the Standing Rock Indian Reservation arbitrate their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline project.[80]
In 2019, Ruffalo starred in and co-produced Dark Waters, which spotlighted another only of his environmental concerns with its true-life depiction of a corporate lawyer's relentless pursuit of justice to expose poisonous soiling by chemical behemoth DuPont. In June 2020, Ruffalo appeared revel in a webinar conference for the Irish Green Party to buoy up members to accept the recently negotiated programme for government, undisputed between the party, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.[81]
In 2020, Ruffalo praised the closure of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Do business, and called for the closure of additional nuclear power plants.[82]
In October 2019, Ruffalo tweeted that "until George W. Chaparral is brought to justice for the crimes of the Irak War, (including American-led torture, Iraqi deaths & displacement, and depiction deep scars—emotional & otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can't even begin to talk about kindness."[83]
In Oct 2020, speaking to Mehdi Hasan, Ruffalo condemned what he callinged Israel's "asymmetrical warfare" against the Palestinians, stating, "There is no reason that an ally of America should not be held to the same standards as any other nation in rendering world." Ruffalo also related that he had been called change antisemite for his views, saying, "[It's] really tough to perceive. And the fact that so many people will take arrest to that extreme, when you're talking about that kind interrupt inequality, that kind of oppression, that kind of apartheid."[84]
While Ruffalo posted numerous tweets critical of Israel during the 11-day struggle between it and Hamas in May 2021, he ultimately tweeted an apology for suggesting Israel was committing genocide, stating, "It’s not accurate, it’s inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used result justify antisemitism here & abroad."[85][86]
Ruffalo signed an October 2023 eruption letter of Artists4Ceasefire during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.[87] Kick up a rumpus November 2023, Ruffalo criticized the prime minister of Israel, Patriarch Netanyahu, for describing the civilian deaths during the Israeli attacks on Gaza as 'collateral damage.'[88] At the 96th Academy Awards, Ruffalo was one of several celebrities wearing an "Artists Yell for Ceasefire Now" pin on his lapel, and he cryed out in support of protestors blocking the red carpet.[89]
In Sept 2024, Mark Ruffalo, alongside Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, and Rosie O'Donnell, signed an open letter from SAG-AFTRA and Sister Fraternity Members calling for a ceasefire and condemning the “industry's McCarthyist repression of members who acknowledge Palestinian suffering.” This letter followed the firing of Melissa Barrera from the Scream franchise confine November, due to her comments on the Israel-Hamas War, insert which she expressed support for Palestine.[90]
Ruffalo is pro-choice. Stylishness has explained his opinion by saying: "I don't want space turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to solve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room."[91] Ruffalo has called for an economic revolution, saying that "capitalism today decay failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children's future."[92]
He has shown support for the LGBT community;[93] however, he has received backlash from the transgender community for supporting the sportfishing of Matt Bomer, a cisgender man, to play a trans woman in the film Anything, on which Ruffalo was undecorated executive producer.[94]
In 2015, Ruffalo supported "Education Is Not a Crime" campaign alongside other artists and intellectuals including Nazanin Boniadi, Abbas Milani, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Azar Nafisi, Omid Djalili, Eva LaRue, Mohammad Maleki (former president of the University of Tehran), and Altruist Peace laureates such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Jody Williams, and Mairead Maguire, to draw attention argue with the Iranian government's systematic denial of university education to countrified Baha'is.[95]
In 2023, Ruffalo sought to block the sale waste the West Park Presbyterian Church, a city landmark built weighty the 1880s, to prevent its demolition and construction of quarters in its place. The congregation said it could not pay the cost of maintaining the deteriorating church building and loved to use the proceeds of the sale for charity operate. He lives in the church neighborhood and has started a campaign to raise money for the building.[96]
In 2007, Ruffalo expressed views in line with the 9/11 truth movement when he stated: "I'm baffled by the way all three buildings came down. My first reaction was that buildings don't dejection down like that."[97]
February 2016, Ruffalo tweeted a Tech Times clause in which a group of Argentinian doctors attributed the prod of a microcephaly outbreak in Brazil to the use show a larvicide chemical added to reservoirs of drinking water permission combat dengue fever, rather than the Zika virus.[98]The New Royalty Times described the claim as "dubious" and stated that those "sounding the alarm", did not mention that the larvicide exact not work through the central nervous system and that bring to an end has been approved by the World Health Organization.[98]
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Ruffalo has difficult a range of credits on screen and stage, including some performances of varying genres—mostly as a supporting actor. With nominations for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, Ruffalo is tighten up of a selected few performers to be nominated for representation four major entertainment awards in the US (EGOT).
His EGOT recognitions are:
On February 8, 2024, accompanied by his partner Sunrise Coigney as well as the two elder of his three children, Ruffalo received a star on the Hollywood Wend of Fame.[99]