Mark Ruffalo
Acting
Born November 22, 1967 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1980s 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). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and 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 role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012). Ruffalo earned a record-tying four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm donor in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).
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Acting (85)
Avengers: Secret Wars
2027
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026
Crime 101
2026
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
Mickey 17
2025
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
2025
Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
2024
Poor Things
2023
Bonnie
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022
The Adam Project
2022
Oyate
2022
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Groundswell
2021
The War of the Worlds 2021
2021
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
2019
Dark Waters
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Captain Marvel
2019
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Team Thor
2016
Now You See Me 2
2016
Dear President Obama
2016
Spotlight
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Foxcatcher
2014
Begin Again
2014
The Normal Heart
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
Infinitely Polar Bear
2014
Thanks for Sharing
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Now You See Me
2013
Iron Man 3
2013
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
Kingdom Come
2012
The Avengers
2012
Margaret
2011
The Kids Are All Right
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
2010
Date Night
2010
Shutter Island
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Blindness
2008
Chicago 10
2008
Reservation Road
2007
Zodiac
2007
All the King's Men
2006
Rumor Has It...
2005
Just Like Heaven
2005
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore
2004
Collateral
2004
13 Going on 30
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
In the Cut
2003
View from the Top
2003
My Life Without Me
2003
Windtalkers
2002
XX/XY
2002
The Last Castle
2001
Apartment 12
2001
You Can Count on Me
2000
Committed
2000
Ride with the Devil
1999
A Fish in the Bathtub
1999
Houdini
1998
The Last Big Thing
1998
54
1998
Safe Men
1998
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
1997
The Dentist
1996
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Blood Money
1996
Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur
1995
A Gift from Heaven
1994
There Goes My Baby
1994
Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
1994