Mark Ruffalo
Born: 1967-11-22 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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).
Filmography
2026
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Crime 101 as Detective Lou Lubesnick
2025
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Dylan Rhodes
- Mickey 17 as Kenneth Marshall
- Task as Tom Brandis
- Hal & Harper as Dad
- All That's Left of You ... (Executive Producer)
- Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution as Narrator (voice)
- GenX: the Saga of Forever Chemicals ... (Producer)
2024
- Revealed: How to Poison a Planet as Self
2023
- Poor Things as Duncan Wedderburn
- All the Light We Cannot See as Daniel LeBlanc
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2022
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- The Adam Project as Louis Reed
- Bonnie as Self
- The Last Movie Stars as Self
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law as Self
- Lakota Nation vs. United States ... (Executive Producer)
- Oyate as Self
2021
- What If...? as Bruce Banner / Hulk (voice)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as Bruce Banner / Hulk (uncredited)
- Marvel Studios Legends as Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage)
- The War of the Worlds 2021
- Groundswell
2020
- I Know This Much Is True as Dominick Birdsey / Thomas Birdsey
- Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self - Actor, "Avengers: Endgame"
2019
- Avengers: Endgame as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Dark Waters as Robert Bilott
- Captain Marvel as Bruce Banner / The Hulk (uncredited)
- Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self (archive footage)
- Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero as Self
2018
- Avengers: Infinity War as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Anything ... (Executive Producer)
- Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Thor: Ragnarok as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2016
- Now You See Me 2 as Dylan Rhodes
- Team Thor as Bruce Banner
- The Naked Truth as Self
- Dear President Obama as Narrator
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Hot Ones as Self
- Avengers: Age of Ultron as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Spotlight as Michael Rezendes
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Begin Again as Dan Mulligan
- The Normal Heart as Ned Weeks
- Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self / Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Infinitely Polar Bear as Cameron
- Foxcatcher as David Schultz
- Sock or Hat? as Self
2013
- Now You See Me as Dylan Rhodes
- Iron Man 3 as Bruce Banner (uncredited)
- Thanks for Sharing as Adam
- Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Self - Letter Reader
2012
- The Avengers as Bruce Banner / The Hulk
- Kingdom Come as Self
- Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe as Self
2011
- Margaret as Maretti
2010
- Shutter Island as Chuck Aule
- The Kids Are All Right as Paul
- Date Night as Brad Sullivan
- Sympathy for Delicious as Father Joe
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Where the Wild Things Are as The Boyfriend
2008
- Blindness as Doctor
- Chicago 10 as Jerry Rubin (voice)
- The Brothers Bloom as Stephen
- What Doesn't Kill You as Brian
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Zodiac as David Toschi
- Reservation Road as Dwight Arno
2006
- All the King's Men as Adam Stanton
2005
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- The Colbert Report
- Rumor Has It... as Jeff Daly
- Just Like Heaven as David Abbott
2004
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Stan
- Collateral as Det. Ray Fanning
- 13 Going on 30 as Matt Flamhaff
- We Don't Live Here Anymore as Jack Linden
- City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' as Self
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- In the Cut as Giovanni A. Malloy
- My Life Without Me as Lee
- View from the Top as Ted Stewart
2002
- Windtalkers as Pappas
- XX/XY as Coles
2001
- Apartment 12 as Alex
- The Last Castle as Yates
2000
- Committed as T-Bo
- You Can Count on Me as Terry
- The Beat as Zane Marinelli
1999
- A Fish in the Bathtub as Joel
- Ride with the Devil as Alf Bowden
1998
- Safe Men as Frank
- 54 as Ricko
- Houdini as Theo
- The Last Big Thing as Brent Benedict
1997
- The View as Self
- On the 2nd Day of Christmas as Bert
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- The Dentist as Steve Landers
- Blood Money as Attorney
- The Destiny of Marty Fine as Brett
1995
- Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur as Joey
1994
- Due South
- Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance as Christian
- A Gift from Heaven
- There Goes My Baby as J.D.
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1992
- MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Presenter
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee