Mark Ruffalo
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).
Acting (81 movies)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
The Last Castle
2001
Collateral
2004
13 Going on 30
2004
Zodiac
2007
54
1998
Rumor Has It...
2005
In the Cut
2003
Bonnie
2022
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Shutter Island
2010
Blindness
2008
We Don't Live Here Anymore
2004
Reservation Road
2007
Just Like Heaven
2005
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
Date Night
2010
Chicago 10
2008
XX/XY
2002
You Can Count on Me
2000
Margaret
2011
Safe Men
1998
What Doesn't Kill You
2008
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
The Kids Are All Right
2010
Apartment 12
2001
Oyate
2022
The Last Big Thing
1998
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
Now You See Me
2013
Foxcatcher
2014
Thanks for Sharing
2013
The Normal Heart
2014
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010
A Gift from Heaven
1994
Begin Again
2014
Mickey 17
2025
Infinitely Polar Bear
2014
Windtalkers
2002
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
Poor Things
2023
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
Now You See Me 2
2016
Spotlight
2015
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022
Committed
2000
Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
2024
Crime 101
2026
My Life Without Me
2003
Ride with the Devil
1999
View from the Top
2003
All the King's Men
2006
The Dentist
1996
Sympathy for Delicious
2010
Kingdom Come
2012
Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
1994
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
1997
A Fish in the Bathtub
1999
Houdini
1998
Blood Money
1996
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
There Goes My Baby
1994
Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur
1995
Dark Waters
2019
Captain Marvel
2019
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Iron Man 3
2013
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
The Avengers
2012
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
The Adam Project
2022
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Team Thor
2016
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
2025
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
The War of the Worlds 2021
2021
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Destiny of Marty Fine | 1996 | Writer |
| We Don't Live Here Anymore | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Sympathy for Delicious | 2010 | Producer |
| Infinitely Polar Bear | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Dear President Obama | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Anything | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Dark Waters | 2019 | Producer |
| Lakota Nation vs. United States | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| All That's Left of You | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| GenX: the Saga of Forever Chemicals | 2025 | Producer |