Mark Ruffalo has been through many different phases in his career. He is currently through his best phase yet!
So let’s dive in his career and life to find out some things!
- His full name is Mark Alan Ruffalo
- He was born on November 22, 1967
- He is an American actor, producer, and political activist
- He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989)
- Followed by minor film roles
- He was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1996)
- Following were his roles in 13 Going on 30 (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Zodiac (2007) and What Doesn’t Kill You (2008)
- In 2010, he starred in the psychological thriller Shutter Island and the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right
- For the latter, he received nominations for the SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- He also co-starred in the mystery films Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2
- As FBI Special Agent Dylan Rhodes
- Mark Ruffalo gained international prominence by portraying the Marvel Comics character Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Beginning with The Avengers (2012)
- And also appearing in the mid-credits scene in Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Further reprising the role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- And the mid-credits scene in Captain Marvel (2019)
- He will reprise his role in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- He starred in and was the co-executive producer of the 2014 television dramafilm The Normal Heart
- For which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
- As a producer
- And he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie
- The same year, he portrayed Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher
- For which he was nominated for awards
- Including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- In 2015, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Infinitely Polar Bear
- And also received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for his role in the drama Spotlight
- Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin
- His mother, Marie Rose is a hairdresser and stylist
- And his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter
- He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole
- And a brother, Scott
- He died in 2008
- His father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco
- And his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry
- Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools throughout his education
- Mark Ruffalo has described himself as having been a “happy kid”
- Although he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child and a young adult
- Mark Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked
- He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia
- At school, he sometimes went by the moniker Gavin Gruffallo
- Mark Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach
- There he acted for the Patriot Playhouse taught by Nancy P. Curtis
- He moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles
- There he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory
- And co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company
- With the theatre company, he wrote, directed and starred in a number of plays
- And spent close to a decade working as a bartender
- Since June 2000, Mark Ruffalo has been married to Sunrise Coigney
- They have three children: son Keen, and daughters Bella Noche and Odette
- After completing work on the film The Last Castle, Ruffalo was diagnosed with a vestibular schwannoma
- A type of brain tumor also known as an acoustic neuroma
- And had surgery
- The tumor was benign but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis
- He recovered from the paralysis
- However, he became deaf in his left ear as a result of the tumor
- On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo’s brother, Scott, was shot in the head at his Beverly Hills condominium
- And died a week later
- The case remains unsolved
- Mark Ruffalo and his family live primarily in Manhattan
- Ruffalo also owns a house in Sullivan County, New York and in 2016 described the Catskill Mountains as his home
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