Mark Ruffalo trivia: 60 interestng facts about the actor!

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!

1. His full name is Mark Alan Ruffalo
2. He was born on November 22, 1967
3. He is an American actor, producer, and political activist
4. He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989)
5. Followed by minor film roles
6. He was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1996)
7. 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)
8. In 2010, he starred in the psychological thriller Shutter Island and the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right
9. For the latter, he received nominations for the SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
10. He also co-starred in the mystery films Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2
11. As FBI Special Agent Dylan Rhodes
12. Mark Ruffalo gained international prominence by portraying the Marvel Comics character Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
13. Beginning with The Avengers (2012)
14. And also appearing in the mid-credits scene in Iron Man 3 (2013)
15. Further reprising the role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
16. And the mid-credits scene in Captain Marvel (2019)
17. He will reprise his role in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
18. He starred in and was the co-executive producer of the 2014 television dramafilm The Normal Heart
19. For which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
20. As a producer
21. And he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie
22. The same year, he portrayed Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher
23. For which he was nominated for awards
24. Including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
25. In 2015, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Infinitely Polar Bear
26. And also received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for his role in the drama Spotlight
27. Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin
28. His mother, Marie Rose is a hairdresser and stylist
29. And his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter
30. He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole
31. And a brother, Scott
32. He died in 2008
33. His father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco
34. And his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry
35. Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools throughout his education
36. Mark Ruffalo has described himself as having been a “happy kid”
37. Although he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child and a young adult
38. Mark Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked
39. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia
40. At school, he sometimes went by the moniker Gavin Gruffallo
41. Mark Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach
42. There he acted for the Patriot Playhouse taught by Nancy P. Curtis
43. He moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles
44. There he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory
45. And co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company
46. With the theatre company, he wrote, directed and starred in a number of plays
47. And spent close to a decade working as a bartender
48. Since June 2000, Mark Ruffalo has been married to Sunrise Coigney
49. They have three children: son Keen, and daughters Bella Noche and Odette
50. After completing work on the film The Last Castle, Ruffalo was diagnosed with a vestibular schwannoma
51. A type of brain tumor also known as an acoustic neuroma
52. And had surgery
53. The tumor was benign but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis
54. He recovered from the paralysis
55. However, he became deaf in his left ear as a result of the tumor
56. On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo’s brother, Scott, was shot in the head at his Beverly Hills condominium
57. And died a week later
58. The case remains unsolved
59. Mark Ruffalo and his family live primarily in Manhattan
60. Ruffalo also owns a house in Sullivan County, New York and in 2016 described the Catskill Mountains as his home