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Mark Ruffalo
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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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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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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
Real Time with Bill Maher
What If...?
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Marvel Studios Legends
Loki
Golden Globe Awards
Iron Man 3
Captain Marvel
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The Last Movie Stars
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Deadpool & Wolverine
Where the Wild Things Are
Captain America: Brave New World
Date Night
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Secret Wars
All the Light We Cannot See
Mickey 17
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Collateral
Avengers: Doomsday
What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?
Foxcatcher
The Avengers
The Adam Project
View from the Top
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Avengers: Endgame
Team Thor
13 Going on 30
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Poor Things
Blindness
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Being Heumann
You Can Count on Me
Zodiac
Thor: Ragnarok
Now You See Me 2
Just Like Heaven
Shutter Island
Dark Waters
I Know This Much Is True
Now You See Me
Apartment 12
Spotlight
Task
XX/XY
Production Credits
Dark Waters
I Know This Much Is True
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