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Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance

Birthday: 1960-01-18 | Place of Birth: Ashford, Kent, UK

Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960 in Ashford, Kent, England) is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, between 1995 and 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001). Rylance won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015). Rylance played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl, and appeared in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II. He appeared as James Halliday in Spielberg's 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the novel of the same name.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

as    Flop (voice)

2024
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

as    Thomas Cromwell

2024
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

as    Thomas Cromwell

2023
Inland

as    Dunleavy

2022
The Outfit

as    Leonard Burling

2022
The Phantom of the Open

as    Maurice Flitcroft

2022
Bones and All

as    Sully

2021
Don't Look Up

as    Peter Isherwell

2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7

as    William Kunstler

2019
Waiting for the Barbarians

as    The Magistrate

2018
Ready Player One

as    Anorak / Halliday

2018
2017
Dunkirk

as    Mr. Dawson

2017
The Making of 'Dunkirk'

as    Self

2016
Twelfth Night

as    Olivia

2016
The BFG

as    The BFG

2015
Bridge of Spies

as    Rudolf Abel

2015
2015
The Gunman

as    Terrance Cox

2015
Wolf Hall

as    Thomas Cromwell

2014
Bing

as    Narrator / Flop (voice)

2014
We Are Many

as    Self

2013
Muse of Fire

as    Self

2010
Inside The Institute

as    Self