Mark Rylance

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Mark Rylance

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Biography

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.

Films Featuring Mark Rylance

Inside The Institute

2010

Prospero's Books

19916.8

Intimacy

20016.2

Angels and Insects

19956.2

The Other Boleyn Girl

20086.7

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

19957.6

Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe

2004

Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe

1997

Much Ado About Something

20015.1

Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

200310.0

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Days and Nights

20144.5

Loving

19963.7

Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories

2020

The Grass Arena

19928.5

The Government Inspector

20058.0

Bridge of Spies

20157.2

Inland

20235.3

The BFG

20166.3

We Are Many

20146.7

Twelfth Night

20127.7

The Gunman

20155.8

The McGuffin

19866.5

Dunkirk

20177.4

Hearts of Fire

19874.1

Ready Player One

20187.6

Blitz

20116.2

Anonymous

20116.4

Shakespeare's Globe

2005

Love Lies Bleeding

199310.0

In Lambeth

1993

Waiting for the Barbarians

20205.9

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

20183.5

The Trial of the Chicago 7

20207.7

The Way of the Wind

The Phantom of the Open

20226.8

Don't Look Up

20217.1

The Outfit

20227.1

Bones and All

20227.0

Spirit of Place

2024

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

2024

Wolf Hall: The Inside Story

Wolf Hall: The Inside Story

2015

Searching for Shakespeare

202510.0

Hamlet {Solo}

2007

A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies

2016

Measure for Measure: Live from the Globe

2004

Artificial

The Colorado

2016

On the Edge

2027

The Nightingale

2027

Incident in Judaea

Incident in Judaea

1991

The Flaneur

2019

Nice Fish