![]() ![]() He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989), followed by minor film roles. Career 1989–2002: Early roles and theatre debut He also spent close to a decade working as a bartender. With the theater company, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays. He moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach in 1985, where he acted for the Patriot Playhouse. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid", although he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD as a child and a young adult. Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools throughout his education. His father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco, Calabria, and his mother is of French Canadian and Italian ancestry. He has two sisters, Tanya Marie (died 2023) and Nicole, and a brother, Scott (died 2008). His mother, Marie Rose ( née Hébert), is a hairdresser and stylist, while his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo Jr., worked as a construction painter. ![]() Mark Alan Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie for playing a gay writer and activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020). Ruffalo gained nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm-donor in the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in the biopic Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in the drama Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in the science fantasy Poor Things (2023). ![]() Ruffalo gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk since 2012 in the superhero franchise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just like Heaven (2005) and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He began acting in the early 1990s 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). Mark Alan Ruffalo ( / ˈ r ʌ f ə l oʊ/ born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. ![]()
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