Mark Ruffalo

American actor and producer with boyish good looks. He landed a breakthrough role in 1997 in a Kenneth Lonergan play in New York, This Is Our Youth which led to his being cast in Lonergan's touching drama You Can Count On Me in 2000, playing opposite Laura Linney as her younger brother. Ruffalo won critical acclaim in both. He has gone on to other plays and movies.

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), and Michael Rezendes in the drama Spotlight (2015). 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 in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).

He grew up in Wisconsin, Virginia and San Diego, California but, wanting to break into acting, he moved to Los Angeles where he studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory. In 2000 he suffered from partial facial paralysis, the result of a benign brain tumor that was removed. That same year, he married actress Sunrise Coigney and they have three children, son Keen (b. 2001), and daughters Bella Noche (b. 2005) and Odette (b. 2007).