Mark Ruffalo
| Mark Ruffalo | |
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Ruffalo in June 2014
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| Born | Mark Alan Ruffalo November 22, 1967 Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York City,U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, activist, director, humanitarian |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Sunrise Coigney (m. 2000) |
| Children | 3 |
Mark Alan Ruffalo (/ˈrʌfəloʊ/, born November 22, 1967)[1] is an American actor, director, humanitarian and producer. He has portrayed the Marvel Comics character Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk inThe Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Following his major breakout performance in You Can Count on Me (2000), he went on to star in critically acclaimed films such as Collateral (2004),Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Zodiac (2007) andShutter Island (2010). For his roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Foxcatcher (2014), he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor.[2] In 2015, he received further acclaim and several award nominations for his roles inInfinitely Polar Bear and Spotlight, receiving his third Golden Globenomination for the former and third Academy Award nomination for the latter.
On the small screen, he won a SAG Award and received Emmy andGolden Globe nominations for The Normal Heart, which he also produced.
Early life[edit]
Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His mother, Marie Rose (née Hebert), is a hairdresser and stylist, and his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter.[2][3][4] He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott (died 2008).[2] His father is of Italian descent, and his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry.[5][6] He has described his upbringing as taking place in a "very big" family with "lots of love".[7]Of his father, Ruffalo has said, "He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. I was very lonely for him."[3] "I [grew up with] three different faiths in my home—I had Catholicism, my grandmother was a evangelical and the rest of my family and my father [were] Baha’i."[8] Ruffalo attended both Catholic school and progressive[clarification needed] schools.[9] Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid,"[10] although he struggled from undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child and a young adult.[11]
Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School,[2] and then 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.[2] With the Orpheus Theatre Company, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, and spent close to a
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