Mark Ruffalo
Biography
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1980s 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). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005), and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012). Ruffalo earned a record-tying four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm donor in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).
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Movies (36)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2026
Crime 101
as Detective Lou Lubesnick
2026
GenX: the Saga of Forever Chemicals
Producer (Production)
2025
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Dylan Rhodes
2025
All That's Left of You
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
Mickey 17
as Kenneth Marshall
2025
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
as Self
2024
Poor Things
as Duncan Wedderburn
2023
Bonnie
as Self
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
as Self
2022
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
The Adam Project
as Louis Reed
2022
Oyate
as Self
2022
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage)
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Bruce Banner / Hulk (uncredited)
2021
Groundswell
2021
The War of the Worlds 2021
2021
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self - Actor, "Avengers: Endgame"
2020
Team Thor VS Team Darryl
as Bruce Banner
2019
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
as Self
2019
Dark Waters
as Robert Bilott
2019
Avengers: Endgame
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2019
Captain Marvel
as Bruce Banner / The Hulk (uncredited)
2019
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Anything
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2018
Thor: Ragnarok
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2017
Team Thor
as Bruce Banner
2016
Now You See Me 2
as Dylan Rhodes
2016
Dear President Obama
as Narrator
2016
Spotlight
as Michael Rezendes
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2015
Foxcatcher
as David Schultz
2014
Begin Again
as Dan Mulligan
2014
TV Shows (14)
Hal & Harper
as Dad
2025
Task
as Tom Brandis
2025
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2023
All the Light We Cannot See
as Daniel LeBlanc
2023
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
as Bruce Banner / Hulk
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Self
2022
What If...?
as Bruce Banner / Hulk (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
as Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
I Know This Much Is True
as Dominick Birdsey / Thomas Birdsey
2020
The Naked Truth
as Self
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014