63 Facts About Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo began acting in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth and drama film You Can Count on Me.

Mark Ruffalo went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 and Just like Heaven, and the thrillers In the Cut, Zodiac, and Shutter Island.

Mark 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, Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher, Michael Rezendes in Spotlight, and a debauched lawyer in Poor Things.

Mark Ruffalo won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart, 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.

Mark Alan Ruffalo was born on November 22,1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Mark Ruffalo's mother, Marie Rose, is a hairdresser and stylist, while his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo Jr.

Mark Ruffalo has two sisters, Tanya Marie and Nicole, and a brother, Scott.

Mark Ruffalo's father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco, Calabria, and his mother is of French Canadian and Italian ancestry.

Mark Ruffalo's father was a Bahai, while his mother was Christian.

Mark Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools throughout his education.

Mark 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.

Mark Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked.

Mark Ruffalo competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia.

Mark Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach in 1986, where he acted for the Patriot Playhouse.

Mark Ruffalo 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.

Mark Ruffalo spent close to a decade working as a bartender.

Mark Ruffalo made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse, followed by minor film roles.

Mark Ruffalo starred as Warren Straub in the original cast of the Kenneth Lonergan play This Is Our Youth off-Broadway.

Mark Ruffalo had minor roles in films including The Dentist, the low-key crime comedy Safe Men, and Ang Lee's Civil War western Ride with the Devil.

Mark Ruffalo reunited with Kenneth Lonergan acting in his film You Can Count on Me.

Mark Ruffalo received favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.

Mark Ruffalo then starred opposite Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30 which has since become a cult classic.

Mark Ruffalo acted alongside Lauren Ambrose, Pablo Schreiber and Zoe Wanamaker.

Critic Roger Ebert described Mark Ruffalo's performance writing, "Mark Ruffalo plays him not as a hotshot but as a dogged officer who does things by the book because he believes in the book".

That same year, Mark Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz.

In 2008, Mark Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz and co-starred with Julianne Moore in Blindness.

Mark Ruffalo directed a number of plays during his time at the Orpheus Theatre Company, and made his feature film directorial debut with 2010 indie film Sympathy for Delicious starring Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.

In March 2010, Mark Ruffalo signed with the Creative Artists Agency ; in June 2010, he signed on with the United Talent Agency.

Mark Ruffalo stated in an interview that he approached Cholodenko after watching High Art and said he would love to work with her.

Years later, she called Mark Ruffalo and said she wrote a script and had him in mind for the part.

Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter praised all three leads for their chemistry and performances writing, "Moore, Bening and Mark Ruffalo all deliver endearingly quirky comic performances".

Mark Ruffalo's role earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Mark Ruffalo says he has had an outpouring of support for his performance:.

Also in 2014, Mark Ruffalo received his second Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of wrestler Dave Schultz in the biographical drama Foxcatcher directed by Bennett Miller.

Mark Ruffalo co-starred alongside Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Vanessa Redgrave.

Mark Ruffalo acted opposite Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Liev Schreiber.

Mark Ruffalo returned to Broadway in the revival of the Arthur Miller play The Price at the American Airlines Theatre.

Mark Ruffalo has been noted for spoiling the endings of Avengers: Infinity War a year ahead of theatrical release, as well as Avengers: Endgame a few weeks ahead of release.

Mark Ruffalo received Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations for his performance.

Mark Ruffalo acted opposite Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Toni Collette.

The paralysis subsided after a year, but Mark Ruffalo remains deaf in his left ear.

Mark Ruffalo owns two apartments in New York City, one for business and another as an investment.

In June 2017, Mark Ruffalo posted a petition on Twitter urging NBC to stop hiring white conservative commentators.

Mark Ruffalo endorsed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.

In November 2021, Mark Ruffalo criticized the not-guilty ruling in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse in his hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and said the people shot by Rittenhouse were murdered.

Mark Ruffalo cited VoteRiders as a source of assistance for voter ID requirements across the United States.

Mark Ruffalo supported the Green Party of British Columbia in the provincial elections.

In 2008, Mark Ruffalo expressed concern that gas companies were eyeing his family's land in Callicoon, New York.

New York magazine wrote that Mark Ruffalo, after doing his own investigation, became "anti-fracking's first famous face".

On October 4,2010, Mark Ruffalo appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the FRAC Act of 2009.

Mark Ruffalo claimed in the December 2010 issue of GQ that after he organized screenings in Pennsylvania of a documentary about natural-gas drilling called Gasland, he was placed on a terror advisory list.

In March 2016, Mark Ruffalo narrated and produced Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now, a documentary by director Jon Bowermaster which looks at President Barack Obama's environmental tenure and legacy concerning the massive expansion of oil and natural-gas drilling.

In October 2017, Mark Ruffalo actively supported the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

In June 2020, Mark Ruffalo appeared in a webinar conference for the Irish Green Party to encourage members to accept the recently negotiated programme for government, agreed between the party, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail.

In 2020, Mark Ruffalo praised the closure of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, and called for the closure of additional nuclear power plants.

Mark Ruffalo signed an October 2023 open letter of Artists4Ceasefire during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

In November 2023, Mark Ruffalo criticized the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, for describing the civilian deaths during the Israeli attacks on Gaza as "collateral damage".

At the 96th Academy Awards, Mark Ruffalo was one of several celebrities wearing an "Artists Call for Ceasefire Now" pin on his lapel.

Mark Ruffalo called out in support of protestors blocking the red carpet at the Awards.

Mark Ruffalo has shown support for the LGBT community; however, he has received backlash from the transgender community for supporting the casting of Matt Bomer, a cisgender man, to play a trans woman in the film Anything, on which Ruffalo was an executive producer.

In 2023, Ruffalo sought to block the sale of the West Park Presbyterian Church, a city landmark built in the 1880s, to prevent its demolition and construction of housing in its place.

February 2016, Mark Ruffalo tweeted a Tech Times article in which a group of Argentinian doctors attributed the cause of a microcephaly outbreak in Brazil to the use of a larvicide chemical added to reservoirs of drinking water to combat dengue fever, rather than the Zika virus.

On February 8,2024, accompanied by his wife Sunrise Coigney as well as the two elder of his three children, Mark Ruffalo received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.