Mark Rylance 1960 65
Mark Rylance 1960 65
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960 in Ashford, Kent, England) is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright.
He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, between 1995 and 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001). Rylance won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015). Rylance played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl, and appeared in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II. He appeared as James Halliday in Spielberg's 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the novel of the same name.
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2025 The Way of the Wind as Satan
2025 Searching for Shakespeare
2024 Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration as Flop (voice)
2024 Spirit of Place
2023 Inland as Dunleavy
2022 Bones and All as Sully
2022 The Phantom of the Open as Maurice Flitcroft Executive Producer
2022 The Outfit as Leonard Burling
2021 Don't Look Up as Peter Isherwell
2020 Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories as Flop
2020 The Trial of the Chicago 7 as William Kunstler
2019 Waiting for the Barbarians as The Magistrate
2018 Nothing Is Truer than Truth as Self
2018 Ready Player One as Anorak / Halliday
2017 Dunkirk as Mr. Dawson
2016 The BFG as The BFG
2015 Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
2015 Wolf Hall: The Inside Story as Self
2015 The Gunman as Terrance Cox
2014 Days and Nights as Stephen
2014 We Are Many as Self
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2012 Twelfth Night as Olivia
2011 Anonymous as Condell
2011 Blitz as Roberts
2010 Inside The Institute as Self
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl as Sir Thomas Boleyn
2007 Hamlet {Solo} as Self
2005 Shakespeare's Globe as Himself
2005 The Government Inspector as Dr. David Kelly
2004 Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna
2003 Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Richard II
2001 Much Ado About Something as Himself
2001 Intimacy as Jay
1997 Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe as Henry V
1996 Loving as Charlie Raunce
1995 Angels and Insects as William Adamson
1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life as Jakob
1993 In Lambeth as William Blake
1993 Love Lies Bleeding as Conn Ellis
1992 The Grass Arena as John Healy
1991 Prospero's Books as Ferdinand
1987 Hearts of Fire as Fizz
1986 The McGuffin as Gavin