Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1960-01-18 (Age: 66)
Place of Birth
Ashford, Kent, England, UK
Mark Rylance
Biography
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.
Filmography (49)
The Nightingale
2027
Searching for Shakespeare
2025
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Spirit of Place
2024
Inland
2023
Bones and All
2022
The Phantom of the Open
2022
The Outfit
2022
Don't Look Up
2021
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020
The Flaneur
2019
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
