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.
Mark Rylance Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mark Rylance |
| Also Know | David Mark Rylance Waters, ë§ˆí¬ ë¼ì´ëŸ°ìŠ¤, 马克·里朗斯, 大å«Â·é©¬å…‹Â·é‡Œæœ—斯·沃特斯 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Ashford, Kent, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1960-01-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 62 |
| Deathday |
Mark Rylance Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Angels and Insects | William Adamson | 1995-09-10 | In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries t… |
| Richard II – Live at Shakespeare’s Globe | Richard II | 2003-09-06 | A performance of Shakespeare’s Richard II broadcast live from the Globe Theatre, London…. |
| Loving | Charlie Raunce | 1996-10-19 | An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler,… |
| The Grass Arena | John Healy | 1992-01-19 | The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he … |
| The Government Inspector | Dr. David Kelly | 2005-03-17 | The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom…. |
| The BFG | The BFG | 2016-06-01 | The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle o… |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Conn Ellis | 1993-09-22 | Conn is an IRA murderer serving a life sentence in an Irish prison. He is given a 24 hour home leave during which he goes from point to point in Belfa… |
| In Lambeth | William Blake | 1993-07-04 | All is peaceful in the garden of William Blake – a sanctuary from the stirrings of revolution on the streets. The arrival of an unexpected visitor, T… |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | The Magistrate | 2019-09-06 | At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals a… |
| The Phantom of the Open | Maurice Flitcroft | 2022-03-18 | Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently… |
| The Outfit | Leonard Burling | 2022-03-03 | Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, oper… |
| Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe | Vincentio, Duke of Vienna | 2004-09-04 | William Shakespeare’s darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the play w… |
| Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe | Henry V | 1997-11-05 | A documentary about Shakespeare’s Globe opening performance of “Henry V” in 1997. The documentary combines the performance of Act IV with rehearsal s… |
| Inland | Dunleavy | 2022-10-14 | A young man, of Romani descent, returns to his hometown of Gloucester. He is met by local garage mechanic, Dunleavy. They embrace, smiling. But what p… |
| Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life | Jakob | 1995-08-01 | Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men,… |
| Much Ado About Something | Himself | 2001-09-08 | Did Christopher Marlowe write the works of Shakespeare?… |
| Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel | 2015-10-15 | During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, … |
| Shakespeare’s Globe | Himself | 2005-07-03 | Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. It charts a vivid journey from the r… |
| Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories | Flop | 2020-11-25 | It’s Christmas! Come & celebrate the festive season with Bing… at the Cinema! Meet Nicky… Sula’s adorable cousin and open presents with Bing, Flop… |
| Intimacy | Jay | 2001-01-20 | Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman co… |
| Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 | Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary fo… |
| The McGuffin | 1986-01-12 | Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie crit… | |
| Dunkirk | Mr. Dawson | 2017-07-19 | The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army… |
| The Way of the Wind | Satan | A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ…. | |
| The Brutalist | When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives… | ||
| Bones and All | Sully | 2022-11-23 | Abandoned by her father, a young woman named Maren embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets Lee, a disenfra… |
| The Dunkirk Spirit: Behind the Making of the Movie | Himself | 2018-02-12 | Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s sweeping, emotional epic. Dunkirk opens as… |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Sir Thomas Boleyn | 2008-02-28 | A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sister… |
| The Gunman | Terrance Cox | 2015-02-16 | Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country’s minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering f… |
| Nothing Is Truer than Truth | 2018-04-29 | NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circ… | |
| Inside The Institute | 2010-01-01 | Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life… | |
| We Are Many | Himself | 2014-06-08 | The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq…. |
| Ready Player One | James Halliday / Anorak | 2018-03-28 | When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune…. |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | William Kunstler | 2020-09-25 | What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history…. |
| Don’t Look Up | Peter Isherwell | 2021-12-07 | Two American astronomers attempt to warn humankind about an approaching comet that will wipe out life on planet Earth…. |
| Prospero’s Books | Ferdinand | 1991-08-30 | An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un… |
| Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story | Nikki Fodor | 1985-04-07 | The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust…. |
| Twelfth Night | Olivia | 2012-05-04 | ‘Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.’ Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines cruelty with high comedy and the pa… |
| Days and Nights | Stephen | 2014-09-26 | Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek… |
| Hearts of Fire | Fizz | 1987-11-06 | A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her … |
| Blitz | Roberts | 2011-05-20 | A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers…. |
| Anonymous | Condell | 2011-10-21 | Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac… |
Mark Rylance Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Phantom of the Open | Executive Producer | 2022-03-18 | Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently… |
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