Born:
November 22, 1967
in
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Best Known For:
The Kids Are All Right and The Avengers.
Early-life:
Mark Alan Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1967 to Marie and Frank. He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott. He spent his teenage years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and later moved with his family to San Diego and Los Angeles. He took acting classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company. While trying to establish an acting career, he made ends meet working as a bartender.
Career:
Ruffalo was in the original cast of Kenneth Lonergan's stage play This is Our Youth, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1996. He went on to star alongside Laura Linney in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated movie You Can Count on Me (2000). Film roles followed in XX/XY (2002), In the Cut (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Rumour Has It (2005), Zodiac (2007) and Where the Wild Things Are (2009). He won an Academy Award nomination for The Kids Are All Right (2010) and went on to star in Shutter Island (2010), Date Night (2010), The Avengers (2012), Now You See Me (2013) and Begin Again (2014).
Quote:
"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
Trivia:
He is opposed to fracking.