Mark Rylance
Actor
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
Ready Player One
as Anorak / Halliday 2018
Don't Look Up
as Peter Isherwell 2021
Bridge of Spies
as Rudolf Abel 2015
The BFG
as The BFG 2016
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as William Kunstler 2020
The Other Boleyn Girl
as Sir Thomas Boleyn 2008
Blitz
as Roberts 2011
Bones and All
as Sully 2022
The Outfit
as Leonard Burling 2022
The Gunman
as Terrance Cox 2015
Anonymous
as Condell 2011
Intimacy
as Jay 2001
Waiting for the Barbarians
as The Magistrate 2019
The Phantom of the Open
as Maurice Flitcroft 2022
Prospero's Books
as Ferdinand 1991
Angels and Insects
as William Adamson 1995