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Birth Name:Mark Alan Ruffalo
Famous As: Actor
Date of Birth: November 22, 1967
Place of Birth: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Height: 5' 9
Nationality: American
Father: Frank Ruffalo
Mother: Maria Ruffalo
Brother(s): Scott Ruffalo (Hairdresser)
Sister(s): Tania Ruffalo (Hairdresser), Nicole Ruffalo (Hairdresser)
Spouse: Sunrise Coigney (since June 2000)
Son(s): Keen Ruffalo (b. 2001)
Daughter(s): Bella (b. May 2005)
Education: Graduated from First Colonial High School in Newport Beach, VA
Graduated from Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles
Claim to Fame: As Terry Prescott in You Can Count on Me (2000)

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Mark Ruffalo

Ruffalo at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Mark Alan Ruffalo
November 22, 1967 (1967-11-22) (age 42)
Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Years active 1989–present
Spouse(s) Sunrise Coigney (2000–present)

Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Stan in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inspector David Toschi in the 2007 film Zodiac and US Marshal Chuck Aule in Shutter Island. Ruffalo has also appeared as a romantic leading-man in successful "chick flicks" such as View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005).1

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Early life

Ruffalo, of Italian and French-Canadian descent,2 was born in the industrial town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Marie Rose, a hairdresser and stylist, and Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., a construction painter.134 He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott,1 who died in December 2008. Ruffalo has described himself as a "happy kid"5 and his upbringing as taking place in a "very big Italian family with lots of love".6 He attended a progressive school and was raised around the local Bahá'í community, of which his father was a member.1 Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School.1 Ruffalo then moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, California, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company.1 With the OTC, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays and spent the next nine years earning his money as a bartender.

Career

Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's acclaimed Civil War Western Ride with the Devil (1999). Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, Ruffalo began collaborating with Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This is Our Youth (1998), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's troubled, aimless drifter brother Terry in Longeran's acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me.1 He received favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.1

This led to other significant roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me alongside Sarah Polley (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut alongside Meg Ryan (2003), Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based upon two short stories written by Andre Dubus.1 He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's acclaimed crime-thriller Collateral (2004).1 More recently, Ruffalo has appeared as a romantic lead in "chick flicks" such as View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005).1 In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theatre in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.1 In March 2007, he appeared in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer from 1969 through most of the 1970s.1 In 2007 Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz. In 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz. In 2009, he played a brief role in the film Where The Wild Things Are as Max's mother's boyfriend. In 2010, he costarred in the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island as U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, the partner of Leonardo Dicaprio's character Teddy Daniels.

Personal life

In 2002, Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor, and had surgery; the tumor was benign, but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis.3 He fully recovered from the paralysis and returned to good health as well as an active life and movie career.

On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo's brother, Scott, was shot at his Beverly Hills condominium,7 with one report describing the shooting as "execution-style" in the back of the head.8 Scott died on December 8, 2008. Police took two people into custody: a woman who is considered a suspect and a man considered a "person of interest".9 One of the suspects reportedly told police that Scott Ruffalo shot himself while playing Russian roulette;10 the witnesses were later released as the police investigation continued.11

Since June 2000, he has been married to French-American actress Sunrise Coigney (born Christina Sunrise Coigney on September 17, 1972 in San Francisco), and they have three children: a son Keen, born in 2001, and daughters Bella Noche, born in 2005, and Odette, born in 2007, in Los Angeles, California.12

Political views

On October 4, 2006, he appeared on daily news program, Democracy Now!, and spoke against the war in Iraq, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, torture and the Bush administration in general. He also announced his speaking engagement at the The World Can't Wait protest in New York City on October 5, 2006. Ruffalo contributed to Mike Gravel in his 2008 presidential bid.13

In October 2007, Ruffalo criticized the 9/11 Commission Report as "completely illegitimate" and called for re-opening the investigation. He said: "I saw the way they all came down and I am baffled. My first reaction is that buildings don't fall down like that." He also criticized the 9/11 truth movement, saying "There's so much information that's been put out there by truth for 9/11 and it's ... so much of it has been kind of stretched that a lot of people are grabbing a hold of the more kind of sensational parts of what doesn't jibe with the story to discredit the movement."14

Filmography

Year Film Role
1996 The Last Big Thing Brent Benedict
The Dentist Steve Landers
1997 On the 2nd Day of Christmas Bert
1998 Safe Men Frank
54 Ricko
1999 Ride with the Devil Alf Bowden
2000 You Can Count on Me Terry Prescott
Committed T-Bo
2001 The Last Castle Yates
Life/Drawing (AKA Apartment 12) Alex
2002 XX/XY Coles
Windtalkers Private Pappas
2003 My Life Without Me Lee
View from the Top Ted Stewart
In the Cut Detective Malloy
2004 We Don't Live Here Anymore Jack Linden
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Stan
13 Going on 30 Matt Flamhaff
Collateral Fanning
2005 Just Like Heaven David Abbott
Rumor Has It Jeff Daly
2006 All the King's Men Adam Stanton
2007 Zodiac Inspector David Toschi
Reservation Road Dwight Arno
2008 Blindness Doctor
What Doesn't Kill You Brian Reilly
2009 The Brothers Bloom Stephen
Margaret Jason Berstone
Where the Wild Things Are Connie's Boyfriend
Sympathy for Delicious
2010 Shutter Island Chuck Aule
Date Night
The Kids Are All Right Paul

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Mark Ruffalo". Inside the Actors Studio. Bravo!. 2007-03-19. No. 6, season 13.
  2. ^ "Ruffalo ascends to the next level in 'Heaven'." USA Today. September 15, 2005.
  3. ^ a b Radar, Dotson (2004-05-09). "I Wouldn't Give Any Of It Back". Parade. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2004/edition_05-09-2004/featured_0. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  4. ^ Baldassarre, Angela (2007-03-04). "On the trail of a real-life serial killer". Tandem. http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=7084. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  5. ^ Pearlman, Cindy (2007-02-25). "Working on a killer movie". Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/271775,SHO-Sunday-movies25.article. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  6. ^ Dudek, Duane (2000-12-20). "United by loss: Ruffalo nails his role in drama about 2 siblings who share painful past". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www2.jsonline.com/enter/movies/dudek/dec00/count21122000.asp?format=print. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  7. ^ Jones, Oliver. "Mark Ruffalo's Brother Shot in the Head." People. December 3, 2008.
  8. ^ "Scott Ruffalo still in critical condition." Boston Herald. December 5, 2008.
  9. ^ "Ruffalo Dies." TMZ. December 9, 2008.
  10. ^ "Actor Mark Ruffalo's brother, Scott, died after playing Russian Roulette, says murder suspect." New YorkDaily News, December 9, 2008.
  11. ^ "Autopsy scheduled for Scott Ruffalo," Associated Press, December 11, 2008.
  12. ^ "Mark Ruffalo, Wife Expecting Third Child". People. 2007-03-09. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20014646,00.html. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  13. ^ "Election Center 2008: Mike Gravel". http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/mike.gravel.html. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  14. ^ YouTube - MARK RUFFALO questions 9/11

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