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Mark Rylance
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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 eβ¦
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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.
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Mark Rylance's Filmography
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On the Edge
as (voice)

The Nightingale

Artificial
as Geoffrey Hinton

Searching for Shakespeare

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)

Spirit of Place

Inland
as Dunleavy

Bones and All
as Sully

The Phantom of the Open
as Maurice Flitcroft

The Outfit
as Leonard Burling

Don't Look Up
as Peter Isherwell

Bingβs Christmas and Other Stories
as Flop

The Trial of the Chicago 7
as William Kunstler

Waiting for the Barbarians
as The Magistrate
No Poster
The Flaneur
as Narrator

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
as Self

Ready Player One
as Anorak / Halliday

Dunkirk
as Mr. Dawson

The BFG
as The BFG

The Colorado
as Self - Narrator (voice)

A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
as Self

Bridge of Spies
as Rudolf Abel
No Poster
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
as Self

The Gunman
as Terrance Cox

Days and Nights
as Stephen

We Are Many
as Self

Muse of Fire
as Self

Twelfth Night
as Olivia

Anonymous
as Condell

Blitz
as Roberts

Inside The Institute
as Self

The Other Boleyn Girl
as Sir Thomas Boleyn

Hamlet {Solo}
as Self

Shakespeare's Globe
as Himself

The Government Inspector
as Dr. David Kelly

Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe
as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna

Measure for Measure: Live from the Globe
as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna

Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Richard II

Much Ado About Something
as Himself

Intimacy
as Jay

Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe
as Henry V

Loving
as Charlie Raunce

Angels and Insects
as William Adamson

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Jakob

In Lambeth
as William Blake

Love Lies Bleeding
as Conn Ellis

The Grass Arena
as John Healy

Prospero's Books
as Ferdinand
No Poster
Incident in Judaea

Hearts of Fire
as Fizz

The McGuffin
as Gavin

The Way of the Wind
as Satan
No Poster