Mark Rylance
English actor, playwright and theatre director · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1960 · age 66
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards.
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Searching for ShakespeareFilm2023
InlandFilm, Dunleavy2022
Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSeries2021
Don't Look UpFilm, Peter Isherwell2019
My Grandparents' WarSeries2018
Nothing Is Truer than TruthFilm2017Knight BachelorAward2016Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAwardBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAwardBritish Academy Television Award for Best ActorAward
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of SpiesFilm, 20162015
Wolf HallSeries, Thomas Cromwell2014Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a PlayAward
BingSeries, 2014Narrator / Flop (voice)
Days and NightsFilm, 2014Stephen2013
Muse of FireFilm2011Tony Award for Best Actor in a PlayAward
AnonymousFilm, 2011Condell2008Theatre World AwardAward2005
The Government InspectorFilm, Dr. David Kelly2003
LeonardoSeries, Leonardo2001
IntimacyFilm, Jay1995
Angels and InsectsFilm, William Adamson1991
Prospero's BooksFilm, Ferdinand1986
The McGuffinFilm, Gavin1985
Screen TwoSeries, Charlie Raunce1982
American PlayhouseSeries, William Adamson1978
The South Bank ShowSeries1971
Great PerformancesSeries, King Henry V1960Born18 January 1960People around Mark
Steven Spielberg Directed Bridge of Spies and Ready Player One
Kristie Macosko Krieger Produced Bridge of Spies and Ready Player One
Marc Platt Produced Bridge of Spies (2015)
Luca Guadagnino Directed Bones and All and Artificial
Timothée Chalamet Produced Bones and All (2022)
Kenneth Branagh Duets: Iago, also in Dunkirk (2017)
Liev Schreiber Duets: Iago, also in Don't Look Up (2021)
Alice Krige Also in Institute Benjamenta (1995)
Rafe Spall Also in The BFG and Anonymous
Philip Haas Directed Angels & Insects (1995)
Peter Kosminsky Directed Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Andrew Garfield Also in Artificial and The Other Boleyn Girl
Christopher Nolan Produced Dunkirk (2017)
Eddie Redmayne Also in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
John Williams Wrote The BFG (2016)
Morrissey Also in The Other Boleyn Girl and Blitz
Jemaine Clement Also in The BFG and The BFG film poster
Penelope Wilton Also in The BFG and The BFG film poster
Rory Kinnear Duets: Iago
Christian Camargo Directed Days and Nights (2015)
Ruby Barnhill Also in The BFG and The BFG film poster
Justin Chadwick Directed The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Jonathan Aris Also in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Olga Segura Produced Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Ready Player One 2018
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life 1995
Dunkirk 2017
Bridge of Spies 2015
Filmography 40
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Television 13
Media & music
Photos 6
Rylance started his career acting in numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Rylance has acted in numerous plays of William Shakespeare
Rylance with Steven Spielberg and co-star Ruby Barnhill in 2016
Rylance at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2019
Rylance speaking at a rally of the Stop the War Coalition against the war in Syria in London in 2015Awards
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In 2016 he was included in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2017 he was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II.
