Mark Rylance

Known for ActingBorn 1960-01-18 (age 66)Ashford, Kent, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Searching for Shakespeare

Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Love Lies Bleeding

Leonardo

The Grass Arena

The Government Inspector

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Twelfth Night

Ready Player One

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

Wolf Hall

Dunkirk

My Grandparents' War

Bridge of Spies

The Outfit

Don't Look Up

Bones and All

The Phantom of the Open

Screen Two

We Are Many

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Undeclared War

Prospero's Books

Muse of Fire

Anonymous

The BFG

The McGuffin

Blitz

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Intimacy

Angels and Insects

Waiting for the Barbarians

The Gunman

ScreenPlay

Great Performances

Inland

Much Ado About Something

Days and Nights

Hearts of Fire

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Loving

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

On the Edge

The Nightingale

Spirit of Place

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories

The Flaneur