Mark Rylance
Acting
Born 1960-01-18 · 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.
Acting
On the Edge
(voice)
The Nightingale
Searching for Shakespeare
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Flop (voice)
Spirit of Place
Inland
Dunleavy
Bones and All
Sully
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self
The Undeclared War
John Yeabsley
The Phantom of the Open
Maurice Flitcroft
The Outfit
Leonard Burling
Don't Look Up
Peter Isherwell
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
Flop
The Trial of the Chicago 7
William Kunstler
Waiting for the Barbarians
The Magistrate
My Grandparents' War
Self
The Flaneur
Narrator
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Self
Ready Player One
Anorak / Halliday
Dunkirk
Mr. Dawson
The BFG
The BFG
The Colorado
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Self
Bridge of Spies
Rudolf Abel
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
Self
The Gunman
Terrance Cox
Wolf Hall
Thomas Cromwell
Days and Nights
Stephen
Bing
Narrator / Flop (voice)
We Are Many
Self