Mark Ruffalo
Like many other actors who were tagged "best of a generation," Mark Ruffalo's roots were in theater and independent film where his honest, open character approach was applauded. His breakout stage role in Kenneth Lonergan's acclaimed "This Is Our Youth" led Lonergan to give Ruffalo the lead in his film directorial debut "You Can Count on Me" (2000), which earned countless festival awards and had critics buzzing about the little-known actor's subtle, compelling performance as a cerebral but aimless young adult with an arrest record and a pregnant teenage girlfriend. Hollywood came courting, but struggled with a tidy niche in which to put the darkly handsome actor; first offering him small but effective character roles as "conflicted" types in big budget thrillers like "Collateral" (2004) before unsuccessfully making the understated actor into a bland leading man in romantic comedies like "Just Like Heaven" (2005). Ruffalo eventually found an appropriate arena somewhere between the multiplex and the art house, favored by character-driven directors like Jane Campion, David Fincher, Steven Zaillian and eventually Martin Scorsese - all of whom capitalized on the actor's talent for believably disappearing into complex, empathetic characters.
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Mark Ruffalo
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey 17 | Hieronymous Marshall (Character) | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Revealed: How to Poison a Planet | Self | - | 2024 |
93% |
|
Poor Things | Duncan Wedderburn (Character) | $34.5M | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Burned: Protecting the Protector | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
100% |
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Lakota Nation vs. United States | Executive Producer | $88.1K | 2022 |
68% |
|
The Adam Project | Louis Reed (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonnie | Self | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Groundswell | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
89% |
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Dark Waters |
Robert Bilott (Character), Producer |
$11.1M | 2019 |
94% |
|
Avengers: Endgame |
Bruce Banner/ |
$858.4M | 2019 |
85% |
|
Avengers: Infinity War |
Bruce Banner/ |
$678.8M | 2018 |
65% |
|
Anything | Executive Producer | $18.1K | 2017 |
93% |
|
Thor: Ragnarok |
Bruce Banner/ |
$315.0M | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Dear President Obama |
Narrator, Executive Producer |
- | 2016 |
34% |
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Now You See Me 2 | Dylan Rhodes (Character) | $65.0M | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Team Thor: Part 1 | Bruce Banner (Character) | - | 2016 |
97% |
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Spotlight | Michael Rezendes (Character) | $45.0M | 2015 |
76% |
|
Avengers: Age of Ultron |
Bruce Banner/ |
$459.0M | 2015 |
83% |
|
Infinitely Polar Bear |
Cam (Character), Executive Producer |
$1.4M | 2014 |
88% |
|
Foxcatcher | Dave Schultz (Character) | $12.1M | 2014 |
94% |
|
The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks (Character) | - | 2014 |
83% |
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Begin Again | Dan (Character) | $16.2M | 2013 |
51% |
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Now You See Me | Dylan Rhodes (Character) | $117.7M | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Triple Divide | Narrator | - | 2013 |
50% |
|
Thanks for Sharing | Adam (Character) | $1.1M | 2012 |
91% |
|
Marvel's the Avengers |
Bruce Banner/ |
- | 2012 |
75% |
|
Margaret | Jason Berstone (Character) | $46.5K | 2011 |
31% |
|
Sympathy for Delicious |
Joe (Character), Director |
$13.1K | 2010 |
93% |
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The Kids Are All Right | Paul (Character) | $20.8M | 2010 |
67% |
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Date Night | Brad Sullivan (Character) | $98.7M | 2010 |
69% |
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Shutter Island | Chuck Aule (Character) | $128.0M | 2010 |
73% |
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Where the Wild Things Are | Boyfriend (Character) | $77.2M | 2009 |
68% |
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The Brothers Bloom | Stephen (Character) | $3.5M | 2008 |
66% |
|
What Doesn't Kill You | Brian (Character) | - | 2008 |
44% |
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Blindness | Doctor (Character) | $3.1M | 2008 |
80% |
|
Chicago 10 | Jerry Rubin (Voice) | $176.5K | 2007 |
38% |
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Reservation Road | Dwight Arno (Character) | $101.4K | 2007 |
90% |
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Zodiac | Dave Toschi (Character) | $33.0M | 2007 |
12% |
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All the King's Men | Adam Stanton (Character) | $7.2M | 2006 |
21% |
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Rumor Has It ... | Jeff Daly (Character) | $43.0M | 2005 |
54% |
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Just Like Heaven | David Abbott (Character) | $48.3M | 2005 |
86% |
|
Collateral | Fanning (Character) | $100.0M | 2004 |
65% |
|
We Don't Live Here Anymore |
Jack Linden (Character), Executive Producer |
$2.0M | 2004 |
92% |
|
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Stan (Character) | $34.1M | 2004 |
64% |
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13 Going on 30 | Matt Flamhaff (Character) | $56.0M | 2004 |
65% |
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My Life Without Me | Lee (Character) | $395.6K | 2003 |
34% |
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In the Cut | Detective Malloy (Character) | $4.7M | 2003 |
14% |
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View From the Top | Ted (Character) | $15.6M | 2003 |
42% |
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XX/XY | Coles (Character) | $103.9K | 2002 |
32% |
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Windtalkers | Pappas (Character) | $40.9M | 2002 |
52% |
|
The Last Castle | Yates (Character) | $18.2M | 2001 |
43% |
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Committed | T-Bo (Character) | $31.8K | 2000 |
95% |
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You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott (Character) | $9.2M | 2000 |
64% |
|
Ride With the Devil | Alf Bowden (Character) | $630.8K | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Life/Drawing | Alex (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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A Fish in the Bathtub | Joel (Character) | $1.2K | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Houdini | Theo (Character) | - | 1998 |
57% |
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Safe Men | Frank (Character) | $36.7K | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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On the 2nd Day of Christmas | Bert (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyeur | Joey (Character) | - | 1996 |
67% |
|
The Last Big Thing | Brent (Character) | $18.2K | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Gift From Heaven | Unknown (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance | Christian (Character) | - | 1993 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Ones | Unknown (Character) | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2014 2024 |
89% | 79% | What If...? |
Bruce Banner (Guest Voice), Unknown (Voice) |
2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015 2017 2019 2023 |
27% | 81% | All the Light We Cannot See | Daniel LeBlanc (Character) | 2023 |
79% | 32% | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law |
Bruce Banner/ |
2022 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2011 2013 2015 2018 2020 |
74% | 87% | I Know This Much Is True |
Dominick Birdsey/ Executive Producer |
2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2012 2014-2015 2020 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014-2016 2018-2020 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2012 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2015 |
100% | 78% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lopez Tonight | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2004 |
92% | No Score Yet | The Beat | Officer Zane Marinelli (Character) | 2000 |