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Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor.
Early life
Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to second-generation Italian American parents Frank Ruffalo, a construction painter, and Maria, a hairdresser and stylist. He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott. Ruffalo has described himself as a "happy kid" and his upbringing as taking place in a "very big Italian family with lots of love". Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. He graduated from First Colonial High School and then moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, California where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company. With the OTC, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, but overall his luck with acting was not great, and he spent the next 9 years earning his living being a bartender.
Career
Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's acclaimed Civil War Western Ride With the Devil (1999). Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, Ruffalo began collaborating with Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1998), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's troubled, aimless drifter brother Terry in Longeran's acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me. He received strongly favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.
This led to other significant opportunities, including the films XX/XY (2002), My Life Without Me (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based upon two short stories written by Andre Dubus. He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as another homicide detective in Michael Mann's acclaimed crime-thriller Collateral (2004). More recently, Ruffalo has appeared as a romantic lead in "chick flicks" such as View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005). In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theater in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
Personal life
In 2002, Ruffalo was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had surgery, which resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis, even though the tumor was found to be benign. He fully recovered from the paralysis and returned to good health as well as an active life and movie career. He has been married to actress Sunrise Coigney since June of 2000, and they have two children: a son Keen born in 2001, and a daughter Bella born in 2005, and are expecting a third child in the fall. They opened an L.A. boutique, Kaviar and Kind.
On October 4, 2006, he appeared on daily news program Democracy Now! to speak against the war on Iraq, the Miltiary Commissions Act, torture, and the Bush administration in general. He also announced that he would be speaking at the The World Can't Wait protest in New York City on October 5, 2006.
Selected filmography
* Zodiac (2007)
* All the King's Men (2006)
* Rumor Has It (2005)
* Just Like Heaven (2005)
* Collateral (2004)
* 13 Going on 30 (2004)
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
* In the Cut (2003)
* View from the Top (2003)
* My Life Without Me (2003)
* Windtalkers (2002)
* XX/XY (2002)
* Apartment 12 (2001)
* The Last Castle (2001)
* Committed (2000)
* You Can Count on Me (2000)
* Ride with the Devil (1999)
* 54 (1998)
* Safe Men (1998)
* The Dentist (1996)
* The Last Big Thing (1996)
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