Mark Rylance
Biography
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.
Filmography
On the Edge
2027
as (voice)
The Nightingale
2027
Artificial
2026
as Geoffrey Hinton
Searching for Shakespeare
2025
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
as Flop (voice)
Spirit of Place
2024
Inland
2023
as Dunleavy
Bones and All
2022
as Sully
The Phantom of the Open
2022
as Maurice Flitcroft
The Outfit
2022
as Leonard Burling
Don't Look Up
2021
as Peter Isherwell
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
2020
as Flop
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
as William Kunstler
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020
as The Magistrate
- No poster
The Flaneur
2019
as Narrator
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
as Self
Ready Player One
2018
as Anorak / Halliday
Dunkirk
2017
as Mr. Dawson
The BFG
2016
as The BFG
The Colorado
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016
as Self
Bridge of Spies
2015
as Rudolf Abel
- No poster
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
2015
as Self
The Gunman
2015
as Terrance Cox