Mark Rylance
Acting
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.
Born: January 18, 1960
Place of Birth: Ashford, Kent, England, UK
Known For
Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
A performance of Shakespeare's Richard II broadcast live from the Globe Theatre, London.
Searching for Shakespeare
Actor Gustavo Garzón and theater director Mariana Sagasti seek to puzzle out the real author behind one of the most important figures in universal literature: William Shakespeare.
Leonardo
An exploration of the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
The Grass Arena
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
The Government Inspector
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Ready Player One
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Wolf Hall
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Twelfth Night
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.' Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines cruelty with high comedy and the pangs of unrequited love with some of the subtlest poetry and most exquisite songs Shakespeare ever wrote. The Globe revisits its award-winning Twelfth Night of 2002 with an all-male Original Practices production, exploring clothing, music, dance and settings possible in the Globe of around 1601. Mark Rylance reprises his performance of Olivia in Twelfth Night, 10 years after its original premiere at Middle Temple Hall and The Globe. Synopsis In the household of Olivia, two campaigns are being quietly waged - one by the lovesick lord Orsino against the heart of the indifferent Olivia; the other by an alliance of servants and hangers-on against the high-handedness of her steward, the pompous Malvolio. When Orsino engages the cross-dressed Viola to plead with Olivia on his behalf, a bittersweet chain of events follows.
Filmography
as Flop (voice)
as Dunleavy
as Sully
as Self
as John Yeabsley
as Maurice Flitcroft
as Leonard Burling
as Peter Isherwell
as William Kunstler
as Self
as The Magistrate
as Self
as Anorak / Halliday
as Mr. Dawson
as The BFG
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Rudolf Abel
as Terrance Cox
as Thomas Cromwell
as Stephen
as Narrator / Flop (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Olivia
as Condell
as Roberts
as Self
as Sir Thomas Boleyn
as Self
as Himself
as Dr. David Kelly
as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna
as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna
as Richard II
as Leonardo
as Himself
as Jay
as Henry V
as Charlie Raunce
as William Adamson
as William Blake
as Conn Ellis
as John Healy
as Ferdinand
as Fizz
as Gavin
as Nikki Fodor
as King Henry V
as Self - Winner
as Satan
as Geoffrey Hinton