Mark Rylance
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.
63 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 63
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Ready Player One
2018
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Outfit
2022
Dunkirk
2017
Wolf Hall
2015
Bing
2014
Don't Look Up
2021
Intimacy
2001
ScreenPlay
1986
Bridge of Spies
2015
Bones and All
2022
The BFG
2016
Blitz
2011
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
The Undeclared War
2022
My Grandparents' War
2019
The Nightingale
2027
Anonymous
2011
The Gunman
2015
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020
Angels and Insects
1995
The Phantom of the Open
2022
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995
Days and Nights
2014
The Way of the Wind
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
1985
Muse of Fire
2013
Artificial
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Hearts of Fire
1987
Prospero's Books
1991
The Government Inspector
2005
Leonardo
2003
The Grass Arena
1992
We Are Many
2014
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Love Lies Bleeding
1993
The McGuffin
1986
Loving
1996
Twelfth Night
2012
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
2015
Hamlet {Solo}
2007
Measure for Measure: Live from the Globe
2004
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016
Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe
1997
On the Edge
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In Lambeth
1993
Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2003
Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe
2004
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
2020
Inland
2023
Spirit of Place
2024
Searching for Shakespeare
2025
Shakespeare's Globe
2005
The Colorado
2016
Much Ado About Something
2001
Nice Fish
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Inside The Institute
2010
Incident in Judaea
1991
The Flaneur
2019