Acting credits
62
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Mark Rylance
Acting
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Movies: 49Series: 13Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 40900
IMDb ID: nm0753314
Known for: Acting
Born: January 18, 1960
Age: 66
Place of birth: Ashford, Kent, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1956 - 2027
Years active: 72
Average TMDB rating: 6.65
Wikidata: Q324572
Also known as
David Mark Rylance Waters • Mark Rylance Waters • Sir David Mark Rylance Waters
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Mark Rylance.
May 6, 2027
On the Edge
as (voice)
2027 Movie
Mar 18, 2027
The Nightingale
2027 Movie
Dec 25
Artificial
as Geoffrey Hinton
2026 Movie
Searching for Shakespeare
2025 Movie
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
2024 Movie
Spirit of Place
2024 Movie
Inland
as Dunleavy
2023 Movie
Bones and All
as Sully
2022 Movie
The Phantom of the Open
as Maurice Flitcroft
2022 Movie
The Outfit
as Leonard Burling
2022 Movie
Don't Look Up
as Peter Isherwell
2021 Movie
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
as Flop
2020 Movie
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as William Kunstler
2020 Movie
Waiting for the Barbarians
as The Magistrate
2020 Movie
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
as Self
2018 Movie
Ready Player One
as Anorak / Halliday
2018 Movie
Dunkirk
as Mr. Dawson
2017 Movie
The BFG
as The BFG
2016 Movie
The Colorado
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 Movie
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
as Self
2016 Movie
Bridge of Spies
as Rudolf Abel
2015 Movie
The Gunman
as Terrance Cox
2015 Movie
Days and Nights
as Stephen
2014 Movie
We Are Many
as Self
2014 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Mark Rylance.
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
The Undeclared War
as John Yeabsley • 4 eps
2022 Series
My Grandparents' War
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
Wolf Hall
as Thomas Cromwell • 12 eps
2015 Series
Bing
as Narrator / Flop (voice) • 105 eps
2014 Series
Leonardo
as Leonardo • 3 eps
2003 Series
ScreenPlay
as Conn Ellis • 1 eps
1986 Series
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
as Nikki Fodor • 2 eps
1985 Series
Screen Two
as Charlie Raunce • 1 eps
1985 Series
American Playhouse
as William Adamson • 1 eps
1982 Series
The South Bank Show
1 eps
1978 Series
Great Performances
as King Henry V • 1 eps
1971 Series
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner • 2 eps
1956 Series