Indie 'Kids' adopts cast
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Variety - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in "The Kids Are All Right."Director Lisa Cholodenko ... Bening, Moore for 'Kids Are All Right' - Digital Spy The Kids are All Right--Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Bening and now Mia ... - Orlando Sentinel Fivesome to Star in The Kids Are All Right - Coming Soon! Bening And Moore's Kids Are All Right - Empire Online Explore All |
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Producer calls indie world to task
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Hollywood Reporter - Found Jun. 20, 2009 ... the producer (and sometimes-director) behind pics like 'A Chorus Line' doc 'Every Little Step' and Mark Ruffalo con-man movie 'The Brothers... |
Adrien Brody bonds with 'Brothers Bloom' co-star Mark Ruffalo
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Canada East - Found May. 21, 2009 Victoria Ahearn, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A 'bromance' blossomed on the set of 'The Brothers Bloom,' says Adrien Brody, who plays Mark Ruffalo's |
Adrien Brody bonds with 'Brothers Bloom' co-star Mark Ruffalo
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Guelph Mercury - Found May. 20, 2009 Bloom,' says Adrien Brody, who plays Mark Ruffalo's sibling in the comical con caper out this Friday in Toronto. 'I do feel close to Mark,' the... |
Adrien Brody bonds with 'Brothers Bloom' co-star Mark Ruffalo
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CJFW - Found May. 20, 2009 TORONTO - A 'bromance' blossomed on the set of 'The Brothers Bloom,' says Adrien Brody, who plays Mark Ruffalo's sibling in the comical con caper out ... |
Adrien Brody bonds with 'Brothers Bloom' co-star Mark Ruffalo
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Canadian Press - Found May. 20, 2009 TORONTO - A 'bromance' blossomed on the set of 'The Brothers Bloom,' says Adrien Brody, who plays Mark Ruffalo's sibling in the comical con caper out ... |
Gangster films reflect hard times, hard-core attitudes
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NWI Times - Found 11 hours ago What Doesn't Kill You' (2008) -- Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo are childhood friends and bottom-feeding Boston hoods. Ruffalo wants to leave... |
Gangster films reflect hard times, hard-core attitudes
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NWI Times - Found 16 hours ago What Doesn't Kill You' (2008) -- Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo are childhood friends and bottom-feeding Boston hoods. Ruffalo wants to leave... |
Bening, Moore, Ruffalo Know The Kids Are All Right
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Rotten Tomatoes - Found Jul. 2, 2009 ... tale(1378 views) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs(1223 views) Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska... Annette Bening And Julianne Moore Get Hitched - Cinema Blend Cast is set for - Monsters and Critics Explore All |
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BoxOfficeProphets - Found Jul. 2, 2009 But even shows set in what seem to be reality apply some rules early on to establish some exaggeration of that reality. |
Mark Ruffalo Biography
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Mark Ruffalo
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| Mark Ruffalo | |
 Ruffalo at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Mark Alan Ruffalo November 22, 1967 Kenosha, Wisconsin |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989-present |
| Spouse(s) | Sunrise Coigney |
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Fanning opposite Tom Cruise in the 2004 film Collateral, and Inspector David Toschi in the 2007 film Zodiac. Ruffalo has also appeared as a romantic leading-man in successful "chick flicks" such as View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005).1
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Biography
Early life
Ruffalo, of Italian and French-Canadian descent,2 was born in the industrial town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Marie Rose, a hairdresser and stylist, and Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., a construction painter.341 He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott,1 who died in December 2008 from a gunshot wound to the head. Ruffalo has described himself as a "happy kid"5 and his upbringing as taking place in a "very big Italian family with lots of love".6 He attended a progressive school and was raised around the local Bahá'í community, of which his father was a member.1 Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School,1 alma mater of pop and country icon Juice Newton. Ruffalo 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.1 With the OTC, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays and spent the next nine years earning his money as 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.1 He received 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.1
This led to other significant roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me alongside Sarah Polley (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut alongside Meg Ryan (2003), Michel Gondry's 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.1 He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's acclaimed crime-thriller Collateral (2004).1 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).1 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.1 In March, 2007, he appeared in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer from 1969 through most of the 1970s.1 October 2007 saw Ruffalo play divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road based on the same titled novel by John Burnham Schwartz.
Personal life
In 2002, Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor, and had surgery; the tumor was benign, but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis.3 He fully recovered from the paralysis and returned to good health as well as an active life and movie career.
On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo's brother, Scott, was shot at his Beverly Hills condominium,7 with one report describing the shooting as "execution-style" in the back of the head.8 Scott died on December 8, 2008. Police took two people into custody: a woman who is considered a suspect and a man considered a "person of interest".9 One of the suspects reportedly told police that Scott Ruffalo shot himself while playing Russian roulette;10 the witnesses were later released as the police investigation continued.11
Since June 2000, he has been married to French-American actress Sunrise Coigney (born Christina Sunrise Coigney on September 17, 1972 in San Francisco), and they have three children: a son Keen, born in 2001, and daughters Bella Noche, born in 2005, and Odette, born in 2007, in Los Angeles, California.12
Political views
On October 4, 2006, he appeared on daily news program, Democracy Now!, and spoke against the war in Iraq, the Military Commissions Act, torture and the Bush administration in general. He also announced his speaking engagement at the The World Can't Wait protest in New York City on October 5, 2006. Ruffalo contributed to Mike Gravel in his 2008 presidential bid.13
In October 2007, Ruffalo criticized the 9/11 Commission Report as "completely illegitimate" and called for re-opening the investigation. He said: "I saw the way they all came down and I am baffled. My first reaction is that buildings don't fall down like that." He also criticized the 9/11 truth movement, saying "There's so much information that's been put out there by truth for 9/11 and it's ... so much of it has been kind of stretched that a lot of people are grabbing a hold of the more kind of sensational parts of what doesn't jibe with the story to discredit the movement."14
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
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| 1996 | The Last Big Thing | Brent Benedict |
| The Dentist | Steve Landers | |
| 1997 | On the 2nd Day of Christmas | Bert |
| 1998 | Safe Men | Frank |
| 54 | Ricko | |
| 1999 | Ride with the Devil | Alf Bowden |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott |
| Committed | T-Bo | |
| 2001 | The Last Castle | Yates |
| Life/Drawing (AKA Apartment 12) | Alex | |
| 2002 | XX/XY | Coles |
| Windtalkers | Private Pappas | |
| 2003 | My Life Without Me | Lee |
| View from the Top | Ted Stewart | |
| In the Cut | Detective Malloy | |
| 2004 | We Don't Live Here Anymore | Jack Linden |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Stan | |
| 13 Going on 30 | Matt Flamhaff | |
| Collateral | Fanning | |
| 2005 | Just Like Heaven | David Abbott |
| Rumor Has It | Jeff Daly | |
| 2006 | All the King's Men | Adam Stanton |
| 2007 | Zodiac | Inspector David Toschi |
| Reservation Road | Dwight Arno | |
| 2008 | Blindness | Doctor |
| What Doesn't Kill You | Brian Reilly | |
| 2009 | The Brothers Bloom | Stephen |
| Margaret | ||
| Shutter Island | Chuck Aule | |
| Where the Wild Things Are | ||
| Sympathy for Delicious | ||
| 2010 | Date Night |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Mark Ruffalo". Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo!). 2007-03-19. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013112/. No. 6, season 13.
- ^ "Ruffalo ascends to the next level in 'Heaven'." USA Today. September 15, 2005.
- ^ a b Radar, Dotson (2004-05-09). "I Wouldn't Give Any Of It Back". Parade. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2004/edition_05-09-2004/featured_0. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Baldassarre, Angela (2007-03-04). "On the trail of a real-life serial killer". Tandem. http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=7084. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Pearlman, Cindy (2007-02-25). "Working on a killer movie". Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/271775,SHO-Sunday-movies25.article. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Dudek, Duane (2000-12-20). "United by loss: Ruffalo nails his role in drama about 2 siblings who share painful past". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www2.jsonline.com/enter/movies/dudek/dec00/count21122000.asp?format=print. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Jones, Oliver. "Mark Ruffalo's Brother Shot in the Head." People. December 3, 2008.
- ^ "Scott Ruffalo still in critical condition." Boston Herald. December 5, 2008.
- ^ "Ruffalo Dies." TMZ. December 9, 2008.
- ^ "Actor Mark Ruffalo's brother, Scott, died after playing Russian Roulette, says murder suspect." New YorkDaily News, December 9, 2008.
- ^ "Autopsy scheduled for Scott Ruffalo," Associated Press, December 11, 2008.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo, Wife Expecting Third Child". People. 2007-03-09. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20014646,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ "Election Center 2008: Mike Gravel". http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/mike.gravel.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ YouTube - MARK RUFFALO questions 9/11
External links
- Mark Ruffalo at the Internet Movie Database
- Clips from Ruffalo interview on Inside the Actors Studio
- Mark Ruffalo Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film
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