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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.
As actor
On the Edge
The Nightingale
Searching for Shakespeare
Spirit of Place
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Inland
The Phantom of the Open
The Outfit
Bones and All
Don't Look Up
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
Waiting for the Barbarians
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Flaneur
Ready Player One
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Dunkirk
The BFG
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
The Colorado
Bridge of Spies
The Gunman
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
Days and Nights
We Are Many
Muse of Fire
Twelfth Night
Blitz
Anonymous
Inside The Institute