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In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theatre in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In the mid-2000s, Ruffalo appeared as a romantic lead in View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005). He appeared opposite Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's crime thriller Collateral (2004).

This led to other significant roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me, John Woo's Windtalkers (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003), Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based on two short stories written by Andre Dubus. His next role was in 2001 in Rod Lurie's The Last Castle playing a bookie in a military prison alongside Robert Redford. 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. Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, Ruffalo began collaborating with him and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This is Our Youth (1996), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's character's brother in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me. Ruffalo had minor roles in films including The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War Western Ride with the Devil (1999).

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Ruffalo played 'Vinnie Webber', a minor character in Series 1 Episode 9 of Due South, first broadcast in Canada in 1994. He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989), followed by minor film roles, and was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1996). He also spent close to a decade working as a bartender. With the theater company, he wrote, directed and starred in a number of plays. He moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach, where he acted for the Patriot Playhouse. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Ruffalo has described himself as having been a 'happy kid', although he struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD as a child and a young adult. Ruffalo attended both Catholic and progressive schools throughout his education. His father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco and his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry. He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott (died 2008). His mother, Marie Rose ( née Hébert), is a hairdresser and stylist and his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo Jr., worked as a construction painter.

Mark Alan Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. During his career, Ruffalo has been nominated for at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award, one of a select group to have been nominated for all four awards.

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He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie for playing a gay writer and activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his dual role in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020). Ruffalo gained nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm-donor in the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in the biopic Foxcatcher (2014), and Michael Rezendes in the drama Spotlight (2015). Also in 2019, Ruffalo starred in and co-produced Dark Waters. Ruffalo gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise starting with the film The Avengers (2012), most recently appearing in the television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005) and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007) and Shutter Island (2010) and received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. He began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1998) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). Mark Alan Ruffalo ( / ˈ r ʌ f ə l oʊ/ born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and environmental activist.