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Name	:	Mark Ruffalo
Real Name	:	Mark Alan Ruffalo
Height	:	5' 9" (175 cm)
Date of Birth	:	22 November 1967
Place of Birth	:	Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Biography:

Mark Ruffalo wanted to be an actor as a child. At age of 18, he headed to Los Angeles to study the craft at the prestigious Stella Adler Conservatory. After taking classes for several years, Ruffalo began to venture into L.A. theaters and independent film.

After 12 years as a struggling actor, Mark Ruffalo became the Next Big Thing with his exceptional performance in the Oscar-nominated independent film You Can Count on Me (2000). It garnered Ruffalo the Montreal Film Festival's Best Actor prize and talk of an Oscar nod. Though he didn't get the nomination, Ruffalo quickly moved up the Hollywood ranks, starring as an imprisoned military pilot alongside with Robert Redford in The Last Castle (2001), and as a soldier in World War II saga Windtalkers (2001).

Ruffalo was diagnosed with a brain tumor while filming The Last Castle in 2000. Forced to drop out of the Joaquin Phoenix role in Signs (2002), Ruffalo had surgery and spent months rehabilitating. Having made a full recovery, Ruffalo returned to work.

2004 started off with a bang for Ruffalo when We Don't Live Here Anymore, a film he both starred in and produced, received the top dramatic prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The film traced the crumbling of four characters' friendships and marriages when two of them engage in an affair. In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he played a goofy scientist who attempts to erase Jim Carrey's memories of Kate Winslet. He then starred opposite Jennifer Garner in the romantic-comedy 13 Going on 30.

Ruffalo's next project met with positive reviews as well as a box-office winner. In Collateral (2004), Ruffalo played the lawman trying to track down a menacing hitman played by Tom Cruise as the hired gun terrorizes cabdriver Jamie Foxx.

Filmography:

2006	Margaret
2006	Zodiac
2006	All the King's Men
2006	Have You Heard?
2005	Rumor Has It...
2005	Just Like Heaven
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004	Collateral
2004	13 Going on 30
2003	In the Cut
2003	We Don't Live Here Anymore
2003	My Life Without Me
2002	XX/XY
2002	View from the Top
2002	Windtalkers
2001	The Last Castle
2000	The Beat [TV Series]
2000	Committed
2000	You Can Count On Me
1999	Apartment 12
1999	A Fish in the Bathtub
1999	Ride With the Devil
1998	Safe Men
1996	The Last Big Thing
1996	The Dentist
1994	Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance
1994	Due South: A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby
1994	A Gift from Heaven