Acting credits
56
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Mark Rylance
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.7
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Movies: 48Series: 8Crew 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: 1971 - 2026
Years active: 56
Average TMDB rating: 6.65
Wikidata: Q324572
Also known as
David Mark Rylance Waters • 마크 라이런스 • 马克·里朗斯 • 大卫·马克·里朗斯·沃特斯
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Mark Rylance.
Dec 3
On the Edge
as (voice)
2026 Movie
10.0
Searching for Shakespeare
2025 Movie
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
2024 Movie
Spirit of Place
2024 Movie
5.3
Inland
as Dunleavy
2023 Movie
7.0
Bones and All
as Sully
2022 Movie
6.8
The Phantom of the Open
as Maurice Flitcroft
2022 Movie
7.1
The Outfit
as Leonard Burling
2022 Movie
7.1
Don't Look Up
as Peter Isherwell
2021 Movie
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
as Flop
2020 Movie
7.7
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as William Kunstler
2020 Movie
5.9
Waiting for the Barbarians
as The Magistrate
2019 Movie
3.5
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
as Self
2018 Movie
7.6
Ready Player One
as Anorak / Halliday
2018 Movie
7.4
Dunkirk
as Mr. Dawson
2017 Movie
6.3
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
7.2
Bridge of Spies
as Rudolf Abel
2015 Movie
5.8
The Gunman
as Terrance Cox
2015 Movie
4.5
Days and Nights
as Stephen
2014 Movie
6.7
We Are Many
as Self
2014 Movie
6.5
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013 Movie
7.5
Twelfth Night
as Olivia
2012 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Mark Rylance.
2.8
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.4
The Undeclared War
as John Yeabsley • 4 eps
2022 Series
7.3
My Grandparents' War
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.5
Wolf Hall
as Thomas Cromwell • 12 eps
2015 Series
7.0
Bing
as Narrator / Flop (voice) • 157 eps
2014 Series
9.2
Leonardo
as Leonardo • 3 eps
2003 Series
6.0
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
as Nikki Fodor • 2 eps
1985 Series
5.8
Great Performances
as King Henry V • 1 eps
1971 Series