Mark Alan Ruffalo (/ˈrʌfəloʊ/; born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1980s and gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and the drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). 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). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / The Hulk since 2012 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero franchise.
Ruffalo earned a record-tying four 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), Michael Rezendes in the drama Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in the comic fantasy Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015) and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).
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Known For
Crime 101
Detective Lou Lubesnick
2026
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Dylan Rhodes
2025
Mickey 17
Kenneth Marshall
2025
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Narrator (voice)
2025
Hal & Harper
Dad · (9 episodes)
2025
Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
Self
2024
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (1 episode)
2023
Poor Things
Duncan Wedderburn
2023
All the Light We Cannot See
Daniel LeBlanc · (4 episodes)
2023
Bonnie
Self
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Self
2022
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Bruce Banner / Hulk · (3 episodes)
2022
The Last Movie Stars
Self · (1 episode)
2022
The Adam Project
Louis Reed
2022
Oyate
Self
2022
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage)
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Bruce Banner / Hulk (uncredited)
2021
What If...?
Bruce Banner / Hulk (voice) · (3 episodes)
2021
What If...?
Bruce Banner (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
What If...?
Bruce Banner / Hulk / Mega-Hulk (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
Groundswell
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Bruce Banner / Hulk (archive footage) (uncredited) · (14 episodes)
2021
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self - Actor, "Avengers: Endgame"
2020
I Know This Much Is True
Dominick Birdsey / Thomas Birdsey · (6 episodes)
2020
Flint
2020
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Self
2019
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
Self
2019
Dark Waters
Robert Bilott
2019
Avengers: Endgame
Bruce Banner / Hulk
2019
Captain Marvel
Bruce Banner / The Hulk (uncredited)
2019
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
Self
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Bruce Banner / Hulk
2018
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Self
2017
Thor: Ragnarok
Bruce Banner / Hulk
2017
Team Thor
Bruce Banner
2016
Now You See Me 2
Dylan Rhodes
2016
Climate Hustle
Self
2016
Dear President Obama
Narrator
2016
The Naked Truth
Self · (1 episode)
2016
Spotlight
Michael Rezendes
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Bruce Banner / Hulk
2015
Hot Ones
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
Foxcatcher
David Schultz
2014
Begin Again
Dan Mulligan
2014
Sock or Hat?
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Normal Heart
Ned Weeks
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Self / Bruce Banner / Hulk
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(1 episode)
2014
Infinitely Polar Bear
Cameron
2014
Thanks for Sharing
Adam
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Now You See Me
Dylan Rhodes
2013
Iron Man 3
Bruce Banner (uncredited)
2013
Kingdom Come
Self
2012
The Avengers
Bruce Banner / The Hulk
2012
Honest Trailers
Bruce Banner / The Hulk (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2012
Honest Trailers
Bruce Banner (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2012
Margaret
Gerald Maretti
2011
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Self
2011
The Kids Are All Right
Paul
2010
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Self
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
Father Joe
2010
Date Night
Brad Sullivan
2010
Shutter Island
Chuck Aule
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
The Boyfriend
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
2009
What Doesn't Kill You
Brian
2008
The Brothers Bloom
Stephen
2008
Blindness
Doctor
2008
Chicago 10
Jerry Rubin (voice)
2008
Reservation Road
Dwight Arno
2007
Zodiac
David Toschi
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (7 episodes)
2007
All the King's Men
Adam Stanton
2006
Rumor Has It...
Jeff Daly
2005
The Colbert Report
(1 episode)
2005
Just Like Heaven
David Abbott
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · (1 episode)
2005
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Self
2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Jack Linden
2004
Collateral
Det. Ray Fanning
2004
13 Going on 30
Matt Flamhaff
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Stan
2004
In the Cut
Giovanni A. Malloy
2003
View from the Top
Ted Stewart
2003
My Life Without Me
Lee
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (2 episodes)
2003
Windtalkers
Pappas
2002
XX/XY
Coles
2002
The Last Castle
Yates
2001
Apartment 12
Alex
2001
You Can Count on Me
Terry Prescott
2000
Committed
T-Bo
2000
The Beat
Zane Marinelli · (13 episodes)
2000
Ride with the Devil
Alf Bowden
1999
A Fish in the Bathtub
Joel
1999
Houdini
Theo
1998
The Last Big Thing
Brent Benedict
1998
54
Ricko
1998
Safe Men
Frank
1998
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
Bert
1997
The View
Self · (1 episode)
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (3 episodes)
1996
The Dentist
Steve Landers
1996
The Destiny of Marty Fine
Brett
1996
Blood Money
Attorney
1996
Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur
Joey
1995
A Gift from Heaven
1994
There Goes My Baby
J.D.
1994
Newsflash
Don Hewitt
Good Sex
Being Heumann
Joseph Califano
Due South
(0 episode)
1994
Due South
Vinnie Webber · (1 episode)
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
Christian
1994
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self / Presenter · (1 episode)
1992
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
1944
Task
Tom · (1 episode)
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
1953
Parasite
(0 episode)