Personal Info
Birth date
1960-01-18 (65 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ashford, Kent, England, UK
Also known as
David Mark Rylance Waters
마크 라이런스
马克·里朗斯
大卫·马克·里朗斯·沃特斯
Mark Rylance
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.
Filmography
Great Performances
5.3
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2.7
Overview:
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.Tony Awards
5.1
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Wolf Hall
7.512
Overview:
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?Bing
7.3
Overview:
Bing is a young and lovable bunny learning about the big world around him, with the help of his friends. A warm and gentle animation, based on the bestselling books by Ted Dewan.The Undeclared War
6.508
Overview:
In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.Intimacy
6.2
Overview:
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
6
Overview:
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a 1985 NBC mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain as Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat instrumental in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. It won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for five more.Ready Player One
7.6
Overview:
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.Don't Look Up
7.069
Overview:
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.Dunkirk
7.451
Overview:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.The BFG
6.282
Overview:
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.Blitz
6.18
Overview:
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.Bridge of Spies
7.234
Overview:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.Bones and All
7.045
Overview:
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.The Outfit
7.087
Overview:
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.The Other Boleyn Girl
6.7
Overview:
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.The Trial of the Chicago 7
7.683
Overview:
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.Waiting for the Barbarians
5.9
Overview:
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.Anonymous
6.4
Overview:
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.The Gunman
5.7
Overview:
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.My Grandparents' War
7.3
Overview:
In this four-part documentary series, leading Hollywood actors undertake a fascinating journey into their family's past by re-tracing the footsteps of their grandparents during World War Two. We follow the moving, personal stories of Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Carey Mulligan as they travel to historic locations, from the beaches of Dunkirk to prisoner of war camps in Asia, to learn about the war their grandparents experienced. All of the actors have unanswered questions about the scars war left on their grandparents, and in each episode one of the actors explore how six years changed the lives of their family and the world forever while learning about the life and death decisions that their grandparents faced.The Phantom of the Open
6.7
Overview:
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.Angels and Insects
6.3
Overview:
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.Days and Nights
4.5
Overview:
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.Muse of Fire
6.5
Overview:
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
7.8
Overview:
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?Acting
TBAThe Way of the Wind as Satan
2025Searching for Shakespeare as Unknown
2024Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration as Flop (voice)
2024Spirit of Place as Unknown
2023Inland as Dunleavy
2022Bones and All as Sully
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (1 Episode) as Unknown
2022The Undeclared War (4 Episodes) as John Yeabsley
2022The Phantom of the Open as Maurice Flitcroft
2022The Outfit as Leonard Burling
2021Don't Look Up as Peter Isherwell
2020Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories as Flop
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 as William Kunstler
2019My Grandparents' War (1 Episode) as Self
2019Waiting for the Barbarians as The Magistrate
2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth as Self
2018Ready Player One as Anorak / Halliday
2017Dunkirk as Mr. Dawson
2016The BFG as The BFG
2015Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
2015Wolf Hall: The Inside Story as Self
2015The Gunman as Terrance Cox
2015Wolf Hall (12 Episodes) as Thomas Cromwell
2014Days and Nights as Stephen
2014Bing (157 Episodes) as Narrator / Flop (voice)
2014We Are Many as Self
2013Muse of Fire as Self
2012Twelfth Night as Olivia
2011Anonymous as Condell
2011Blitz as Roberts
2010Inside The Institute as Self
2008The Other Boleyn Girl as Sir Thomas Boleyn
2007Hamlet {Solo} as Self
2005Shakespeare's Globe as Himself
2005The Government Inspector as Dr. David Kelly
2004Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe as Vincentio, Duke of Vienna
2003Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Richard II
2003Leonardo (3 Episodes) as Leonardo
2001Much Ado About Something as Himself
2001Intimacy as Jay
1997Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe as Henry V
1996Loving as Charlie Raunce
1995Angels and Insects as William Adamson
1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life as Jakob
1993In Lambeth as William Blake
1993Love Lies Bleeding as Conn Ellis
1992The Grass Arena as John Healy
1991Prospero's Books as Ferdinand
1987Hearts of Fire as Fizz
1986The McGuffin as Gavin
1985Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (2 Episodes) as Nikki Fodor
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as King Henry V
1956Tony Awards (2 Episodes) as Self - Winner
Production
2022The Phantom of the Open ... Executive Producer