Mark Ruffalo on screen and stage

Mark Ruffalo is an American actor who has starred in numerous films and television series. Ruffalo made his acting debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse. He began collaborating with Kenneth Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, In 1996 he was included in the original cast of Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) which gained him recognition subsequently he had minor roles in films including The Dentist (1996), Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War Western Ride with the Devil (1999). In 2000, he starred as Laura Linney's character's brother in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated film You Can Count on Me.

Ruffalo at the Toronto premiere of The Avengers in 2012

In the mid-2000s, he was featured in the films View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005). In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Awake and Sing! for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2007, he appeared in David Fincher's mystery thriller Zodiac which was based on a true story. He played the role of SFPD inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer.

In 2012, he replaced Edward Norton in the role of Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk in the Marvel Studios film The Avengers (2012). He later reprised the role in Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), as well as the Disney+ series What If...? (2021-2024) and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022). He also starred in the Now You See Me film series and in the 2014 biographical drama film Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz which earned him best Supporting Actor nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. The next year in 2015, he appeared as journalist Michael Rezendes in the drama film Spotlight, for which he earned his third Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1992	Rough Trade	Hank	Short film
1994	Mirror, Mirror II: Raven Dance	Christian
	There Goes My Baby	J.D.
1995	Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur	Joey
1996	The Destiny of Marty Fine	Brett	Also screenwriter	[1]
	The Dentist	Steve Landers
	Blood Money	Attorney
	The Last Big Thing	Brent Benedict
1998	Safe Men	Frank
	54	Ricko
1999	How Does Anyone Get Old?	Johnnie	Short film
	A Fish in the Bathtub	Joel
	Ride with the Devil	Alf Bowden
2000	You Can Count on Me	Terry Prescott
	Committed	T-Bo
2001	The Last Castle	Yates
	Apartment 12	Alex
2002	XX/XY	Coles
	Windtalkers	Private Pappas
2003	My Life Without Me	Lee
	View from the Top	Ted Stewart
	In the Cut	Detective Giovanni A. Malloy
2004	We Don't Live Here Anymore	Jack Linden	Also executive producer	[2]
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Stan		[3]
	13 Going on 30	Matt Flamhaff		[4]
	Collateral	Ray Fanning		[5]
2005	Just like Heaven	David Abbott		[6]
	Rumor Has It...	Jeff Daly		[7]
2006	All the King's Men	Adam Stanton		[8]
2007	Chicago 10	Jerry Rubin (voice)		[9]
	Zodiac	Inspector Dave Toschi		[10]
	Reservation Road	Dwight Arno		[11]
2008	Blindness	Doctor		[12]
	What Doesn't Kill You	Brian Reilly		[13]
2009	The Brothers Bloom	Stephen		[14]
	Where the Wild Things Are	Adrian		[15]
	Sympathy for Delicious	Joe	Also director and producer	[16]
2010	The Kids Are All Right	Paul Hatfield		[17]
	Shutter Island	Chuck Aule / Dr. Lester Sheehan		[18]
	Date Night	Brad Sullivan		[19]
2011	Margaret	Gerald Maretti		[20]
2012	The Avengers	Bruce Banner / Hulk		[21]
2013	Iron Man 3		Cameo appearance; post-credits scene	[22]
	Thanks for Sharing	Adam		[23]
	Now You See Me	Agent Dylan Rhodes		[24]
	Begin Again	Dan Mulligan		[25]
2014	Infinitely Polar Bear	Cam Stuart	Also executive producer	[26]
	Foxcatcher	Dave Schultz		[27]
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Bruce Banner / Hulk		[28]
	Spotlight	Michael Rezendes		[29]
2016	Now You See Me 2	Agent Dylan Rhodes		[30]
	Team Thor	Bruce Banner	Short film	[31]
2017	Anything	—	Executive producer	[32]
	Thor: Ragnarok	Bruce Banner / Hulk		[33]
2018	Avengers: Infinity War			[34]
2019	Captain Marvel		Cameo appearance; mid-credits scene
	Avengers: Endgame			[35]
	Dark Waters	Robert Bilott[36]	Also producer	[37]
2021	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Bruce Banner / Hulk	Cameo appearance; post-credits scene
2022	The Adam Project	Louis Reed		[38]
2023	Poor Things	Duncan Wedderburn		[39]
2025	Mickey 17	Kenneth Marshall		[40]
	Now You See Me: Now You Don't †	Agent Dylan Rhodes	Post-production	[41]
2026	Crime 101 †	Detective Lou Lubesnick	Post-production	[42]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	CBS Summer Playhouse	Michael Dunne	Episode: "American Nuclear"
1994	Due South	Vinnie Webber	Episode: "A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby"
1997	On the 2nd Day of Christmas	Bert	Television film
1998	Houdini	Theo
2000	The Beat	Zane Marinelli	8 episodes
2011	Sesame Street	Himself	Episode: "Big Bad Wolf Huffs and Puffs Slimey"
2014	The Normal Heart	Alexander "Ned" Weeks	Television film; also executive producer
2020	I Know This Much Is True	Dominick Birdsey / Thomas Birdsey[43]	6 episodes; also executive producer
2021–2024	What If...?	Bruce Banner / Hulk (voice)	5 episodes
2022	Little Demon	Bark Woofalo (voice)	Episode: "The Antichrist's Monster"
	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law	Bruce Banner / Hulk	3 episodes
	Marvel Studios: Assembled	Himself	Episode: "The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law"
2023	All the Light We Cannot See	Daniel LeBlanc	4 episodes
2025	Task †	Tom	Also executive producer[44]
TBA	Hal & Harper †	TBA	[45]

Key

†	Denotes series that have not yet been released

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	This Is Our Youth	Warren Straub	INTAR Theatre; Off-Broadway[46]
1998–1999			McGinn-Cazale Theatre; Off-Broadway
1999	The Moment When	Steven	Playwrights Horizons; Off-Broadway
2006	Awake and Sing!	Moe Axelrod	Belasco Theatre; Broadway
2017	The Price	Victor Franz	American Airlines Theater; Broadway