Mark Ruffalo movies

He graduated from First Colonial High School and then moved with his family to San Diego, California and later to Los Angeles, California where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company. With the OTC, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, but overall his luck with acting was not great, and he spent the next 9 years earning his living as a bartender.
Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lees acclaimed Civil War Western Ride With the Devil (1999).

Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, Ruffalo began collaborating with Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1998), which led to Ruffalos role as Laura Linneys troubled, aimless drifter brother Terry in Longerans acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me. He received strongly favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.This led to other significant opportunities, including the films XX/XY (2002), My Life Without Me (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Dont Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based upon two short stories written by Andre Dubus. He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as another homicide detective in Michael Manns acclaimed crime-thriller Collateral (2004). More recently, Ruffalo has appeared as a romantic lead in "chick flicks" such as View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005). In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odetss Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theater in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In March, 2007, Ruffalo starred in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer from 1969 through most of the 1970s.Personal lifeIn 2002, Ruffalo was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had surgery, which resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis, even though the tumor was found to be benign.

Mark Ruffalo Movies

All movies starring Mark Ruffalo.

• 13 Going on 30
• All the King's Men
• Collateral
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• In the Cut
• Just Like Heaven
• Margaret
• My Life Without Me
• Reservation Road
• Rumor Has It...
• The Brothers Bloom
• Zodiac
• The Last Castle