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Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo (/ˈrʌfəloʊ/; born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and producer who began his career in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and 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/Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with The Avengers (2012). Ruffalo earned a record-tying four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm donor in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Ruffalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron2015as Bruce Banner / HulkOur takeUltron is frightening because his solution removes the very people it supposedly serves. Our reading is that the Avengers defeat him by accepting an obligation he cannot understand: someone must remain answerable to particular lives, even when saving those lives makes victory slower and messier. Vision provides the…
Avengers: Infinity War2018as Bruce Banner / HulkOur takethe sunrise is unsettling because the familiar visual language of completion belongs to the person who has inflicted the catastrophe. Calm is not proof that the universe has become just. It tells us that Thanos can regard his project as finished without confronting the people who must live inside its consequences.
The Avengers2012as Bruce Banner / The HulkOur takeThis ensemble succeeds because its heroes remain noticeably different. The movie does not ask every performer to speak, move, or project authority in the same way. Collaboration becomes interesting precisely because agreement cannot be taken for granted.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026as Bruce Banner / HulkOur takeThe film's most meaningful reset is Peter's willingness to risk being known. Its ending asks whether responsibility can include accepting care, rather than continually proving that you can survive without it.
Avengers: Endgame2019as Bruce Banner / HulkOur takeThe five-year gap prevents the original film from becoming a frictionless undo button. The characters have accumulated relationships, habits and injuries. Wanting their loved ones back is easy to understand; deciding what must survive alongside that return is harder. This is why Tony's concern about his family…Profile and filmography data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.