Overview
Mark Rylance
Known For
The Phantom of the Open
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain...
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
It's Christmas! Come & celebrate the festive season with Bing......
Waiting for the Barbarians
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a...
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary...
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.