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Mark Rylance
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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 Shakes…
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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.
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2027
On the Edge
Movie (voice)
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2027
The Nightingale
Movie
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2026
Artificial
Movie Geoffrey Hinton
- 2025
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2024
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Movie Flop (voice)
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2024
Spirit of Place
Movie
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2023
Inland
Movie Dunleavy
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2022
Bones and All
Movie Sully
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self
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2022
The Undeclared War
TV show John Yeabsley
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2022
The Phantom of the Open
Movie Maurice Flitcroft
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2022
The Outfit
Movie Leonard Burling
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2021
Don't Look Up
Movie Peter Isherwell
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2020
Bing’s Christmas and Other Stories
Movie Flop
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2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Movie William Kunstler
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2019
My Grandparents' War
TV show Self
More credits
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2019
Waiting for the Barbarians
Movie The Magistrate
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2019
The Flaneur
Movie Narrator
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2018
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Movie Self
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2018
Ready Player One
Movie Anorak / Halliday
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2017
Dunkirk
Movie Mr. Dawson
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2016
The BFG
Movie The BFG
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2016
The Colorado
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2016
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Movie Self
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2015
Bridge of Spies
Movie Rudolf Abel
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2015
Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
Movie Self
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2015
The Gunman
Movie Terrance Cox
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2015
Wolf Hall
TV show Thomas Cromwell
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2014
Days and Nights
Movie Stephen
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2014
Bing
TV show Narrator / Flop (voice)
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2014
We Are Many
Movie Self
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2013
Muse of Fire
Movie Self
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2012
Twelfth Night
Movie Olivia
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2011
Anonymous
Movie Condell
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2011
Blitz
Movie Roberts
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2010
Inside The Institute
Movie Self
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2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie Sir Thomas Boleyn
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2007
Hamlet {Solo}
Movie Self
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2005
Shakespeare's Globe
Movie Himself
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2005
The Government Inspector
Movie Dr. David Kelly
