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Sir David Mark Rylance Waters ( / raɪləns /; born 18 January 1960) is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He is known for his roles on stage and screen having received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards.
On television, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as David Kelly in the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Government Inspector and was nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA TV Award for playing Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two miniseries Wolf Hall.
Mark Rylance is an English actor known for his work in film, television and theatre. Rylance started his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company acting in numerous productions of William Shakespeare 's work such as The Tempest (1982), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1986), Hamlet (1989), and Romeo and Juliet (1989).
He played Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall (2015), BBC Two's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Jun 24, 2024 · Mark Rylance (born January 18, 1960, Ashford, Kent, England) is a British theatre actor and director recognized not only for his period-specific enactments of both male and female roles in the works of William Shakespeare but also for his poignant portrayals of contemporary characters.
Jun 3, 2022 · One Tuesday afternoon last month, Mark Rylance was sitting in his London home, his face and body bearing the accouterments of Johnny (Rooster) Byron, the rowdy onetime daredevil he has been...
Mark Rylance was a British stage and screen actor who won an Oscar in 2016 for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" (2015).
Nov 26, 2015 · Mark Rylance, arguably the greatest stage actor of his generation, already has three Tonys, two Olivier awards and a TV Bafta to his name. But he remains modest about the Oscar buzz...
Jun 1, 2022 · NEW YORK (AP) — With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors and a leading interpreter of Shakespeare — made six films. They span a wide gamut. A tech billionaire in Adam McKay’s apocalypse satire “Don’t Look Up.”
Apr 28, 2021 · Mark Rylance has just been cast in the super-intriguing cyber thriller series The Undeclared War – his first TV role in six years. To celebrate, we're making him our British Icon of the Week and rounding up 10 things we love about this great actor.
