Mark Rylance
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born January 18, 1960 in Ashford , Kent , England ) is a British - American actor and theater director . In 2016, he received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in the film Bridge of Spies .
Life
Mark Rylance was born in England in 1960. In 1962 his parents, both English teachers, moved with him to the United States.
In the fall of 1976 he played Hamlet in a school play. In the summer of 1977 he played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the University of Milwaukee's First Shakespeare Festival . In the same year he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where he received his training under Hugh Cruttwell between 1978 and 1980. He then received further training from Barbara Bridgmont at the Chrysalis Theater School in Balham (London). In 1980 he had his first engagement at the Glasgow Citizens' Theater . In 1982/83 he played at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon . He then worked with the London Theater of Imagination , the Royal Opera House , the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and Mike Alfred's Shared Experience at the Royal National Theater . In 1987 he met the musician and composer Claire van Kampen , whom he married in 1989.
In 1990 Rylance founded the theater company Phoebus' Cart with his wife . He was then invited by Sam Wanamaker , founder of London's new Globe Theater , to become a member of the Board of Directors. From 1995 he was first artistic director there for ten years. Under his direction, a piece for the Globe was written and performed for the first time in four hundred years, in 2000 Augustine's Oak by Peter Oswald.
Mark Rylance is a member of the Francis Bacon Research Trust , the Club of Budapest , the UN Peace One Day Campaign , and Peace Direct . He is also an ambassador for the international human rights organization Survival International .
In 2017 he was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor .
Awards
Rylance has been nominated for the Olivier Award eight times for best actor and has won it twice.
- In 2005 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in The Government Inspector .
- In 2010, Rylance was voted third in a poll by British industry magazine The Stage behind Judi Dench and Maggie Smith as “the best British theater actor of all time”.
- 2016: For his role as spy Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator , he received the Oscar in the category Best Supporting Actor in 2016 . He was nominated in the same category at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards . He also received other awards for this role and received multiple nominations.
- On June 29, 2016, it was announced that Rylance was one of 683 personalities to be invited as a new member by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
Theater roles
- Roles in the theater (outside the Globe Theater, London, selection):
- 2013/14 Belasco Theater (New York); Richard III : Richard III, and at the same time Twelfth Night ( What you want ): Olivia (won the Tony Award for best actor for the role in Twelfth Night)
- 2011 Music Box Theater (New York); Jerusalem , Royal Court staging: Rooster (won the Tony Award for Best Actor)
- 2009 Royal Court Theater and Apollo Theater (West End); Jerusalem : Rooster
- 2008 Broadway Longacre Theater (New York); Boeing Boeing : Robert (won the Tony Award for Best Actor)
- 2000 Royal National Theater Live x 3 : Henry
- 1994 Donmar Warehouse True West : Lee / Austin.
- 1994 Theater For a New Audience (New York) As You Like It ( As You Like It ): Touchstone
- 1993 Queen's Theater Much Ado About Nothing ( Much Ado About Nothing ): Benedick
- 1989 RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company), Stratford-upon-Avon , Hamlet : Hamlet
- Roles in Shakespeare's Globe Theater (selection):
- 2018 Othello : Iago
- 2005 The Tempest ( The storm ): Prospero / Stephano / Alonso
- 2004 Measure for Measure ( Measure for Measure ): Duke / Monk
- 2003 Richard II : Richard II.
- 2002 Twelfth Night ( What you want ): Olivia
- 2001 Cymbeline : Cymbeline : title role
- 2000 Hamlet : Hamlet
- 1999 Antony and Cleopatra ( Antonius and Cleopatra ): Cleopatra
- 1998 Merchant of Venice ( The Merchant of Venice ): Bassanio
- 1997 Henry V ( Heinrich V ): Henry V
- 1996 Two Gentlemen of Verona ( The Two Gentlemen of Verona ): Proteus
Filmography
In addition to his theater career, Rylance has appeared in a number of TV and cinema productions. A selection of his engagements is shown below:
cinemamovies
- 1985: The McGuffin
- 1987: Hearts of Fire
- 1991: The Grass Arena
- 1995: Angels and Insects (Angels & Insects)
- 2001: Intimacy
- 2008: The Other Boleyn Girl (The Other Boleyn Girl)
- 2011: Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer Cop (Blitz)
- 2011: Anonymus (Anonymous)
- 2015: The Gunman
- 2015: Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator (Bridge of Spies)
- 2016: BFG - Big Friendly Giant (The BFG)
- 2017: Dunkirk
- 2018: Ready Player One
- 2019: Waiting for the Barbarians
Television productions
- 1995: LovinLove Lies Bleeding
- 1997: Henry V.
- 2000: William Shakespeare
- 2001: Changing Stages
- 2003: Leonardo
- 2003: Richard II
- 2005: The Government Inspector
- 2015: Wolves (Wolf Hall)
Works
- Mark Rylance: Play - A Recollection in Pictures and Words of the First Five Years of Play at Shakespeares's Globe Theater . Photo: Sheila Burnett, Donald Cooper, Richard Kolina, John Tramper. Shakespeare's Globe Publ., London, UK. 2003. ISBN 0-9536480-4-4 .
Awards
- 2005 British Academy Television Award for Government Inspector for Best Actor
- 2016 Oscar for Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator for Best Supporting Actor
- 2016 nomination for Best Actor in Farinelli and the King for the Laurence Olivier Award
- 2016 British Academy Film Award for Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator for Best Supporting Actor
- 2016 nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator for Best Supporting Actor
- 2017 Knight Bachelor
Web links
- Mark Rylance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mark Rylance ( August 14, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive )
- MarkAround ( Memento from February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- The Peacebuilder
- Shakespeare's Globe online
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2
- ↑ cf. Spencer, Charles: The greatest players of all time? . In: The Daily Telegraph, December 17, 2010, p. 25
- ↑ Emma Thrower: Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, John Boyega and more join the Academy In: empireonline.com, June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Olivier awards 2016: complete list of nominations In: theguardian.com, February 29, 2016.
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SURNAME | Rylance, Mark |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waters, David Mark Rylance (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ashford , Kent, England, United Kingdom |