Mark Rylance

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Mark Rylance at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival

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.

Theater roles

Filmography

Rylance in 2015

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

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

Web links

Commons : Mark Rylance  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2
  2. ↑ cf. Spencer, Charles: The greatest players of all time? . In: The Daily Telegraph, December 17, 2010, p. 25
  3. ↑ Emma Thrower: Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, John Boyega and more join the Academy In: empireonline.com, June 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Olivier awards 2016: complete list of nominations In: theguardian.com, February 29, 2016.
personal data
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