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Mark Rylance
Known for: ActingSir 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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Ready Player One
as Anorak / Halliday 
Dunkerque
as Mr. Dawson 
El meu amic el gegant
as The BFG 
Bones and All
as Sully 
Don't Look Up
as Peter Isherwell 
Wolf Hall
as Thomas Cromwell 
El pont dels espies
as Rudolf Abel 
Bing
as Narrator / Flop (voice) 
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as William Kunstler 
Caça a l’assassí
as Terrance Cox 
Intimacy
as Jay 
Les germanes Bolena
as Sir Thomas Boleyn 
El sastre de la màfia
as Leonard Burling 
Blitz
as Roberts 
Waiting for the Barbarians
as The Magistrate 
El gran Maurice
as Maurice Flitcroft 
Anonymous
as Condell 
Muse of Fire
as Self 
Els llibres de Prospero
as Ferdinand 
Àngels i insectes
as William Adamson 
We Are Many
as Self 
Days and Nights
as Stephen 
Institute Benjamenta
as Jakob 
Hearts of Fire
as Fizz 
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
as Self