| Mark Ruffalo  Born: 22-Nov-1967
Birthplace: Kenosha, WI
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 13 Going on 30 Mark Ruffalo was a skate punk in his teen years, then came to Los Angeles to study drama at the Stella Adler Academy. It took him six years to complete a three-year course of study there. Through the 1990s, Ruffalo went to more than 800 auditions, landing almost nothing but the occasional TV commercial and roles in plays at tiny Los Angeles area venues. Ruffalo's first prominent film role was the lead in You Can Count on Me (2000), and he had a large role in John Woo's Windtalkers (2002). That same year he had a benign tumor cut out of his brain, though at the time, Ruffalo's agent announced that only "a minor cyst" was removed from his ear. The surgery and ten months of recovery cost Ruffalo a role in Signs. In Ruffalo's first post-op role, he played Meg Ryan's sex interest in Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003).
Father: (contractor)
Mother: (hairdresser)
Sister: Tania Ruffalo (hairdresser)
Brother: Scott Ruffalo (hairdresser, d. 8-Dec-2008)
Sister: Nicole Ruffalo (hairdresser)
Wife: Sunrise Coigney (actress, b. 17-Sep-1972, m. Jun-2000, one son, one daughter)
Son: Keen Ruffalo (b. 2001)
Daughter: Bella (b. May-2005)
High School: First Colonial High School, Virginia Beach, VA
Kucinich for President
Obama for America
Progressive Patriots Fund
Italian Ancestry
French-Canadian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Brain Cancer
TELEVISION
The Beat Zane Marinelli (2000)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
What Doesn't Kill You (10-Sep-2008)
Blindness (14-May-2008)
Reservation Road (13-Sep-2007)
Zodiac (2-Mar-2007)
Chicago 10 (18-Jan-2007) Himself [VOICE]
All the King's Men (10-Sep-2006)
Rumor Has It... (22-Dec-2005)
Just Like Heaven (16-Sep-2005)
Collateral (06-Aug-2004)
13 Going on 30 (14-Apr-2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (19-Mar-2004)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (20-Jan-2004)
In the Cut (9-Sep-2003)
View from the Top (21-Mar-2003)
My Life Without Me (10-Feb-2003)
Windtalkers (14-Jun-2002)
XX/XY (11-Jan-2002)
The Last Castle (19-Oct-2001)
Committed (21-Jan-2000)
You Can Count On Me (21-Jan-2000)
Ride with the Devil (9-Sep-1999)
Houdini (7-Oct-1998)
54 (28-Aug-1998)
Safe Men (07-Aug-1998)
On the 2nd Day of Christmas (8-Dec-1997)
The Dentist (13-Sep-1996)
There Goes My Baby (2-Sep-1994)
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