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Mark Rylance
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English actor, playwright and theatre director
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Mark Rylance is a British playwright, stage actor, film actor, and theatrical director. Born on January 18, 1960, in Ashford, Kent, England, he began his professional work period in 1980. He received his education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Rylance is married to Claire van Kampen and is the relative of Juliet Rylance. He speaks English and works in the fields of acting and drama.
His career has been recognized with several major honors, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Laurence Olivier Awards, the Theatre World Award, and the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He has also received nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor, and the European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film.
As an author, Rylance has published works such as *I Am Shakespeare*, *London Theatres*, *30-Second Shakespeare*, and *Know It All Shakespeare*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1960
- Works
- 11
Top works
- I Am Shakespeare
- London Theatres
- 30-Second Shakespeare
- The big secret live 'I am Shakespeare' webcam daytime chatroom show!
- Know It All Shakespeare
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Ashford, Kent, England, UK
Sir 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…
Known for
- On the Edge — (voice)2027
- The Nightingale2027
- Searching for Shakespeare2025
- Spirit of Place2024
- Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration — Flop (voice)2024
- Inland — Dunleavy2023
- The Phantom of the Open — Maurice Flitcroft2022
- The Outfit — Leonard Burling2022
- Bones and All — Sully2022
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 142
Mark Rylance (born 18 January 1960) is an English actor, theatre director and playwright. As an actor, Rylance found success on stage and screen. For his work in theatre he has won Olivier and Tony Awards among others, and a BAFTA TV Award. His film roles include Ferdinand in Prospero's Books (based on Shakespeare's The Tempest), Jay in Intimacy (after a novel by Hanif Kureishi) and Jakob von Gunten in Institute Benjamenta (after a novel by Robert Walser). He was the first Artistic Director of
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,051x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,205x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,686x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,405x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- David Mark Rylance Waters , ( 1960-01-18 ) 18 January 1960 (age 66) , Ashford, Kent , England
- Education
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Occupations
- Actor playwright theatre director
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Works
- Full list
- Spouse
- Claire van Kampen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; died 2025 )
- Relatives
- Susannah Waters (sister), Juliet Rylance (stepdaughter)
- Awards
- Full list
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960) is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards. In 2016 he was included in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2017 he was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II.
Between 1995 and 2005 Rylance was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London. He appeared in the West End productions of Much Ado About Nothing in 1994 and Jerusalem in 2010, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actor for both. He has also appeared on Broadway, winning three Tony Awards: two for Best Actor for Boeing Boeing in 2008 and Jerusalem in 2011, and one for Best Featured Actor for Twelfth Night in 2014. He was Tony-nominated for his roles in Richard III in 2014 and Farinelli and the King in 2017.
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