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Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005), and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012). Ruffalo earned a record-tying four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm donor in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).
The series opens on the funeral of King Vance, CEO and patriarch. His son Hale sits in the back row, hollow-eyed in a wrinkled black suit, watching as mourners shake his uncle Claude's hand like he's already the boss — because he is. Within three weeks of the funeral, Claude has absorbed the company, and within six, he has married Gert in a quiet ceremony that the press calls tasteful and Hale calls unforgivable. Hale has been given a corner office, a generous allowance, and a polite but firm suggestion that he return to finish his MBA. He doesn't. He drinks. He stares at his father's old watch. His best friend Rex Horatio arrives from out of town and stays on the couch. That night, a security guard named Marcus at the Vance Capital building contacts Rex with something strange — the building's after-hours camera footage from the night King Vance died shows a second person in the parking garage. The footage is corrupted. The timestamp is wrong. But the silhouette is unmistakably Claude.
