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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).
Boca Raton, 1954. She came from Naples with a voice and a suitcase. Miami didn't know what to do with either. A period romance set in 1954 Florida, La Luce follows Lucia Ferrero, 22, the daughter of a Neapolitan immigrant family who arrived in Boca Raton when Lucia was eight. She is a nightclub singer of extraordinary talent playing the small clubs of the Florida Italian-American community — too good for the rooms she plays, unable to access the rooms she deserves because those rooms are not for people who look like her world. When Miami's most important club owner hears her sing at a private party, the opportunity arrives — but it comes with conditions she didn't plan for, including a management situation that requires her to perform as 'Lucy Ferris' (Anglicized, sanitized) and an entanglement with Marco, a musician from Chicago who plays the club's orchestra and who loves her for the voice she performs and the person behind it simultaneously. The film is a celebration of mid-century Italian-American culture, a love letter to Florida's musical history, and an examination of what it costs to make yourself legible to an industry that prefers a version of you to you. Act One — The Community Hall Lucia singing for the Italian community, for free, for the love of it. The private party. Sid Marsh in the back of the room. Act Two — Lucy Ferris The Miami club. The Anglicized name. Marco watching her perform and watching her perform performing simultaneously. Act Three — Lucia The name on the marquee that matters. The film ends in Italian.
