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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).

Mark Ruffalo

The Hulk/Bruce Banner
for The Hulk/Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk
Suggested by acexavier

Bruce Banner is known scientist, specializing in gamma radiation. One day, he is visited by General “Thunderbolt” Ross, who also happens to be his girlfriend’s father, who asks Bruce to help out with a project for the military, one that has to due with gamma. When they are about to get ready for the test, Bruce notices someone out on the testing field, a young student named Rick Jones. Unable to stop the test, Bruce runs out to save Jones, but gets caught in the gamma blast. Instead of killing Bruce, the gamma rays changed him. Now, whenever Bruce gets angry, he changes into an unstoppable monster known only as the Hulk. On the run from the military, Bruce seeks out a cure. Desperate to catch Bruce and use his dna for unknown purposes, Ross turns to Emil Blonskey to see if he can hunt him down.