“I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.”

American actor and producer, born 1967

Mark Ruffalo is an American actor and producer, active since the late 1980s. Born in 1967, he first came to wider notice through Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and the film You Can Count on Me. He later moved between romantic comedies and thrillers, including 13 Going on 30, Just Like Heaven, In the Cut, Zodiac, and Shutter Island. In 2006, he earned a Tony Award nomination for Awake and Sing! He is also widely known for playing Bruce Banner, also called Hulk, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with The Avengers in 2012.