Mark Ruffalo as 'Robert Bilott'

Mark Ruffalo (Rob Bilott) is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors, easily moving between stage and screen. An Academy Award®, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy® nominee, Ruffalo has worked with a diverse group of talented directors including Ang Lee, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Fernando Meirelles and Michel Gondry. 

He recently wrapped production on “I Know This Much Is True,” an eight-episode limited series at HBO based off the best-selling novel of the same name. He is executive producing and starring in the series playing the two main characters. Last summer he was seen reprising his role as Bruce Banner/The Hulk in Avengers: Endgame, the grand conclusion to Marvel Studios’ Avengers franchise, spanning twenty-two films. In 2017, he appeared in Avengers: Infinity War, which grossed $1.6 billion worldwide and was the biggest world-wide film opening since 2002. In 2016, he was seen in Thor: Ragnarok and starred on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s The Price. 

He has been nominated for three Academy Awards® for Best Supporting Actor in the last eight years for Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight, 2016’s Best Picture Academy Award® winner. Spotlight followed the Boston Globe’s coverage of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The film won two Academy Awards® (Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay) out of six nominations. The cast was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the film itself was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture/Drama. 

Ruffalo also received a Golden Globe nomination in 2015 for his role in the Sony Pictures Classics film Infinitely Polar Bear. Ruffalo starred opposite Zoe Saldana as a bipolar husband and father who goes off his medication and proceeds to lose both his job and sanity, while struggling to hold onto his marriage. Earlier in 2015, Ruffalo reprised his role as Bruce Banner/The Hulk in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the hit sequel to Marvel’s The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, the film reunited Ruffalo with co-stars Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and Robert Downey, Jr. 

In 2014, Ruffalo received Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA nominations for his role as the late Olympic wrestler David Schultz in Bennett Miller’s drama, Foxcatcher. The film also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture/Drama. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as Golden Globe and Emmy® nominations, for his role as gay rights activist Ned Weeks in the HBO film “The Normal Heart,” based on the play by Larry Kramer. Directed by Ryan Murphy, the film also starred Julia Roberts and Matt Bomer and received a total of 16 Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Television Movie. It also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. 

Ruffalo earned Academy Award®, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Independent Spirit Award nominations for his performance in Focus Features’ The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Along with that string of nominations, he was also honored with the Best Supporting Actor Award by the New York Film Critics Circle. 

In 2011, Ruffalo made his directorial debut with Sympathy for Delicious, which starred Orlando Bloom and Laura Linney and won the Special Jury Prize for dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival. Ruffalo earned critical recognition in 2000 for his role in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me, opposite Laura Linney and Matthew Broderick. The Martin Scorsese-produced film won the Grand Jury Prize for best film in dramatic competition and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. 

Ruffalo’s other film credits include Thanks for Sharing, Now You See Me, Shutter Island, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Zodiac, The Brothers Bloom, Collateral, 13 Going on 30, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In The Cut, Margaret, Blindness, Just Like Heaven, Reservation Road, All the King’s Men, What Doesn’t Kill You, My Life Without Me, The Last Castle, Windtalkers, XX/XY, Committed, Ride With the Devil, Studio 54, Safe Men, The Last Big Thing, Fish in the Bathtub, Life/Drawing and Begin Again, alongside Keira Knightley and Hailee Steinfeld. 

Ruffalo’s acting roots lie in the theater, where he first gained attention starring in the Off- Broadway production of This Is Our Youth, for which he won a Lucille Award for Best Actor. In 2017, he starred in Arthur Miller’s The Price on Broadway, opposite Danny DeVito. In 2000, he was seen in the Off-Broadway production The Moment When, a play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner James Lapine. He made his theater debut in Avenue A at The Cast Theater. 

A writer, director and producer, Ruffalo co-wrote the screenplay for the independent film The Destiny of Marty Fine. In 2000, he directed Timothy McNeil’s original play Margaret at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles. Ruffalo has also received Dramalogue and Theater World Awards. Ruffalo made his Tony Award-nominated Broadway debut in the 2006 Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing!. 

Ruffalo advocates for addressing climate change and increasing renewable energy. In March 2011, he co-founded Water Defense to raise awareness about energy extraction impact on water and the public health. A regular contributor to the Guardian and Huffington Post, Ruffalo has received the Global Green Millennium Award for Environmental Leadership and the Meera Gandhi Giving Back Foundation Award. He was named one of Time® Magazine’s People Who Mattered in 2011 and received the Big Fish Award from Riverkeeper in 2013. Ruffalo helped launch The Solutions Project in 2012 as part of his mission to share science, business and culture that demonstrates the feasibility of renewable energy.