Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance ( born January 18, 1960 in Ashford, Kent, England; Complete name: David Mark Rylance Waters) is a British- American actor and theater director.
Life
Rylance was born in 1960 in England. In 1962 his parents moved, both English teachers, with him in the United States.
In the autumn of 1976 he played Hamlet by William Shakespeare in a school play. In the summer of 1977, he played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the University of Milwaukee First Shakespeare Festival. In the same year he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he received his training under Hugh Cruttwell between 1978 and 1980. After that, he was educated at the Chrysalis Theatre School in Balham ( London) by Barbara Bridgmont on.
In 1980 he got his first job at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. 1982/83 he played at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford- upon- Avon. He then worked with the London Theatre of Imagination, the Royal Opera House, the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and Mike Alfreds Shared Experience at the Royal National Theatre. In 1987 he met the musician and composer Claire van Kampen, whom he married in 1989.
In 1990 he founded together with his wife, the theater company Phoebus Cart. Rylance was then invited by Sam Wanamaker, founder of the Globe to become a member of the College Director. From 1995 on he was ten years of the first artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London. Under his leadership, a piece for the Globe for the first time in four hundred years, again written and performed, namely in 2000, Augustine 's Oak by Peter Oswald.
2010 Rylance was elected to a survey by the British trade magazine The Stage behind Judi Dench and Maggie Smith at number three of the " best of British theater actor of all time".
Mark Rylance has been a member of the Francis Bacon Research Trust, the Club of Budapest and the UN Peace One Day Campaign. He is also ambassador of the international human rights organization Survival International.
Theater roles
- 2004 Measure for Measure ( Measure for Measure ): Duke / Monk
- 2003 Richard II: Richard II
- 2001 Cymbeline: Cymbeline
- 2000 Hamlet: Hamlet
- 1999 Antony and Cleopatra ( Antony and Cleopatra ): Cleopatra
- 1998 Merchant of Venice ( The Merchant of Venice): Bassanio
- 1997 Henry V ( Henry V ): Henry V
- 1996 Two Gentlemen of Verona ( Two Gentlemen of Verona): Proteus
- 1994 Donmar Warehouse True West: Lee / Austin.
- 1994 Theatre For a New Audience ( New York) As You Like It ( How You Like It ): Touchstone
- 1993 Queens Theatre Much Ado About Nothing ( Much Ado About Nothing ): Benedick
- 1989 RSC, Stratford -upon -Avon, Hamlet: Hamlet
Movies
In addition to his career in the theater Rylance starred in a number of TV and cinema productions. As a result, a selection of his commitment shown:
- 2011: Anonymous ( Anonymous )
- 2011: Blitz - Cop Killer vs.. Killer Cop ( Flash)
- 2008: The Other Boleyn Girl ( The Other Boleyn Girl) by Justin Chadwick from a novel by Philippa Gregory: Thomas Boleyn
- 2001: Intimacy: Jay
- 1995: Angels and Insects ( Angels & Insects ) ( 1995): William Adamson
- 1991: The Grass Arena by Gillies MacKinnon: John Healy
- 1987: Hearts of Fire: Fizz
- 1985: The McGuffin: Gavin
- 2005: The Government Inspector Dr. David Kelly
- 2003: Richard II: Richard II
- 2003: Leonardo: Leonardo Da Vinci
- 2001: Changing Stages: itself
- 2000: William Shakespeare: Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre
- 1995: Loving: Charlie Raunce
- 1993: Love Lies Bleeding: Conn
Works
- Mark Rylance: Play - A Recollection in Pictures and Words of the First Five Years of Play at Shakespeares 's Globe Theatre. Photogr. Sheila Burnett, Donald Cooper, Richard Kolina, John Tramper. Shakespeare 's Globe Pub, London, UK. 2003 ISBN. 0-9536480-4-4.