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Mark Rylance (born 18 January 1960) is an English actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, theatre director
Theatre direction

A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production....
 and playwright.

As an actor, Rylance found success on stage and screen. For his work in theatre he has won Olivier and Tony Awards among others, and a BAFTA
British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation....
 TV Award. His film roles include Ferdinand in Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books , written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters....
 (after a play by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
), Jay in Intimacy
Intimacy (2001 film)

Intimacy , directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. In London, a bartender who has regular, casual sex with a mysterious woman every Wednesday, becomes curious about her life and spies on her, with unintended consequences for their relationship....
 (after a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi Order of the British Empire is an England playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of Race , nationalism, immigration, and human sexuality....
) and Jakob von Gunten
Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch is a novel by Swiss writer Robert Walser first published in German language in 1909 in literature....
 in Institute Benjamenta (after a novel by Robert Walser
Robert Walser (writer)

Robert Walser , was a German language-speaking Swiss writer....
).

He was the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which officially opened in 1997, is a reconstruction of The Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, from 1995 to 2005.

nce was born David Mark Rylance Waters in Ashford, Kent
Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways....
, the son of David and Anne (Skinner) Waters, both English teachers (as an adult, he took the stage name of Mark Rylance because the name Mark Waters was already taken by someone else registered with Actors Equity
Actors' Equity Association

Actors' Equity Association , founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society....
).






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Mark Rylance (born 18 January 1960) is an English actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, theatre director
Theatre direction

A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production....
 and playwright.

As an actor, Rylance found success on stage and screen. For his work in theatre he has won Olivier and Tony Awards among others, and a BAFTA
British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation....
 TV Award. His film roles include Ferdinand in Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books , written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters....
 (after a play by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
), Jay in Intimacy
Intimacy (2001 film)

Intimacy , directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. In London, a bartender who has regular, casual sex with a mysterious woman every Wednesday, becomes curious about her life and spies on her, with unintended consequences for their relationship....
 (after a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi Order of the British Empire is an England playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of Race , nationalism, immigration, and human sexuality....
) and Jakob von Gunten
Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch is a novel by Swiss writer Robert Walser first published in German language in 1909 in literature....
 in Institute Benjamenta (after a novel by Robert Walser
Robert Walser (writer)

Robert Walser , was a German language-speaking Swiss writer....
).

He was the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which officially opened in 1997, is a reconstruction of The Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, from 1995 to 2005.

Biography


Early years

Rylance was born David Mark Rylance Waters in Ashford, Kent
Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways....
, the son of David and Anne (Skinner) Waters, both English teachers (as an adult, he took the stage name of Mark Rylance because the name Mark Waters was already taken by someone else registered with Actors Equity
Actors' Equity Association

Actors' Equity Association , founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society....
). In 1962, when he was two, his parents moved to Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and in 1969, to Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
, where his father was headmaster at a prestigious preparatory school, the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance later attended the school, where he began acting. His first notable role was Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 in a 1976 production (with his own father as the First Gravedigger), and the next year Puck
Puck

Puck may refer to:* Puck , a nature spirit* Puck , used instead of a ball in ice hockey and other sports* Puck , a late 20th century US periodical...
 in A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic love Shakespearean comedies by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596....
, during the First Shakespeare Festival at his father's school.

Career

With considerable juvenile experience already in hand, Rylance won a scholarship by audition to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. There he trained from 1978-1980 under Hugh Cruttwell
Hugh Cruttwell

Hugh Percival Cruttwell was an influential teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts....
, and with Barbara Bridgmont at the Chrysalis Theatre School, Balham
Balham

Balham may refer to:*Balham, London, a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England*Balham station, a National Rail and London underground station in the place of the same name in London...
, London. In 1980 he got his first professional work at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.

In 1982 and 1983, Rylance performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
 (RSC) both in Stratford upon Avon and London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

In 1988, Rylance played Hamlet with the RSC in Ron Daniel
Ron Daniel

Professor Ron Daniel is University Lecturer in Engineering Science at University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Engineering at Brasenose College, Oxford....
s' acclaimed production that toured Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 and England for a year. The play then ran in Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, Warwickshire, south east of Birmingham and south west of the county town, Warwick....
, where Mark alternated Hamlet with Romeo in the production of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
 that inaugurated the rebuilt Swan theatre
Swan Theatre (Stratford)

The Swan Theatre is a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is built on to the side of the larger Royal Shakespeare Theatre, occupying the Victorian Gothic structure that formerly housed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre that preceded the RST but was destroyed by fire....
 in Stratford. Hamlet toured to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for two years.

In 1990, Rylance and van Kampen founded "Phoebus' Cart", their own theatre company. The following year, the company staged The Tempest
The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
 on the road in unique, unusual sites.

Also in 1991, Rylance played the lead in Gillies Mackinnon
Gillies MacKinnon

Gillies MacKinnon is a Scotland film director and screenplay. His film credits include Hideous Kinky , Small Faces and Regeneration ....
's film The Grass Arena (1991)
The Grass Arena (1991)

The Grass Arena is an autobiography that was made into a United Kingdom film released in 1991 in film. It is based on the true story of John Healy.The book had been out of print for a number of years, but was re-issued on 31 July, 2008....
, and won the BBC Radio Times Award for Best Newcomer. In 1993, he starred in Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus

Matthew Warchus is an award-winning English director and dramatist.Warchus studied music and drama at Bristol University. He has directed for the National Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera...
' production of Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
 at the Queen's Theatre
Queen's Theatre

The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 with a comedy called The Sugar Bowl by Madeleine Lucette Ryley....
, produced by Thelma Holt. His Benedick won him an Olivier Award for Best Actor.

In 2005, he took the leading role as British weapons expert David Kelly in The Government Inspector
The Government Inspector (television drama)

The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom....
, an award-winning Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 production for which he himself won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

1950's *1954 Paul Rogers *1955 Peter Cushing *1956 Michael Gough *1957 Michael Hordern *1958 Donald Pleasence *1959 Patrick McGoohan ...
, 2005.

In 2007, Rylance performed in Boeing Boeing
Boeing Boeing (play)

Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti . The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years....
 in London. In 2008, he reprised the role on Broadway and subsequently won Drama Desk
Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award which recognizes theatres produced on Broadway theatre, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters....
 and Tony Awards
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play presented since 1947, is awarded to actors in productions of new or revival plays....
 for his performance. For his acceptance speech for the Tony, Rylance read from a work by poet Louis Jenkins
Louis Jenkins

Louis Jenkins is a Prose poetry from Enid, Oklahoma. He has lived in Duluth, Minnesota, for over 30 years with his wife Ann. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies....
.

Globe Theatre
In 1995, Rylance was named first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a role he would serve until 2005.

  • Rylance directed and acted in every season, in works by Shakespeare and others, notably in all-male productions of Twelfth Night where he starred as Olivia, and Richard II
    Richard II (play)

    'King Richard the Second' is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part...
     where he took the title role.
  • Under his directorate, the first new play for the Globe in 400 years, Augustine's Oak (ref. to Augustine of Canterbury and Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England) written by Peter Oswald
    Peter Oswald

    Peter Oswald is a well-known English playwright. He is married to the poet Alice Oswald, with whom he has three children. They live in Devon, South West England....
    , writer-in-residence, was performed in 1999. A second play by Oswald followed in 2002: The Golden Ass
    The Golden Ass

    The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass , is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety....
     or the Curious Man    . In 2005, Oswald's third play written for the Globe was performed for the first time: The Storm, an adaptation of Plautus
    Plautus

    Titus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as Plautus, was a Ancient Rome playwright. His comedy are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature....
    ' comedy Rudens (The Rope) - one of the sources of Shakespeare's The Tempest
    The Tempest

    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
    .
  • Other historical first nights organized by Rylance as director of Shakespeare's Globe include Twelfth Night performed in 2002 at Middle Temple
    Middle Temple

    The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn....
    , to commemorate its first performance there exactly 400 years before, and Much Ado about Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
     at Hampton Court in summer 2004 .


Shakespeare controversy
On September 8, 2007, Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
 and Mark Rylance unveiled a on the authorship of Shakespeare's work, after the final matinee
Matinée

Matin?e may refer to:* A performance of a play which takes place in the afternoon, as opposed to the evening*Matinee , by Franz Ferdinand*Matin?e , by Jack Pe?ate...
 of I am Shakespeare, a play in Chichester
Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city status in the United Kingdom in West Sussex, England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Ancient Rome past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

The actual author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 was identified as Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an Kingdom of England Playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost English Renaissance theatre tragedy next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death....
, Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban King's Counsel , son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author....
, the Earl of Oxford
Earl of Oxford

Earl of Oxford was one of the older titles in the English peerage, and was held for several centuries by the de Vere family from 1141. It finally became dormant in 1703 with the death of the 20th Earl....
, Edward de Vere, or Mary Sidney
Mary Sidney

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke n?e Mary Sidney , was one of the first England women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, translations and literary patronage....
 (Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke). The declaration
Declaration

Declaration may refer to:*The United States Declaration of Independence*Declaration and forfeiture, when the captain of a cricket team declares their innings closed...
 named 20 prominent doubters of the past, including Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
, Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
, Sir John Gielgud and Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 and was made by Shakespeare Authorship Coalition duly signed online by 300 people to begin a new research
Research

Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovery , interpretation , and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe....
. Jacobi and Rylance presented a copy of the document
Document

A document is a bounded physical representation of body of information designed with the capacity to communication. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information....
 to William Leahy
William Leahy

William Leahy is the name of a number of notable persons including:* William D. Leahy , American naval officer, colonial official, and diplomat...
, head of English at Brunel University
Brunel University

Brunel University is a university situated in West London, England....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Rylance wrote (co-conceived by John Dove) and starred in The BIG Secret Live—I am Shakespeare—Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show (A comedy of Shakespearean identity crisis) which toured England in 2007.

Personal life

In 1992 he married Claire van Kampen whom he met while working at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
. His stepdaughter is actress Juliet Rylance.

Work


Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

  • 1996 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. It has the smallest cast of any of Shakespeare's plays, and is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy....
    : Proteus
  • 1997 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
    A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

    A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a city comedy written c. 1613 by England English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Unpublished until 1630 in literature and long-neglected afterwards, it is now considered among the best and most characteristic Jacobean comedies....
    : Mr Allwit
  • 1997 Henry V
    Henry V (play)

    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
    : Henry V
  • 1998 The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a Shakespearean comedies in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedy, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for...
    : Bassanio
  • 1998 The Honest Whore
    The Honest Whore

    The Honest Whore is an early Literature_in_English#Jacobean_literature city comedy, written in two parts; Part 1 is a collaboration between Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, while Part 2 is the work of Dekker alone....
    : Hippolito
  • 1999 Antony and Cleopatra
    Antony and Cleopatra

    Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623.The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony from the time of the Roman-Persian Wars to Cleopatra's suicide....
    : Cleopatra
  • 2000 Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
    : Hamlet
  • 2001 Cymbeline
    Cymbeline

    Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a Shakespeare's Late Romances....
    : Cymbeline (toured to New York in March 2002)
  • 2002 The Golden Ass
    The Golden Ass

    The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass , is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety....
     (Apuleius
    Apuleius

    Lucius Apuleius Platonicus was a Roman Empire Berber people who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", remembered most for his ribaldry Picaresque novel Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass or, in Latin, the Asinus Aureus ....
    ' ancient novel adapted by Peter Oswald
    Peter Oswald

    Peter Oswald is a well-known English playwright. He is married to the poet Alice Oswald, with whom he has three children. They live in Devon, South West England....
    ): Lucius
  • 2002 Twelfth Night: Olivia (won the Olivier critics award)- (toured to US cities in autumn of 2003: LA, Chicago etc)
  • 2003 Richard II
    Richard II (play)

    'King Richard the Second' is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part...
    : Richard II (also TV broadcast on BBC 4)
  • 2004 Measure for Measure
    Measure for Measure

    Measure for Measure is a Play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was originally classified as a comedy, but is now also classified as one of Shakespeare's Problem plays s....
    : Duke Vincentio (also TV broadcast on BBC 4 and toured to US cities in autumn of 2005)
  • 2005 The Tempest: Prospero / Stephano / Sebastian / Alonso
  • 2005 The Storm: Daemones / Labrax / The Weather ("you can call me Clement")


Other theatres

  • 1981 Desperado Corner
    Desperado Corner

    Desperado Corner is a play written for the stage by English playwright Shaun Lawton. It started out as a collection of performance poetrys and monologues written and performed by Lawton in London between 1973 and 1976....
     at the Citizens Theatre, in Glasgow
  • with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 1989 Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
     (Hamlet) and Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
     (Romeo), also 1982 The Tempest
    The Tempest

    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
     (Ariel)
  • 1993 Henry V, Theatre For a New Audience, NYC
  • 1993 Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
    : Benedick, Queens Theatre (won the Olivier Award for best actor)
  • 1994 As You Like It
    As You Like It

    As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623....
    : Touchstone, Theatre For a New Audience (NYC)
  • 1994 True West
    True West (play)

    True West is a play by United States playwright Sam Shepard. Like most of his works it is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture....
    : Lee/Austin, Donmar Warehouse
    Donmar Warehouse

    Donmar Warehouse is a small not for profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of the London Borough of Camden, with seating for 250 playgoers....
  • 1995 Macbeth
    Macbeth

    Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....
    : Macbeth, Greenwich Theatre
    Greenwich Theatre

    The Greenwich Theatre is a local theatre located in Croom's Hill close to the centre of Greenwich in south-east London....
  • 2000 Live x 3: Henry, Royal National Theatre
    Royal National Theatre

    The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
  • 2007 Boeing Boeing
    Boeing Boeing (play)

    Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti . The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years....
    : Robert, Comedy Theatre
    Comedy Theatre

    The Comedy Theatre, is a West End Theatre, and opened on Panton Street in the City of Westminster, on 15 October 1881, as the Royal Comedy Theatre....
  • 2007 I am Shakespeare: Frank, UK tour
  • 2008 Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt

    Peer Gynt is a five-Act play in Verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Interpreted in its day as a satire on the Norwegian people personality, Peer Gynt is the story of a life based on avoidance....
    : Peer Gynt, Guthrie Theater
    Guthrie Theater

    The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in an atmosphere removed from the commercial...
     (Minneapolis)
  • 2008 Boeing Boeing
    Boeing Boeing (play)

    Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti . The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years....
    : Robert, Longacre Theater (won 2008 Tony
    62nd Tony Awards

    The 62nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 15, 2008. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre....
     Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play)


Filmography

  • The McGuffin (1985) .... Gavin
  • Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985) (TV) .... Nikki Fodor
  • The Grass Arena (1991)
    The Grass Arena (1991)

    The Grass Arena is an autobiography that was made into a United Kingdom film released in 1991 in film. It is based on the true story of John Healy.The book had been out of print for a number of years, but was re-issued on 31 July, 2008....
     .... John Healy (won the BBC Radio Times Award for Best Newcomer)
  • Prospero's Books
    Prospero's Books

    Prospero's Books , written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters....
     (1991) .... Ferdinand
  • Love Lies Bleeding (1993) (TV) .... Conn
  • Loving (1995) (TV) .... Charlie Raunce
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) ....Jakob von Gunten
    Jakob von Gunten

    Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch is a novel by Swiss writer Robert Walser first published in German language in 1909 in literature....
  • Angels & Insects
    Angels & Insects

    Angels & Insects is a 1995 in film romance film and drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was screenwriter by Philip and Belinda Haas with A....
     (1995) .... William Adamson
  • Biography playing "Hamlet/Himself" in episode: Hamlet (February 1995) (TV)
  • Henry V
    Henry V (play)

    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
     (1997) (TV) .... King Henry V
  • Intimacy
    Intimacy (2001 film)

    Intimacy , directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. In London, a bartender who has regular, casual sex with a mysterious woman every Wednesday, becomes curious about her life and spies on her, with unintended consequences for their relationship....
     (2001) .... Jay
  • Leonardo (2003) (TV) .... Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
  • Hearts of Fire (1987) .... Fizz
  • William Shakespeare (2000) .... Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe
  • Changing Stages (2001) (TV) Series .... Himself
  • Richard II
    Richard II (play)

    'King Richard the Second' is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part...
     (2003) (TV) .... Richard II
  • Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003) (TV)
  • Breakfast playing "Himself" (19 April 2004) (TV)
  • The Government Inspector (2005) (TV) .... Dr. David Kelly
  • The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) .... Thomas Boleyn


Bibliography

  • 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 Publ., London, UK. 2003. ISBN 0-9536480-4-4.
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare Series by Peter Dawkins
    Peter Dawkins (FBRT)

    Peter Dawkins is an internationally known author, teacher, consultant and leader of workshops and pilgrimages worldwide.Peter is a recognised authority on the Baconian-Rosicrucian philosophies and Ancient Wisdom teachings, including especially the wisdom enshrined within the Shakespeare Plays, and is the Founder-Director of the Francis Bac...
     (Foreword by Mark Rylance):
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare in As You Like It. I.C. Media Productions, 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-1-X.
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. I.C. Media Productions, 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-0-1.
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. I.C. Media Productions, 1999. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-2-8.
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Tempest. I.C. Media Productions, 2000. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-3-6.
  • The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. I.C. Media Productions, 2002. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-4-4.
  • Peter Dawkins
    Peter Dawkins (FBRT)

    Peter Dawkins is an internationally known author, teacher, consultant and leader of workshops and pilgrimages worldwide.Peter is a recognised authority on the Baconian-Rosicrucian philosophies and Ancient Wisdom teachings, including especially the wisdom enshrined within the Shakespeare Plays, and is the Founder-Director of the Francis Bac...
    . The Shakespeare Enigma (Foreword by Mark Rylance). Polair, UK. 2004. Illustrated paperback, 476pp. ISBN 0-9545389-4-3.


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