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Mark Rylance
5 films · 251 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2015–2022
Born 18 January 1960 · آشفورد بمقاطعة كينت، إنجلترا
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright.
He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, between 1995 and 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001). Rylance won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015). Rylance played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl, and appeared in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II. He appeared as James Halliday in Spielberg's 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the novel of the same name.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 251 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2015–2022
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2016
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor2016
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2016
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play2014
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play2011
- Knight Bachelor2017
- Theatre World Award2008
- Sam Wanamaker Award
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Drama League Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 251 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mark takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Mark takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 251 frames from Mark Rylance's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.