Though the tumor was benign, the resulting surgery led to a period of partial facial paralysis, from which he fully recovered. Notable roles in The Last Castle (2001), XX/XY (2002), and Windtalkers (2002) followed, although in 2002 Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor.
The performance drew rave reviews and invited comparisons to an early Marlon Brando. This led to his male lead in Lonergan's Oscar-winning film drama You Can Count on Me (2000), playing the ne'er-do-well brother of Laura Linney. Ruffalo won NY success in Lonergan's 1996 off-Broadway play "This Is Our Youth," a story about troubled young adults. Bartending for nearly nearly a decade to make ends meet and discouraged enough to give it up, a chance meeting and resulting collaboration with playwright/screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan approaching the millennium changed everything. The Ritual of Love (1976) directed by Ang Lee. He continued on through the 1990's rather indistinctly with more secondary roles in the horror film The Dentist (1996) starring madman Corbin Bernsen an amusing perf in the obscure dramedy The Last Big Thing (1996) a third billed role in the Jerry Stiller/ Anne Meara bickering senior comedy A Fish in the Bathtub (1998) and the war drama Ceremony.
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Moving into film and TV, Mark's inauspicious movie debut was the drifter role of Christian in the horror opus Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994) and returned to the film series in the role of Joey with Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyeur (1995). From acting, writing, directing and producing to running the lights and building sets while building his resume. Mark first took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and subsequently co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company, an Equity-Waiver establishment, where he worked in nearly every capacity.
Following high school, Mark moved with his family to San Diego and soon migrated north, eventually settling in Los Angeles. Mark moved with his family to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he lived out most of his teenage years. Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half Italian descent.
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