Talk:Mark Ruffalo
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Is Mark Ruffalo Jewish?
- A couple of in-depth articles make it pretty clear that he's an Italian-American (i.e. not Jewish unless I'm missing something). He's probably Catholic, but I haven't seen that stated yet.
"Ruffalo, 32, left when he was 13, after attending Lance Middle School, but he still returns to visit his father, grandparents and sister.
"I had a great childhood there," Ruffalo said.
"I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love."
Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first.
He appeared in the high school play while living in Virginia "and, after that, I put away acting as a totally useless thing I could never make it at or do," he said. "But I couldn't find anything better."" http://www.jsonline.com/enter/movies/dudek/dec00/count21122000.asp?format=print
"“I was brought up in Kenosha, Wis., a factory town,” he said. “My mom was a hairstylist. My dad was a construction painter. He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. I was very lonely for him.”
Mark is the oldest son of Frank and Maria Ruffalo, second-generation Italian-Americans. His three siblings—Scott, Tania and Nicole—are all hairdressers.
When Mark was 13, the family moved to Virginia Beach, Va. “My dad’s painting company had collapsed,” he explained. “In Virginia, he started a business called Soda Butler: You deliver syrup to people, and they carbonate their own soda at home. That fizzled out. We got poorer and poorer. It caused a lot of anger at home.”" http://archive.parade.com/2004/0509/0509_mark_ruffalo.html Vulturell 02:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
The article says he won the Tony for "Awake and Sing," but I don't think he did...
Didn't win -- was nominated. Change made.
[edit] Definitely NPOV
"'So called' chick flicks?" "Acclaim for his work?" Is he too good for chick flicks and does everyone really love him?209.158.115.50 16:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Controversy and attraction
- He attracted controversy for his steamy sex scenes with Meg Ryan as a sleazy, potentially dangerous homicide cop in Jane Campion's dark psychosexual thriller In the Cut (2003).
Was this supposed to mean that SOMEONE criticized him? If so, who? And by the way, controversy is not criticism. It's not a controversy unless there is a dispute between 2 or more sides. --Wing Nut 17:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Mark Ruffalo is cute and fine
I don't think there is a NPOV problem here. I would remove the NPOV marker.
