Mark Rylance
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"David Mark Rylance Waters", known professionally as "Mark Rylance", is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright. He has appeared in films such as Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001 film)/Intimacy (2001), and has won Olivier Awards, Tony Awards, and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts/BAFTA Award. He was the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005. In 2015 he played Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall (TV series)/Wolf Hall, BBC Two's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's historical novels. He stars with Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's upcoming film about the 1960 U-2 incident involving Francis Gary Powers entitled St. James Place.

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You would no sooner ask me to play Shakespeare away from the Globe than you'd ask some rock star to make his new record on eight-track tape.

It just came into my soul that the time and place was changing and that I wasn't the right leader for the Globe anymore.

There's a weak place in every plot, ladies and gentleman, (and) in this case, the weak place is the plot.

If something happened to Erin or Erin's job, they would be in serious trouble.