Mark Ruffalo

For those who are fans of the Marvel movies, he played Bruce Banner, aka The Incredible Hulk

Birth name: Mark Alan Ruffalo

DOB: 11/22/1967

Where: Kenosha, Wisconsin

Trivia

-His mother Marie Rose was a hairdresser and stylist while his father Frank was a construction painter

-In 2002, he was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor, which resulted in partial facial paralysis. He has since recovered

-Spent nearly a decade bartending before entering the show business world

-He was scheduled to appear in the 2002 film Signs. Unfortunately, he had to drop out due to a brain tumor that was discovered. After undergoing brain surgery, he suffered from partial facial paralysis. He has since fully recovered

-He had a brother named Scott who committed suicide on Dec. 8, 2008 outside his Beverly Hills home. It was discovered he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head

-All three of his siblings, Scott, Tanya Marie and Nicole, are all hairstylists

-Prior to playing the role of the Incredible Hulk, he was a fan of the comic series and television show, just like his predecessor, Edward Norton

-He and Benicio Del Toro were classmates at the Stella Adler Drama School in Los Angeles

-He can successfully play the bass guitar

Filmography

Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1995)

-Christian

The Dentist (1996)

-Steve Landers

54 (1998)

-Ricko

You Can Count on Me (2000)

-Terry

The Last Castle (2001)

-Yates

Windtalkers (2002)

-Pappas

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

-Stan

13 Going On 30 (2004)

-Matt Flamhaff

Collateral (2004)

-Fanning

Rumor Has It...(2005)

-Jeff Daly

All the King's Men (2006)

-Adam Stanton

Zodiac (2007)

-Inspector David Toschi

Reservation Road (2007)

-Dwight Arno

Shutter Island (2010)

-Chuck Aule

Date Night (2010)

-Brad Sullivan

The Avengers (2012)

-Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk

Now You See Me (2013)

-Dylan Rhodes

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

-Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk

Now You See Me 2 (2016)

-Dylan Rhodes

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

-Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

-Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

-Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk

Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025)

-Dylan Rhodes

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

The third installment in the highly successful Ocean's series

Summary

-One of the original crew members, Reuben Tishkoff, was ripped off by casino manager Willy Bank. Now it's time for the crew to plan a third heist as payback

Cast

-George Clooney: Danny Ocean

-Brad Pitt: Rusty Ryan

-Matt Damon: Linus Caldwell / Lenny Pepperidge

-Michael Mantell: Dr. Ryan

-Elliott Gould: Reueb Tishkoff

-Al Pacino: Willy Bank

-Eddie Jemison: Livingston Dell

-Don Cheadle: Basher Tarr

-Shaobo Qin: Yen

-Casey Affleck: Virgil Malloy

-Scott Caan: Turk Malloy

-Bernie Mac: Frank Catton

-Carl Reiner: Saul Bloom

-Eddie Izzard: Roman Nagel

-Ellen Barkin: Abigail Sponder

-Julian Sands: Greco Montgomery

-Don McManus: Neil the Pit Boss

Did You Know?

-The scenes showing Linus walking through the streets of London talking on the phone were shot while Matt Damon was in London filming The Bourne Ultimatum. The production crew of Ocean's Thirteen took advantage of this, as they wanted the character Greco to be British and a former classmate of Roman Nagel

-The phone Abigail Sponder gives Willy Bank is a custom made Gold Samsung, made just for the movie

-The numbers Mr. Weng picks on the roulette wheel, 11, 12, 13, all refer to the films in the Ocean's series

-This was one of Bernie Mac's final roles on screen before his death on August 9, 2008, at the age of 50

-Director Steven Soderbergh had Al Pacino in mind first as the role of Willy Bank. The producer for the film, Jerry Weintraub, is a good friend of Pacino's and convinced him to be in the film

-All of the scenes featuring Al Pacino were shot in 3 weeks

-This film reunited Al Pacino and Andy Garcia after they worked together on The Godfather Pt. III (1990)

-The ringtone on Rusty's phone is The Human League's "Don't You Want Me"

-In the scene where the pit boss is seen leaving a pawn shop, he passes by a sign reading "Griffin". In Las Vegas, The Griffin Agency is responsible for helping casinos spot card counters and cheaters. In this area of town, The Griffin Bar is downtown

-The stuntman who Don Cheadle impersonates uses the stage name "Fender Roads." This is a homonym of "Fender Rhodes", an electric piano made by the Fender Corporation in the 1940s and 1950s, developed by Harold Rhodes

-This film reunites both Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin, both of whom starred in the 1989 film Sea of Love

-Terry Benedicts pretends to show interest in the 'Nuff Said dominoes game. The real Bellagio features a dominoes game called Pai Gow, which originated in China

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

This is the second installment of the highly successful Ocean's series

Summary

-Danny and the crew, plus an additional member, head to Europe to pull off three major heists

Cast

-Brad Pitt: Rusty Ryan

-Catherine Zeta-Jones: Isabel Lahiri

-George Clooney: Danny Ocean

-Julia Roberts: Tess Ocean

-Casey Affleck: Virgil Malloy

-Andy Garcia: Terry Benedict

-Scott Caan: Turk Malloy

-Shaobo Qin: Yen

-Don Cheadle: Basher Tarr

-Matt Damon: Linus Caldwell

-Carl Reiner: Saul Bloom

-Robbie Coltrane: Matsui

Did You Know?

-For the laser dance, Vincent Cassel didn't need a stuntman. He is an expert in the Brazilian martial art known as capoeira. He did the entire dance himself

-While shooting in Rome, Brad Pitt and George Clooney got caught in the rain while jogging. The doorman of their hotel wouldn't let them enter the hotel because he thought they were vagrants

-Sitting on the shores of Lake Como in Italy is the Nigh Fox's mansion. The city overlooking Lake Como is called Bellagio. The city and lake inspired the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas, where the site of the original heist was in 2001's Ocean's Eleven

-The necklace that Rusty Ryan wears is a replica of a necklace with the wedding ring that Brad Pitt wore when he was married to Jennifer Aniston

-Despite Europol being a police organization in Europe, they have no executive powers to execute warrants or arrest people like they are shown in the movie. They exist to foster cooperation between the police services in Europe

-Unlike the movie, where it suggests that Europol is in Amsterdam, in real life Europol is located in The Hague, where many war crimes are put on trial. Many of the scenes showing the Europol office were shot in the city hall of The Hague and this location is only 50km south of Amsterdam

-In the scene with the train, Turk is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox cap while Danny is seen wearing a New York Yankees cap. This was to make it seem more realistic to distract the guards on the train. This is because the Yankees and the Red Sox have been rivals for over 100 years and their fans don't get along with each other

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

This is one of the more well known heist films starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney

Summary

-Danny Ocean is a gangster with the ultimate heist in mind. Rob three casinos simultaneously during a popular boxing event. To make this work, he will need a group of associates with specific areas of expertise

Cast

-George Clooney: Danny Ocean

-Bernie Mac: Frank Catton

-Brad Pitt: Rusty Ryan

-Elliott Gould: Reuben Tischoff

-Casey Affleck: Virgil Malloy

-Scott Caan: Turk Malloy

-Shaobo Qin: Yen

-Lori Galinski: Blackjack Dealer

-Matt Damon: Linus

-Andy Garcia: Terry Benedict

-Julia Roberts: Tess Ocean

-James Curatola: Baccarat Dealer

Did You Know?

-The security staff at The Bellagio allowed the crew to tap into their real security system to obtain real surveillance of the casino

-Andy Garcia struggled to do a serious scene with Carl Reiner because Reiner was amusing

-While auditioning with the Peking Acrobats, Shaobo Qin was spotted and asked to audition for the role of Yen

-During off time, the cast gambled. There was a debate about who won the most. George Clooney, it was said, had lost 25 hands of blackjack

-The role Matt Damon plays, Linus Caldwell, was originally supposed to go to Mark Wahlberg. But he turned down this role to star in the 2001 film Planet of the Apes

-Don Cheadle, whose character used a London-based Cockney accent, said it was not great. He wanted to change it, but his agent refused

-Since Shaobo Qin didn't speak much English, and this was his film debut, he had a Chinese translator on set to tell him what to do

-The entire crew of the movie was granted full access to The Bellagio. The reason being that producer Jerry Weintraub was good friends with former owner Steve Wynn. Wynn had sold the casino to Kirk Kerkorian prior to filming, but Weintraub was also friends with him

-The arguments Virgil and Turk have were based on arguments that screenwriter Ted Griffin and his brother had as kids

-The Bellagio had closed their valet parking area for the movie. Even the visiting high rollers had to use the parking garage, just like everyone else

-Bernie Mac improvised a lot of his lines, such as "You want me to get on the table and dance?"

-For the montage of Las Vegas, the Elvis Presley song "A Little Less Conversation" was chosen because it sounded like a Vegas song, rather than "Viva Las Vegas". While being one of Elvis' least known songs, it was given a modern remake thanks to Thomas Holkenborg, who is known as Junkie XL, and it became a hit on the radio

-The boxing match is between boxers Wladimir Klitschko and Lennox Lewis. While these two have never actually fought each other, on June 1, 2003, Lewis fought Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir's older brother, and won

-Don Cheadle went to London to talk to people to learn how to speak with a Cockney accent for his character Basher Tarr

-The prison Danny Ocean is released from, North Jersey State Prison, is actually the East Jersey State Prison, which was formerly known as the Rahway State Prison. The area where his parole interview was being held was the "Drill Hall", where inmates have their indoor gym / recreation area. The cell block Danny was leaving was "3-Wing", which was a regular and working cell block. The other inmates were either confined to their cells or relocated to other parts of the prison for filming. The "officer" who was escorting Danny was, in real life, a Lieutenant and, at the time of filming, he was the coordinator of the "Scared Straight" program, which would take at-risk youths and show them the reality of prison if they didn't change their ways

-Both Scott Caan and Andy Garcia have a connection to The Godfather series. Scott Caan's father is James Caan, who played Santino "Sonny" Corleone while Andy Garcia played Vincent Mancini, the love child of Sonny and his mistress Lucy Mancini in The Godfather Part III

-When Danny gets released from prison again, Tess makes a comment that goes "We have to get Rusty a girl." Rusty replies "There's a women's prison down the road." In real life, there is a women's prison, the only women's prison in all of New Jersey, roughly an hour away from the "North Jersey State Prison" in Rahway, New Jersey. It's called the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility

-The Malloy twins are played by Scott Caan and Casey Affleck. Their first names are Virgil and Turk. This is a nod to The Godfather, specifically one of the men who gets killed in the restaurant, Virgil "Turk" Sollozzo. Scott Caan's father is James Caan, whose meeting with Sollozzo resulted in an assassination attempt on Don Vito Corleone

-When Bernie Mac's character Frank Catton is shaking hands with a car salesman named Billy Tim Denham, that character is played by Joe La Due. This actor also appeared in the film Casino. He was the one whose hand was smashed by a hammer because he was found to be cheating at blackjack

The Grinch (2000)

This was one of my all time favorite PlayStation games

Summary

-It's your job as The Grinch to undo all of the holiday cheer for the Whos of Whoville. With your sidekick Max, you'll steal presents and decorations. But, watch out for those Whos that are determined to stop you!

Levels

-Each area has a specific set of tasks that need to be accomplished. Once accomplished, you'll see "Mission Complete" scroll across the screen. There are blueprints to collect in each level, which will need to be assembled to gain new powerups. You'll also need to leave the areas and come back with the powerups to do later missions

-There will be blueprints you need to pick up and assemble to gain new gadgets

Rotten Egg Launcher. Your most effective gadget

Marine Mobile. Explore the underwater world

Slime Shooter. Slime anyone for a short time

Jet Spring. Reach new heights

Grinch Copter. Fly around

Octopus Climbing Device. Ascend / descend walls

Whoville

-The main city near The Grinch's home. Explore the city, learn your way around and look for items you'll need later on, such as mission-related items, blueprints for inventions, etc.

-Some of the missions here include: Shuffle the Mail. This involves going to the post office and sneaking past security. Use Max to go into the air shafts to unlock the doors to shuffle the mail in each room. By door 4, the security has been turned off. Modify the Statue involves going to City Hall and using a hammer and chisel to modify the statue of Mayor Whovier. Painting the Mayor's Posters involves using a paint bucket to vandalize the posters. Smashing the Snowmen involves butt dropping them to smash them. Egging the Houses involves using the Rotten Egg Launcher to shoot rotten eggs into all of the open windows. Advancing the Countdown Clock will require the Jetspring, to give you the power you need to reach the hatch to the upper levels. And then you'll need to solve a few puzzles to get to the top

Vandalize the Mayor's Posters

Watch out for kids and other Whos

Modify the Mayor's Statue

-The blue prints here should allow you to assemble your first powerup, the Rotten Egg Launcher and the Jetspring

Who Forest

-The mountainous ski resort outside of Whoville. Explore the city, learn your way around and look for items you'll need later on, such as mission-related items, blueprints for inventions, etc

These chimneys are where you put the beehives

Shoot the swirling target to activate the lift

Shoot the snow above the dog to trap it long enough to enter the area

-Some of the missions here include: Putting bees in cabins. Use the jet spring to take hives you have collected (you will be timed on this otherwise the bees will attack) and you will shake the hives and put them down the chimneys. For the cabin in the center of the resort, it is situated on a tall tree top. You will need to ascend the cliff across from it and use the Rotten Egg Launcher to activate the lift to reach it. From then on, you can reach this high house. Droop the Trees simply involves breathing on them. Replacing the Candles on the Cake with Fireworks involves picking up fireworks from the White Mountain Civic Center and replacing the candles on the massive cake with them

-Here you will collect blueprints for your next powerup, the Slime Shooter

The Dump

-The place where all Who trash goes to

-This is, by far, one of the trickier areas to navigate. Some of the missions here include: Collect Parts for Computer, Take Food from Birds, Conduct the Stinky Gas to Who Bris' Shack, Shave the Dump Guard, Infest the Mayor's House with Rats, Short Circuit the Power Plant. To do the Collect Parts for the Computer, shoot a red egg (easy to pick up) at robots and pick up the glowing parts left behind. To do the Take Food from Birds, shoot a rotten egg at the bird with the pizza in its mouth and it will drop. The collect it. There are pipes you need to shoot using the Rotten Egg Launcher because this is part of the Conduct Stinky Gas Into Who Bris' Shack mission. There will be pipes you need to enter to access new areas, but they are blocked with electricity. You'll need to use the Jetspring to enter small tunnels and hit buttons, which will show you which tunnel has been deactivated. Run through the tunnel before the timer runs out. Conduct the Stinky Gas into Who Bris' Shack involves shooting pipes in and around the dump to send the gas into the resident Who's shack, behind a wall of steam. There will be a chess area behind a fence. Look at the house to see the arrangement the chess pieces should be in. Once correctly assembled, the garage door will open to reveal sleigh parts

-Short Circuit the Power Plant involves entering the Power Plant and either getting rid of or eluding the pesky security guards. Once inside the plant, shoot buttons to deactivate power lines, which you can use to access new areas. Hit buttons to deactivate generators. Work your way to the top, solving puzzles until you turn off all of the electric to Whoville. Once done, all of the electricity will be out in the Dump

-Infest the Mayor's House with Rats involves using Max to lure rats into a tube that will send them into the Mayor's house. Shave the Dump Guard involves traversing a minefield. Use the Rotten Egg Launcher to shoot down hanging mattresses and use the Jetspring to hop from item to item. Use the Slime Shooter to slime the orbs and try to safely make it across the minefield to the guard's house. Enter the garage to find Scissors and tiptoe into the house and up to the guard. Once that mission is complete, you can just hit the minefield, which will send you back to the beginning

-Here you collect blueprints for the Octopus Gadget, which allows you to climb walls. You will need this to ascend the wall to enter the Power Plant

WhoLake

-A tranquil lake where all Whos go to relax

-This is, by far, the trickiest level in the game. There are many missions and items to collect here. Most of the blueprints you'll be picking up will be for your Marine Mobile, a submarine. Some of the missions here include Flatten Tents. Do the butt drop on the tents to flatten them. Shoot thistles into boy scout uniforms. There will be small brown porcupines running around. Shoot them using the Rotten Egg Launcher and pick up the thistles. Find clothes lines and shoot the thistles at the uniforms. There will be a hut on top of a massive tree, that can only be accessed by swinging your way from the bottom branch to the top. This is where you'll get your Scout Uniform to enter the North Shore. There will be a changing booth nearby that will allow you to change into the costume, to access the North Shore of the lake. Now, once in the North Shore, you will not be able to use any of your weapons, since you're in disguise.

Right outside the Mayor's Villa is a changing booth that will allow you to remove your costume. Inside the North Shore, one of your missions is to Drill Holes in the Boats. You will find a drill in a small cove near the entrance to the North Shore. One of the trickiest missions in this area is Hook the Mayor's Bed to the Motorboat. For this, you'll need a hook from a local pirate, who lives in a cave. He will give you his hook if you bring him five scout scarves. Sneak into the Mayor's Villa, avoiding the carpet and hit the action button when prompted to hook his bed to the motorboat