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Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005), and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012). Ruffalo earned a record-tying four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sperm donor in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher (2014), Michael Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and a debauched lawyer in Poor Things (2023). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for playing a gay activist in the television drama film The Normal Heart (2015), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his dual role as identical twins in the miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020).
Eons ago, at the beginning of the universe, the natives of the planet Xandar were among the first beings to come into existence; a race of immortal, immensely powerful aliens who seek to maintain order and balance for all species. The Nova Force, a series of bioelectric way-lines criss-crossing the universe, was a source of great disorder and the Xandarians harnessed its power to create the Force Batteries. The entities of the Nova Force, the energies made sentient, were trapped within as the Batteries were scattered to the farthest reaches of the universe, , whom the Xandarians used to create the Nova Force the weapons of their peace-keepers, the Nova Corps. Now known as the Elders Of The Universe, the remaining Xandarians recruited the living planet Sakaar to distribute their Force Gear across the endless sectors of space to living beings with strong-enough connections to the Nova Force, so they can be recruited into the Nova Corps.
