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Sir Mark Rylance is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He is known for his roles on stage and screen having received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and three Tony Awards.

Rylance’s film appearances include Prospero’s Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), Intimacy (2001), and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). He attracted attention for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies (2015), for which he won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently collaborated with Spielberg in the title role of The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children’s book by Roald Dahl; and as James Halliday in Ready Player One (2018), based on the novel of the same name. He also appeared in Christopher Nolan’s World War II drama Dunkirk (2017) and Aaron Sorkin’s Vietnam War court drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

On television, Rylance won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as David Kelly in the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Government Inspector and for playing Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two mini-series Wolf Hall he also received Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.

Today we talk to Mark Rylance about the film THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN where he plays the title character Maurice Flintcroft. The incredible true story of a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.