Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass represents, to me, the do-it-yourself ethos at its most appealing. With his brother Jay he built Duplass Brothers Productions and helped define mumblecore, that scrappy, low-budget, talk-heavy style where the drama lives in awkward silences and real faces. He acts, directs, writes, and produces, yet he keeps choosing small human stories over spectacle, and I love that restraint. There is a New Orleans warmth to his work, an unforced intimacy that bigger budgets often sand away. Duplass keeps proving you do not need money to make something that lingers, and that quiet stubbornness is exactly why I keep paying attention.

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Name (English)

Mark Duplass

Name (Japanese)

マーク・デュプラス

Reading

まーく・でゅぷらす

Born

December 7, 1976 (age 49)

Origin

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

High school

Jesuit High School

University

City College of New York

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Duplass
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9
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Tags

• Louisiana
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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