Photo: Colleen Sturtevant / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
Overview
Mark David Duplass (born December 7, 1976) is an American filmmaker and actor. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996, for which they wrote and directed the films The Puffy Chair (2005), Baghead (2008), Cyrus (2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012) and The Skeleton Twins (2014), as well as the television series Togetherness (2…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Dragon
- Origin
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Jesuit High School
- University
- City College of New York
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Film director — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.