Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass is known as an American film director, writer, and actor. He is most famous for his role as Pete Eckhart in the FX comedy, The League.

Background and Age

Mark David Duplass was born on December 7, 1976 in New Orleans, LA. He was brought up in a Catholic family. His father is Lawrence Duplass and Cynthia Ernst is his mom. His sibling Jay Duplass is likewise in the film business and they cooperate as a team. He studied at Jesuit High School as a youngster and went to the University of Texas at Austin and City University of New York City College. Mark studied Film Arts and hold a degree in the field.

Marriage, Wife, and Kids

Mark Duplass is a happily married man. He is married to Katie Aselton, his co-star from the FX comedy series The League and The Puffy Chair. The couple got married on August 26, 2006. They have two girls named Molly and Ora.

Career as a Director and Actor

Mark Duplass alongside his sibling Jay Duplass, has directed, produced, wrote and represented numerous movies. Together the siblings established film production organization named Duplass Brothers Productions. He started his career as a director from the motion picture Baghead (2008). He at that point made a few different movies like Cyrus(2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012), and The Puffy Chair (2012). The Puffy Chair co-composed by Mark Duplass won the Best Screenplay Awards at the Bend Film Festival.

He started acting in 2002 as Brad in a short film called The New Brad. His career as an actor additionally involves a considerable amount of TV series and films. A few of his credits include Brighter Days, Scrapple, Mars, The Intervention, and Convention. He got his biggest rise to fame when he starred in The League with his significant other Katie Aselton which is a comedy series on the FX network. The show was popular because it was about a fantasy football league. His character Pete was known as the smart one in the group. Each episode would involve ways that the members of the fantasy league would try to outdo each other in hopes of winning their league.

In 2015, Mark alongside Steve Zissis and his sibling Jay made a TV series for HBO called Togetherness. The show got nominated for the Fifth Critics Choice Television Awards the same year. In December 2019, the film Bombshell was released in theaters. Mark stars in the film as Doug Brunt.