Mark Ruffalo has called his religious upbringing “eclectic.” He believes that having grown up in a home with such a wide range of religious beliefs has helped him realize that no religion is better than another. He holds that each person’s faith and beliefs are personal to them and that no one should be held to a standard of spirituality.
Since Mark Ruffalo attended a Catholic school as a child but drifted away from the faith as an adult, he is thought to be a lapsed Catholic. Ruffalo had a diverse religious upbringing because his grandmother was a born-again Christian, and his Father converted to the Bahá Faith.
On November 22, 1967, Mark Alan Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Washington. Frank Ruffalo’s Father was an Italian-American painter who worked in the building trade. His mother, Marie Rose Hébert, was a stylist and hairdresser of Italian and French Canadian descent.
Ruffalo had three siblings—a younger brother named Scott and two sisters named Tania and Nicole. Ruffalo’s family was predominantly Italian, so there were many Catholic voices in his early life, among other religious influences.
