Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass Biography

Mark David Duplass (born December 7, 1976) is an American film director, film producer, actor, musician, and screenwriter. He is the brother of director, writer, and actor Jay Duplass. Together, the brothers started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions, and have directed films such as The Puffy Chair (2005), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012). Mark and Jay co-created the HBO television series Togetherness in 2015.

Personal life

Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Cynthia (ne Ernst) and Lawrence Duplass. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Jesuit High School, University of Texas at Austin, and City University of New York-City College. Duplass is of part Cajun ancestry.

Duplass is married to his The League and The Puffy Chair co-star, Katie Aselton. They have two daughters, Molly (born 2012) and Ora Duplass (born December 24, 2007). He was also the lead singer of the rock band Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

Career

Duplass has written, directed, and produced several feature films with his brother Jay Duplass. In 2005, he wrote and produced The Puffy Chair with his brother, in addition to portraying one of the main characters.

The two brothers later wrote, directed, and produced the films Baghead (2008) and Cyrus (2010) together and have a unique style which consists of a great deal of ad-libbing off of the original script, shooting a number of takes, and editing scenes down 15 to 20 times. Their films Jeff, Who Lives at Home and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon were released in 2012. He stars in the FX comedy television series The League, with his wife, Katie Aselton. In 2015, the HBO series Togetherness debuted, which was created by and stars Duplass. That same year, Duplass co-starred with Evan Peters and Olivia Wilde in David Gelb's thriller film The Lazarus Effect.

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as
Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
1996	Connect 5		**
2005	The Puffy Chair	Uncredited
2008	Baghead
2010	Cyrus
2010	Bass Ackwards		*
2012	The Freebie		*
2012	Lovers of Hate		*
2011	Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012	Your Sister's Sister		*
2012	The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
2012	Safety Not Guaranteed		*
2012	Black Rock		*
2014	Creep		**
2014	The One I Love		*
2014	The Skeleton Twins		*
2015	Togetherness		*
2015	The Lazarus Effect		*
2015	6 Years		*
2016	Animals.		*
2016	Blue Jay
2017	Table 19
2017	Creep 2

Independent and short film

Year	Film	Type	Credited as
Year	Film	Type	Director	Producer	Writer
2002	The New Brad	Short film
2003	This Is John	Short film
2004	Scrapple	Short film
2005	The Intervention	Short film
2011	Kevin	Documentary short

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	The New Brad	Brad
2003	Brighter Days	Jonathan
2004	Scrapple	Todd
2005	The Puffy Chair	Josh
2005	The Intervention	Mark
2007	Hannah Takes the Stairs	Mike
2009	Other People's Parties	Doug Rhineau
2009	True Adolescents	Sam
2009	Humpday	Ben
2009-15	The League	Pete Eckhart
2010	Greenberg	Eric Beller
2010	Mars	Charlie Brownsville
2011	Your Sister's Sister	Jack
2012	Safety Not Guaranteed	Kenneth Calloway
2012	Darling Companion	Bryan Alexander
2012	People Like Us	Ted
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Steve
2012-16	The Mindy Project	Brendan Deslaurier
2013	Parkland	Kenneth O'Donnell
2013	Maron	Himself
2014	Tammy	Bobby
2014	Convention	Paul
2014	Creep	Josef
2014	The One I Love	Ethan
2014	Mercy	Uncle Lanning
2015	The Lazarus Effect	Frank Walton
2015-16	Togetherness	Brett Pierson
2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself
2016	Animals.	Non-Earring (voice)
2016	Blue Jay	Jim Henderson
2017	Creep 2	Josef	Post-production
2017	Love Sonia		Post-production
2018	Tully		Post-production

Awards

Best Screenplay for The Puffy Chair at the BendFilm Festival

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