A brush with death will get you thinking about things more deeply than ever. Just ask Mark Ruffalo, who has had rubbed shoulders with death on too many occasions.
The 43-year-old actor (Collateral, Zodiac, Shutter Island, The Kids Are All Right) survived a brain tumor in 2002 that left half of his face temporarily paralyzed and left him deaf in his left ear. His best friend committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 26. Two years later, another best friend, Christopher Thornton, was injured in a climbing accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. And in December 2008, Ruffalo's brother Scott, 39, was shot to death in Beverly Hills in a still unsolved homicide.
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