Mark Ruffalo recalls playing an NYPD cop on UPN

Variety

Ruffalo starred in the one-season UPN crime drama The Beat in the 1999-2000 season from Homicide: Life on the Street's Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, playing hotheaded ladies-man New York City beat cop Zane Marinelli. “Tom had seen me in plays and was a fan. He got me for what I was — a theater brat,” Ruffalo tells Variety. “It was an amazing opportunity to live in New York and shoot a show about cops and real blue-collar people.”