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ACTOR’S BROTHER IS SHOT

The brother of actor Mark Ruffalo was shot and critically wounded at his Beverly Hills home in an execution-style attack, sources told The Post yesterday.

Scott Ruffalo, 39, has been clinging to life in intensive care since he was found with a gunshot wound to the back of his head on Monday, the sources said.

Beverly Hills police confirmed that a man was shot in the 400 block of North Palm Drive at 1:30 a.m. on Monday but declined to say more about the shooting.

Sources said Scott Ruffalo was shot at his condo, in his middle-class neighborhood of low-rise apartment buildings.

A spokeswoman for Mark Ruffalo said the “13 Going On 30” actor is with his hairdresser brother at a Los Angeles-area hospital.

“I don’t have any further comment because there is an ongoing police investigation,” said Jessica Kolstad.

In addition to his long list of screen credits, Mark Ruffalo, 41, is also known for surviving a brain tumor that was diagnosed in 2002. The tumor was found to be benign and removed.

Mark and Scott Ruffalo were raised in Kenosha, Wis., before moving to the West Coast.

Scott Ruffalo’s sisters Tania and Nicole, wife Luzelena, and mom Maria are also hairdressers.

“My mom was a hairstylist. My dad [Frank Ruffalo] was a construction painter,” Mark Ruffalo told Parade magazine in 2004, explaining the family’s hard-knock, Midwestern upbringing.

“He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high-school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. I was very lonely for him.”

Scott Ruffalo once said their family’s blue-collar background made his movie-star brother unpretentious about his own fame.

In a 2003 interview, Scott Ruffalo laughed at his brother’s attachment to a 1974 Volkswagen camper.

“He loves that thing,” Scott said.

“There’s almost this essence of obliviousness going on around him.”

Frank and Maria Ruffalo divorced shortly after they moved from Kenosha to San Diego.

The dad moved back to Kenosha while mother Maria remained in San Diego, according to property records.

Scott Ruffalo was first issued his cosmetology license on Jan. 17, 1991, and it was set to expire in eight weeks, on Jan. 31, according to California Department of Consumer Affairs records.

Wife Luzelena Ruffalo picked up her license on April 27, 1990, and it’ll run until April 30, 2010.

Mom Maria Rose Ruffalo had a license – from May 4, 1990, until it expired on May 31, 2006.

None of those three licensed cosmetologists had any record of complaints or disciplinary actions.

Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese and Simon Eskew

david.li@nypost.com