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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Acting · Production · Writing · Crew

Born July 6, 1946, New York City, New York, USA

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). At the height of his career, Stallone was known for his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed's son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. He also starred in the sequel Creed II (2018) and portrayed Stakar Ogord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Regarded as an icon of action cinema, Stallone is credited with helping redefine the Hollywood action hero. He has occasionally ventured from the action genre, with mixed results. He starred in the comedies Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), both of which had modest success. He also starred in the 1997 drama Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed his sculpted physique and gained weight for his role as a powerless sheriff. In television, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King (2022-present). In addition to his film work, Stallone is a noted art collector and painter and has written books on fitness.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (104)
  • Hulk Hogan: Real American — Self
  • 2026Taming the Beast — Self
  • 2026Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool — Self (archive footage)
  • 2025Dolph: Unbreakable — Self
  • 2025TMZ Presents: The Real Hulk Hogan — Self
  • 2025Untold: The Liver King — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons — Self
  • 2024Chuck Zito: An American Story — Self
  • 2024Undisputed — Self
  • Arnold — Self
  • Iconic America — Self
  • 2023Jean-Claude Van Damme: Karate King — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Self - 'Stakar Ogord'
  • The Family Stallone — Self
  • 2023The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
  • Sherri — Self - Guest
  • Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue — Self
  • 2021Jackie Chan: Building an Icon — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Stallone: Frank, That Is — Self
  • 2020Die Sylvester Stallone Story — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019I Am Durán — Self
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
  • 2017John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
  • The Director's Chair — Self
  • 2014The Making of The Expendables 3 — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • 2013Milius — Self
  • 2013Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon — Self
  • 2012Gods of War: Assembling Earth's Mightiest Anti-Heroes — Self
  • 2011The Real Rocky — Self
  • 2011The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance — Self
  • 2010From the Ashes: Post-Production and Release of 'The Expendables' — Self
  • 2010Rambo: To Hell and Back - Director's Production Diary — Self
  • 30 for 30 — Self, Self (archive footage)
  • Live from Studio Five — Self
  • 2008Bigger Stronger Faster* — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Ecki's World — Self
  • 2007Skill vs. Will: The Making of 'Rocky Balboa' — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2006Ali's Dozen — Self
  • 2006Tribute To Burgess Meredith — Self
  • Made in Hollywood — Self
  • WWE Hall of Fame — Self
  • 2004Cop Land: The Making of an Urban Western — Himself
  • The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • 2003Celebrity Naked Ambition — Self (archive footage)
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
  • 2002"STARdate" with Ralf Moeller! — Self
  • 2002Afganistan: Land in Crisis — Self
  • 2002Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later — Self
  • 2002Guts and Glory — Self
  • 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002Iron and Beyond — Self - Actor & Director
  • Live from E! — Self - After Party Guest
  • Pet Star — Self - Judge
  • 2002Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' — Self
  • 2002We Get to Win This Time — Self
  • Beckmann — Self
  • The Early Show — Self
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
  • 1999The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 2 — Self - Special Guest Star
  • 1999Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity — Self
  • 1998Junket Whore — Self
  • The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
  • Taff — self
  • The View — Self
  • 1996A Century of Science Fiction — Self
  • 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • GMTV — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • 1993Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger — Self
  • 1991Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide — Self
  • 1991Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin — Self - Guest
  • 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
  • Stern TV — Self
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
  • Sacrée soirée — Self
  • 1986Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick — Self
  • 1986The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years — Self (archive footage)
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • 1982The Making of 'First Blood' — Self
  • Entertainment Tonight — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
  • Ciné regards — Self
  • Auf los geht's los — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
  • Film '72 — Self
  • The Merv Griffin Show — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Jackie Chan: Down to Earth — Self
  • Make-Up Man: The Michael Westmore Documentary — Self
  • The Original Action Hero — Self
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