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Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke

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Born September 16, 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish (1983), Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Captain Stanley White in Year of the Dragon and John Gray in 9½ Weeks (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987). In 1991, following a string of critical and commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as a boxer in his early years—left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. After retiring from boxing in 1994, Rourke returned to acting and had supporting roles in several films such as The Rainmaker (1997), Buffalo '66 (1998), Animal Factory, Get Carter (both 2000), The Pledge (2001), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005). In 2005, Rourke made a comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards, and the Online Film Critics Society. This comeback culminated in his portraying aging wrestler Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the sports drama film The Wrestler (2008). For the role, Rourke won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. After this, Rourke appeared in several commercially successful films; Iron Man 2, The Expendables (both 2010) and Immortals (2011), before primarily going on to work in independent and direct-to-video productions.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (48)
  • 2025Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks — Self
  • Celebrity Big Brother — Self - Housemate
  • Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live — Self - Housemate
  • Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream — Self - Housemate
  • 2024Chuck Zito: An American Story — Self
  • 2024Faye — Self
  • 2024Like Tears in Rain — Self
  • 2024Mad Props — Self
  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Bisping — Self
  • 2021kid 90 — Self
  • 2020Belmondo l'influenceur — Self
  • Losers — Self
  • 2018Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers — Self - The Narrator (voice)
  • 2014Hollywood Banker — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • 2013The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini — Self
  • 2012I Am Bruce Lee — Self
  • 2012Sunset Strip — Self
  • David Haye versus — Self
  • 2010Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' — Self
  • 2010One Night in Vegas — Self
  • The Day Before — Self
  • 2010Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of 'Iron Man 2' — Self
  • 200942nd Street: River to River — Self
  • Alan Carr: Chatty Man — Self
  • 2009La Traversée du désir — Self
  • 2009WWE WrestleMania XXV — Self
  • 2009Within the Ring — Self
  • Projectorparishilton — Self - Guest
  • 2007Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2005On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' — Self (archive footage)
  • 2005Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' — Self
  • 2003Celebrity Naked Ambition — Self (archive footage)
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • V Graham Norton — Self
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
  • 1994Meet Mickey Rourke — Self
  • GMTV — Self
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • Raw — Self (archive footage)
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • Film '72 — Self
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