Mickey Rourke
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 (149 Appearances)
3 Days Rising
A Walking Miracle
Merchandise
National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist
She's Still Here
The Mob Priest
Bring the Law
The Roaring Game
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
Devil's Play
Like Tears in Rain
Faye
Not Another Church Movie
Jade
Murder at Hollow Creek
Chuck Zito: An American Story
Celebrity Big Brother
Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream
Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live
Mad Props
21 Rubies
The Palace
Murder Motel
Hunt Club
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Section 8
WarHunt
The Commando
Man of God
Take Back
Adverse
Bisping
Girl
Belmondo l'influenceur
The Legion
Berlin, I Love You
Night Walk
Losers
The Masked Singer
Tiger
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
Nightmare Cinema
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Weaponized
Blunt Force Trauma
War Pigs
Ashby
A Hitman in London
Hollywood Banker
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Dead in Tombstone
Generation Iron
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
Java Heat
Black November
The Courier
Sunset Strip
I Am Bruce Lee
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Immortals
David Haye versus
Passion Play
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
One Night in Vegas
The Day Before
The Expendables
Iron Man 2
13
42nd Street: River to River
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Within the Ring
WWE WrestleMania XXV
La Traversée du désir
Killshot
The Informers
Hyung
The Wrestler
Projectorparishilton
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
The Graham Norton Show
Stormbreaker
Domino
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
Sin City
Man on Fire
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Masked and Anonymous
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Spun
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
V Graham Norton
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Picture Claire
The Follow
The Hire
They Crawl
The Pledge
Animal Factory
Get Carter
Shades
Out in Fifty
Shergar
Thursday
Thicker Than Blood
Point Blank
Buffalo '66
The Rainmaker
Exit in Red
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
Double Team
Bullet
Fall Time
F.T.W.
Meet Mickey Rourke
The Last Outlaw
Late Show with David Letterman
Raw
GMTV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
White Sands
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Desperate Hours
Wild Orchid
Johnny Handsome
Francesco
Homeboy
A Prayer for the Dying
Barfly
Angel Heart
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Year of the Dragon
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Rumble Fish
Eureka
Diner
Body Heat
Wetten, dass..?
Heaven's Gate
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Fade to Black
Act of Love
City in Fear
1941
Love in the Hamptons
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