Mickey Rourke
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Mickey Rourke

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Biography

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.

Films Featuring Mickey Rourke

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

20146.4

Sin City

20057.5

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

Iron Man 2

20106.9

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

20036.3

Angel Heart

19877.1

Nine 1/2 Weeks

19866.1

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Get Carter

20005.2

Heaven's Gate

19806.7

Barfly

19876.9

Wild Orchid

19895.3

The Last Outlaw

19935.4

Year of the Dragon

19856.8

The Pledge

20016.6

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Desperate Hours

19905.4

The Rainmaker

19977.0

Spun

20036.6

The Pope of Greenwich Village

19846.3

The Wrestler

20087.5

Buffalo '66

19987.1

Man on Fire

20047.5

Homeboy

19885.0

F.T.W.

19944.7

Animal Factory

20006.3

Thursday

19986.9

The Expendables

20106.3

Stormbreaker

20065.2

Double Team

19975.3

A Prayer for the Dying

19875.9

Domino

20055.9

Fade to Black

19805.6

Picture Claire

20015.6

Fall Time

19954.8

Diner

19826.8

Body Heat

19817.0

Bullet

19966.2

The Follow

20016.9

Killshot

20085.8

Eureka

19835.3

Immortals

20116.1

13

20105.8

Passion Play

20114.7

The Informers

20084.7

Section 8

20226.1

National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist

Another 9 1/2 Weeks

19974.5

Shades

19996.0

White Sands

19925.9

Exit in Red

19974.0

Point Blank

19984.5

I Am Bruce Lee

20127.6

City in Fear

19805.7

Francesco

19896.6

Out in Fifty

19993.7

The Courier

20124.8

Murder Motel

20235.3

Dead in Tombstone

20135.0

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

20137.1

Within the Ring

20096.0

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

20108.0

The Palace

20235.4

They Crawl

20014.5

Meet Mickey Rourke

19943.0

Generation Iron

20136.7

Java Heat

20135.2

Murder at Hollow Creek

20242.0

Berlin, I Love You

20194.8

Bisping

20216.0

Hollywood Banker

20146.4

Black November

20125.0

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

WWE WrestleMania XXV

20097.8

A Hitman in London

20154.2

Ashby

20156.2

Not Another Church Movie

20243.3

21 Rubies

202310.0

Thicker Than Blood

19987.1

Mad Props

20246.0

War Pigs

20154.8

Hunt Club

20234.3

Blunt Force Trauma

20155.0

Love in the Hamptons

1976

Bring the Law

20266.8

Devil's Play

20255.5

Faye

20246.4

Weaponized

20163.7

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

19805.9

Hyung

Hyung

2008

1941

19795.8

Act of Love

19806.0

Shergar

19996.4

Tiger

20186.4

Sunset Strip

20127.3

Nightmare Cinema

20185.8

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Merchandise

Merchandise

The Mob Priest

The Mob Priest

One Night in Vegas

20106.3

Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers

20186.2

Night Walk

20194.6

Adverse

20214.8

Take Back

20215.9

The Legion

20206.2

WarHunt

20225.0

Girl

20206.0

Man of God

20217.0

The Commando

20225.7

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

20058.0

42nd Street: River to River

20092.0

Belmondo l'influenceur

20208.4

She's Still Here

She's Still Here

Jade

20244.9

The Roaring Game

2026

Chuck Zito: An American Story

20242.0

Like Tears in Rain

20247.7

A Walking Miracle

A Walking Miracle

Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

20258.0

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

3 Days Rising

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

20058.0

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

2007

Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man

20225.0