Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke
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 cumulated 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.
Known For
Actor
as Gargos
as Reverend Beau Jackson
as Jared McKendry
as Patrick
as Father Scott
as Self
as Self
as Devil
as Ruslan Petrovic
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Tork
as Mickey Mandovanis
as Bill Crush
as Dino
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Virgil
as Earl Atherton
as Major Johnson
as Johnny
as Self (archive footage)
as Paralyzed Man
as Patrick / Jack
as Kaden
as Self
as Sheriff
as Self
as Corbulo
as Jim
as Gary
as Self
as Gremlin
as Self
as Gremlin (archive footage)
as Frank Donovan
as Self - The Narrator (voice)
as The Projectionist
as Professor Clarence Peterson
as Zorringer
as Major A.J. Redding
as Ashby Holt
as Vogel
as Self
as Marv
as Self
as Lucifer
as Narrator (voice)
as Malik
as Tom Hudson
as Maxwell
as Self
as Self
as (archive footage)
as King Hyperion
as Nate
as Self
as Self
as Tool
as Ivan Vanko
as Jefferson
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
as Peter
as Jack
as Randy
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Darrius Sayle
as Ed Mosbey
as Marv
as Jordan Kalfus
as Billy Chambers
as Edmund
as The Cook
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Eddie
as Husband
as Tiny Frakes
as Jim Olstad
as Self
as Husband
as Jan the Actress
as Cyrus Paice
as Paul S. Sullivan
as Jack Bracken
as Gavin O'Rourke
as Kasarov
as Father Frank Larkin
as Rudy Ray
as The Bookie
as Bruiser Stone
as Ed Altman
as John Gray
as Stavros
as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
as Florence
as Frank T. Wells
as Self
as Graff
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Gorman Lennox
as Self
as Harley Davidson
as Michael Bosworth
as James Wheeler
as Johnny Handsome
as Francesco
as Johnny Walker
as Martin Fallon
as Henry Chinaski
as Harry Angel
as John
as Stanley White
as Charlie
as The Motorcycle Boy
as Aurelio D'Amato
as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
as Teddy Lewis
as Self
as Nick Ray
as John Rideout
as Richie
as Joseph Cybulkowski
as Tony Pate
as Reese
as Swede
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Executive Producer
Crew
as Thanks
Sound
as Music Supervisor