Mickey Rourke
Acting
🎂 1952-09-16
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.
Cast credits(147)
Self (archive footage)
1993
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
2014
Ivan Vanko
2010
Self
2003
Self
1992
Self
1981
Self
2003
Self - Guest
2003
Gremlin
2019
Self
2019
Gremlin (archive footage)
2019
Tool
2010
Marv
2014
Self
1974
Jordan Kalfus
2004
Self
2002
Marv
2005
King Hyperion
2011
John
1986
Billy Chambers
2003
Self - Guest
2008
Self
1993
Bruiser Stone
1997
Teddy Lewis
1981
Self
2001
Jim Olstad
2001
Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
2008
Cyrus Paice
2000
Self (archive footage)
2022
Self
2009
Harry Angel
1987
James Wheeler
1989
Harley Davidson
1991
Ed Mosbey
2005
Husband
2001
Jefferson
2010
Darrius Sayle
2006
Reese
1979
The Bookie
1998
Randy
2008
Nick Ray
1980
Tork
2024
Johnny Handsome
1989
The Cook
2003
Peter
2008
Johnny
2022
Jan the Actress
2000
Jim
2019
Stavros
1997
Bill Crush
2023
Sheriff
2020
Gorman Lennox
1992
Maxwell
2012
Self - The Narrator (voice)
2018
John Gray
1997
Rudy Ray
1998
Major Johnson
2022
Self
2024
Virgil
2023
Edmund
2003
Major A.J. Redding
2015
Self
2005
Zorringer
2015
Henry Chinaski
1987
Stanley White
1985
The Motorcycle Boy
1983
(archive footage)
2012
Self
2009
Earl Atherton
2022
Francesco
1989
Professor Clarence Peterson
2016
Kasarov
1998
Nate
2011
Martin Fallon
1987
Vogel
2015
Butch 'Bullet' Stein
1996
Self
2010
Michael Bosworth
1990
Ashby Holt
2015
Kaden
2021
Dino
2023
John Rideout
1980
Self - Housemate
2024
The Projectionist
2018
Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
1982
Self (archive footage)
2024
Tom Hudson
2012
Corbulo
2020
Self
2025
Self - Housemate
2024
Lucifer
2013
Husband
2001
Paul S. Sullivan
1999
Self
2012
Charlie
1984
Self
2009
Ed Altman
1997
Reverend Beau Jackson
2025
Eddie
2001
Self
2010
Self
2012
Devil
2024
Florence
1995
Self
2009
Paralyzed Man
2021
Mickey Mandovanis
2023
Patrick / Jack
2021
Ruslan Petrovic
2024
Tiny Frakes
2001
Father Frank Larkin
1998
Father Scott
Self
2009
Johnny Walker
1988
Gavin O'Rourke
1999
Self
2020
Graff
1993
Jared McKendry
Self - Housemate
2024
Aurelio D'Amato
1983
Richie
1980
Self
2019
Tony Pate
1980
Self
2021
Frank T. Wells
1994
Gary
2019
Narrator (voice)
2013
Malik
2013
Frank Donovan
2018
Joseph Cybulkowski
1980
Self
2010
Gargos
Self
2014
Jack Bracken
1999
Self
2024
Self
1994
Self
2011
Self
2024
Swede
1976
Jack
Self
2013
Jack
2008
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