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(148)
Self
2014
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
2002
Self
1981
Self (archive footage)
1993
Self
1992
Self
2003
Self - Guest
2003
Self
2003
Self
1974
Self
2001
Gremlin
2019
Self
2019
Gremlin (archive footage)
2019
Self
1993
Ivan Vanko (archive footage)
2012
Ivan Vanko
2010
Husband
2001
Self - Housemate
2024
Self
2009
Self - Housemate
2024
Self
2019
Self - Housemate
2024
Self - Guest
2008
Tool
2010
Self (archive footage)
2022
Jordan Kalfus
2004
Marv
2014
King Hyperion
2011
Marv
2005
John
1986
Self
2011
Tork
2024
Bruiser Stone
1997
Billy Chambers
2003
Johnny
2022
Harry Angel
1987
Jefferson
2010
The Bookie
1998
Earl Atherton
2022
Jim Olstad
2001
Randy
2008
Teddy Lewis
1981
The Motorcycle Boy
1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Harley Davidson
1991
Stavros
1997
The Cook
2003
Jan the Actress
2000
Nick Ray
1980
Reese
1979
Major Johnson
2022
Cyrus Paice
2000
Self
2010
James Wheeler
1989
Virgil
2023
Ed Mosbey
2005
Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
2008
Graff
1993
Vogel
2015
Stanley White
1985
Peter
2008
Sheriff
2020
Henry Chinaski
1987
Kasarov
1998
Darrius Sayle
2006
Bill Crush
2023
John Gray
1997
Johnny Handsome
1989
Butch 'Bullet' Stein
1996
Edmund
2003
Lucifer
2013
Self - The Narrator (voice)
2018
Michael Bosworth
1990
Ashby Holt
2015
Self
2021
The Projectionist
2018
Charlie
1984
Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
1982
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2012
Paralyzed Man
2021
Self
2012
Major A.J. Redding
2015
Nate
2011
Gorman Lennox
1992
Zorringer
2015
Maxwell
2012
Self
2024
Martin Fallon
1987
Jim
2019
Aurelio D'Amato
1983
Tom Hudson
2012
Corbulo
2020
Patrick / Jack
2021
Professor Clarence Peterson
2016
Frank T. Wells
1994
Rudy Ray
1998
Gary
2019
Tony Pate
1980
Kaden
2021
Self
2012
Johnny Walker
1988
Eddie
2001
Malik
2013
Self
2014
Paul S. Sullivan
1999
Francesco
1989
Self
2009
Joseph Cybulkowski
1980
Richie
1980
Self
2024
Self
2010
Florence
1995
Dino
2023
Husband
2001
Self
2024
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self
2009
Narrator (voice)
2013
Ed Altman
1997
Self
2005
Devil
2024
Tiny Frakes
2001
Ruslan Petrovic
2024
Self
2009
Frank Donovan
2018
Reverend Beau Jackson
2025
Self
2013
John Rideout
1980
Self
2010
Gavin O'Rourke
1999
Jack
Jared McKendry
Gargos
Father Frank Larkin
1998
Jack Bracken
1999
Father Scott
Jack
2008
Self
2025
Self
1994
Self
2020
Mickey Mandovanis
2023
Swede
1976
Self
2009
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