Name
Mickey Rourke
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1952-09-16 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Schenectady, New York, USA
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.
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- 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Marv
- 2005 Sin City as Marv
- 1983 Rumble Fish as The Motorcycle Boy
- 1989 Johnny Handsome as Johnny Handsome
- 2010 Iron Man 2 as Ivan Vanko
- 2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico as Billy Chambers
- 1987 Angel Heart as Harry Angel
- 1986 Nine 1/2 Weeks as John
- 1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson
- 2000 Get Carter as Cyrus Paice
- 1980 Heaven's Gate as Nick Ray
- 1987 Barfly as Henry Chinaski
- 1989 Wild Orchid as James Wheeler
- 1993 The Last Outlaw as Graff
- 1985 Year of the Dragon as Stanley White
- 2001 The Pledge as Jim Olstad
- 2003 Masked and Anonymous as Edmund
- 1990 Desperate Hours as Michael Bosworth
- 1997 The Rainmaker as Bruiser Stone
- 2003 Spun as The Cook
- 1984 The Pope of Greenwich Village as Charlie
- 2008 The Wrestler as Randy
- 1998 Buffalo '66 as The Bookie
- 2004 Man on Fire as Jordan Kalfus
- 1988 Homeboy as Johnny Walker
- 1994 F.T.W. as Frank T. Wells
- 2000 Animal Factory as Jan the Actress
- 1998 Thursday as Kasarov
- 2010 The Expendables as Tool
- 2006 Stormbreaker as Darrius Sayle
- 1997 Double Team as Stavros
- 1987 A Prayer for the Dying as Martin Fallon
- 2005 Domino as Ed Mosbey
- 1980 Fade to Black as Richie
- 2001 Picture Claire as Eddie
- 1995 Fall Time as Florence
- 1982 Diner as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
- 1981 Body Heat as Teddy Lewis
- 1996 Bullet as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
- 2001 The Follow as Husband
- 2008 Killshot as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
- 1983 Eureka as Aurelio D'Amato
- 2011 Immortals as King Hyperion
- 2010 13 as Jefferson
- 2011 Passion Play as Nate
- 2008 The Informers as Peter
- 2022 Section 8 as Earl Atherton
- Soon National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist
- 1997 Another 9 1/2 Weeks as John Gray
- 1999 Shades as Paul S. Sullivan
- 1992 White Sands as Gorman Lennox
- 1997 Exit in Red as Ed Altman
- 1998 Point Blank as Rudy Ray
- 2012 I Am Bruce Lee as Self
- 1980 City in Fear as Tony Pate
- 1989 Francesco as Francesco
- 1999 Out in Fifty as Jack Bracken
- 2012 The Courier as Maxwell
- 2023 Murder Motel as Dino
- 2013 Dead in Tombstone as Lucifer
- 2013 The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini as Self
- 2009 Within the Ring as Self
- 2010 Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' as Self
- 2023 The Palace as Bill Crush
- 2001 They Crawl as Tiny Frakes
- 1994 Meet Mickey Rourke as Self
- 2013 Generation Iron as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Java Heat as Malik
- 2024 Murder at Hollow Creek as Ruslan Petrovic
- 2019 Berlin, I Love You as Jim
- 2021 Bisping as Self
- 2014 Hollywood Banker as Self
- 2012 Black November as Tom Hudson
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2009 WWE WrestleMania XXV as Self
- 2015 A Hitman in London as Vogel
- 2015 Ashby as Ashby Holt
- 2024 Not Another Church Movie as Devil
- 2023 21 Rubies as Mickey Mandovanis
- 1998 Thicker Than Blood as Father Frank Larkin
- 2024 Mad Props as Self
- 2015 War Pigs as Major A.J. Redding
- 2023 Hunt Club as Virgil
- 2015 Blunt Force Trauma as Zorringer
- 1976 Love in the Hamptons as Swede
- 2026 Bring the Law as Gargos
- 2025 Devil's Play as Reverend Beau Jackson
- 2024 Faye as Self
- 2016 Weaponized as Professor Clarence Peterson
- 1980 Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as John Rideout
- 2008 Hyung as Jack
- 1979 1941 as Reese
- 1980 Act of Love as Joseph Cybulkowski
- 1999 Shergar as Gavin O'Rourke
- 2018 Tiger as Frank Donovan
- 2012 Sunset Strip as Self
- 2018 Nightmare Cinema as The Projectionist
- 2009 La Traversée du désir as Self
- Soon Merchandise as Patrick
- Soon The Mob Priest as Jared McKendry
- 2010 One Night in Vegas as Self
- 2018 Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers as Self - The Narrator (voice)
- 2019 Night Walk as Gary
- 2021 Adverse as Kaden
- 2021 Take Back as Patrick / Jack
- 2020 The Legion as Corbulo
- 2022 WarHunt as Major Johnson
- 2020 Girl as Sheriff
- 2021 Man of God as Paralyzed Man
- 2022 The Commando as Johnny
- 2005 Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
- 2009 42nd Street: River to River as Self
- 2020 Belmondo l'influenceur as Self
- Soon She's Still Here as Father Scott
- 2024 Jade as Tork
- 2026 The Roaring Game as The Plow King
- 2024 Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self
- 2024 Like Tears in Rain as Self
- Soon A Walking Miracle as Jack
- 2025 Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks as Self
- 2018 Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
- 2003 Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
- Soon 3 Days Rising as Willy T
- 2005 On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
- 2022 Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Alan Carr: Chatty Man ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2002 V Graham Norton ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 The Masked Singer ( 1 episode ) as Gremlin
- 2019 The Masked Singer ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 The Masked Singer ( 2 episodes ) as Gremlin (archive footage)
- 1993 GMTV ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1981 Wetten, dass..? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Losers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Projectorparishilton ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2011 David Haye versus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2001 The Hire ( 1 episode ) as Husband
- 1993 Raw ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Il était une fois Champs-Élysées ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2010 The Day Before ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream ( 18 episodes ) as Self - Housemate
- 2024 Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live ( 17 episodes ) as Self - Housemate
- 2024 Celebrity Big Brother ( 17 episodes ) as Self - Housemate
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1985 WWE Pay Per View ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Film '72 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 The Word ( 1 episode )
