Mickey Rourke

Born: 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.


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Released: 1989-03-22

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as Frank T. Wells
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as Himself
Released: 2009-04-05

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as Johnny Walker
Released: 1988-08-24

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as Devil
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as Frank Donovan
Released: 2018-11-30

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as Eddie
Released: 2001-09-10

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Released: 2001-05-24

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as Tiny Frakes
Released: 2001-02-02

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as Tony Pate
Released: 1980-03-30

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as Self
Released: 2021-02-06

After a tumultuous decade-long career filled with injuries and missed opportunities, 38-year-old...

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as Florence
Released: 1995-05-13

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as Self
Released: 2009-03-16

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as Self
Released: 2005-05-24

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as uncredited
Released: 2023-04-06

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as Tork
Released: 2024-02-16

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Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

as Self
Released: 2010-11-14

Sylvester Stallone's 90-minute video diary, covering the making of "The Expendables".

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as Self
Released: 2014-10-02

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Out in Fifty

as Jack Bracken
Released: 1999-06-22

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as Joseph Cybulkowski
Released: 1980-09-24

A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left...

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as Self
Released: 2020-11-10

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as Self
Released: 2009-11-15

42nd STREET: RIVER TO RIVER is an impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most...

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Exit in Red

as Ed Altman
Released: 1997-08-12

Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit....

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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

as John Rideout
Released: 1980-10-30

Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the...

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Shades

as Paul S. Sullivan
Released: 1999-10-19

In this film within a film, a Belgian serial killer escapes prison and finds that a filmmaker is...

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Thicker Than Blood

as Father Frank Larkin
Released: 1998-05-31

Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's...

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Mad Props

as Self
Released: 2024-02-26

A handsome nerd journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, set to prove...

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Murder at Hollow Creek

as Ruslan Petrovic
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A disbarred lawyer and his eccentric brother attempt to pull off the robbery of a lifetime but...

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One Night in Vegas

as Self
Released: 2010-09-07

On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take...

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as Gavin O'Rourke
Released: 1999-06-01

Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time,...

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Love in the Hamptons

as Swede
Released: 1976-10-08

Mickey Rourke stars in his first film role as a young waiter in the Hamptons, who finds love...

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as uncredited
Released: 1994-01-01

A Brett Ratner Film presented by Maysles Films, Inc.

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as Mickey Mandovanis
Released: 2023-11-03

When a political turmoil brings a Romanian prosecutor into the spotlight, she is offered the...

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as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as uncredited
First aired: 2014-02-17

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent...

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The Graham Norton Show

as Self
First aired: 2007-02-22

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on...

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WWE Raw

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1993-01-11

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-05-25

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that...

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as Gremlin
First aired: 2019-01-02

Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from...

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The Masked Singer

as Self
First aired: 2019-01-02

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The Masked Singer

as Gremlin (archive footage)
First aired: 2019-01-02

Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from...

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Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-01-26

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as Self
First aired: 2003-09-08

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as Self
First aired: 1981-02-14

A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...

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as Self
First aired: 1993-01-01

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as Self
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as Self
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as Self
First aired: 2001-11-02

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as uncredited
First aired: 2008-05-17

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as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2022-12-21

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as Husband
First aired: 2001-04-26

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as uncredited
First aired: 2010-09-01

In this eight-part documentary series, Prigent chronicles the final 36 hours prior to crucial...

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as Self
First aired: 2019-03-01

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