Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 16, 1952
Place of Birth:
Schenectady, New York, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Devil's Play | Reverend Beau Jackson |
| 2024 | Murder at Hollow Creek | Ruslan Petrovic |
| 2024 | Not Another Church Movie | Devil |
| 2024 | Mad Props | Self |
| 2024 | Faye | Self |
| 2024 | Jade | Tork |
| 2024 | Chuck Zito: An American Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Like Tears in Rain | Self |
| 2023 | Murder Motel | Dino |
| 2023 | The Palace | Bill Crush |
| 2023 | Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2023 | 21 Rubies | Mickey Mandovanis |
| 2023 | Hunt Club | Virgil |
| 2022 | Section 8 | Earl Atherton |
| 2022 | WarHunt | Major Johnson |
| 2022 | The Commando | Johnny |
| 2021 | Bisping | Self |
| 2021 | Adverse | Kaden |
| 2021 | Take Back | Patrick / Jack |
| 2021 | Man of God | Paralyzed Man |
| 2020 | The Legion | Corbulo |
| 2020 | Girl | Sheriff |
| 2020 | Belmondo l'influenceur | Self |
| 2019 | Berlin, I Love You | Jim |
| 2019 | Night Walk | Gary |
| 2018 | Tiger | Frank Donovan |
| 2018 | Nightmare Cinema | The Projectionist |
| 2018 | Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers | Self - The Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Weaponized | Professor Clarence Peterson |
| 2015 | A Hitman in London | Vogel |
| 2015 | Ashby | Ashby Holt |
| 2015 | War Pigs | Major A.J. Redding |
| 2015 | Blunt Force Trauma | Zorringer |
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Marv |
| 2014 | Hollywood Banker | Self |
| 2013 | Dead in Tombstone | Lucifer |
| 2013 | The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini | Self |
| 2013 | Generation Iron | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Java Heat | Malik |
| 2012 | I Am Bruce Lee | Self |
| 2012 | The Courier | Maxwell |
| 2012 | Black November | Tom Hudson |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Sunset Strip | Self |
| 2011 | Immortals | King Hyperion |
| 2011 | Passion Play | Nate |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Ivan Vanko |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Tool |
| 2010 | 13 | Jefferson |
| 2010 | Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' | Self |
| 2010 | One Night in Vegas | Self |
| 2009 | Within the Ring | Self |
| 2009 | WWE WrestleMania XXV | Self |
| 2009 | La Traversée du désir | Self |
| 2009 | 42nd Street: River to River | Self |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Randy |
| 2008 | Killshot | Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas |
| 2008 | The Informers | Peter |
| 2008 | Hyung | Jack |
| 2006 | Stormbreaker | Darrius Sayle |
| 2005 | Sin City | Marv |
| 2005 | Domino | Ed Mosbey |
| 2005 | Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' | Self |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Jordan Kalfus |
| 2003 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Billy Chambers |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Edmund |
| 2003 | Spun | The Cook |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Jim Olstad |
| 2001 | Picture Claire | Eddie |
| 2001 | The Follow | Husband |
| 2001 | They Crawl | Tiny Frakes |
| 2000 | Get Carter | Cyrus Paice |
| 2000 | Animal Factory | Jan the Actress |
| 1999 | Shades | Paul S. Sullivan |
| 1999 | Out in Fifty | Jack Bracken |
| 1999 | Shergar | Gavin O'Rourke |
| 1998 | Buffalo '66 | The Bookie |
| 1998 | Thursday | Kasarov |
| 1998 | Point Blank | Rudy Ray |
| 1998 | Thicker Than Blood | Father Frank Larkin |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Bruiser Stone |
| 1997 | Double Team | Stavros |
| 1997 | Another 9 1/2 Weeks | John Gray |
| 1997 | Exit in Red | Ed Altman |
| 1996 | Bullet | Butch 'Bullet' Stein |
| 1995 | Fall Time | Florence |
| 1994 | F.T.W. | Frank T. Wells |
| 1994 | Meet Mickey Rourke | Self |
| 1993 | The Last Outlaw | Graff |
| 1992 | White Sands | Gorman Lennox |
| 1991 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | Harley Davidson |
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Michael Bosworth |
| 1989 | Johnny Handsome | Johnny Handsome |
| 1989 | Wild Orchid | James Wheeler |
| 1989 | Francesco | Francesco |
| 1988 | Homeboy | Johnny Walker |
| 1987 | Angel Heart | Harry Angel |
| 1987 | Barfly | Henry Chinaski |
| 1987 | A Prayer for the Dying | Martin Fallon |
| 1986 | Nine 1/2 Weeks | John |
| 1985 | Year of the Dragon | Stanley White |
| 1984 | The Pope of Greenwich Village | Charlie |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | The Motorcycle Boy |
| 1983 | Eureka | Aurelio D'Amato |
| 1982 | Diner | Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell |
| 1981 | Body Heat | Teddy Lewis |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | Nick Ray |
| 1980 | Fade to Black | Richie |
| 1980 | City in Fear | Tony Pate |
| 1980 | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | John Rideout |
| 1980 | Act of Love | Joseph Cybulkowski |
| 1979 | 1941 | Reese |
| 1976 | Love in the Hamptons | Swede |
| Hollywood Heist | ||
| Bring the Law | Gargos | |
| Merchandise | Patrick | |
| The Mob Priest | Jared McKendry | |
| She's Still Here | Father Scott | |
| The Roaring Game | ||
| A Walking Miracle | Jack |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream | Self - Housemate |
| 2024 | Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live | Self - Housemate |
| 2024 | Celebrity Big Brother | Self - Housemate |
| 2022 | Il était une fois Champs-Élysées | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | The Masked Singer | Gremlin |
| 2019 | The Masked Singer | Self |
| 2019 | The Masked Singer | Gremlin (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Losers | Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Ivan Vanko (archive footage) |
| 2011 | David Haye versus | Self |
| 2010 | The Day Before | Self |
| 2009 | Alan Carr: Chatty Man | Self |
| 2008 | Projectorparishilton | Self - Guest |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest |
| 2002 | V Graham Norton | Self |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self |
| 2001 | The Hire | Husband |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self |
| 1993 | Raw | Self (archive footage) |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |