Mickey Rourke

Acting · 4.3 popularity

Age

Movies

126

Born: September 16, 1952
From: 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.

Works

126 films

Iron Man 2

20106.9

Man on Fire

20047.5

The Expendables

20106.3

Sin City

20057.5

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

20146.4

Nine 1/2 Weeks

19866.1

Immortals

20116.1

The Wrestler

20087.5

Body Heat

19817.0

The Rainmaker

19977.0

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

20036.3

Angel Heart

19877.1

1941

19795.8

The Pledge

20016.6

Get Carter

20005.2

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Double Team

19975.3

Wild Orchid

19895.3

Thursday

19986.9

Heaven's Gate

19806.7

20105.8

Buffalo '66

19987.1

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

The Palace

20235.4

The Informers

20084.7

Girl

20206.0

Jade

20244.9

Killshot

20085.8

The Commando

20225.7

Year of the Dragon

19856.8

Stormbreaker

20065.2

Bring the Law

20266.8

Section 8

20226.1

Passion Play

20114.7

The Courier

20124.8

Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers

20186.2

White Sands

19925.9

Domino

20055.9

Spun

20036.6

Eureka

19835.3

Another 9 1/2 Weeks

19974.6

Nightmare Cinema

20185.8

The Pope of Greenwich Village

19846.3

Desperate Hours

19905.4

Barfly

19876.9

Diner

19826.8

Animal Factory

20006.3

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Ashby

20156.2

The Legion

20206.2

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Berlin, I Love You

20194.8

Take Back

20215.9

War Pigs

20154.8

Belmondo l'influenceur

20208.4

Man of God

20217.0

Bullet

19966.2

A Prayer for the Dying

19875.9

WarHunt

20225.0

Faye

20246.4

Point Blank

19984.5

Dead in Tombstone

20135.0

Mad Props

20246.0

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

Fade to Black

19805.6

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

20058.0

Chuck Zito: An American Story

20242.0

Hunt Club

20234.3

Out in Fifty

19993.7

The Last Outlaw

19935.4

The Roaring Game

2026

Night Walk

20194.6

F.T.W.

19944.7

Murder Motel

20235.3

Blunt Force Trauma

20155.0

Weaponized

20163.7

I Am Bruce Lee

20127.6

A Hitman in London

20154.2

Homeboy

19885.0

Fall Time

19954.8

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

20108.0

Java Heat

20135.2

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

20058.0

Adverse

20214.8

WWE WrestleMania XXV

20097.8

Not Another Church Movie

20243.3

Picture Claire

20015.6

Hollywood Banker

20146.4

Hyung

2008

Sunset Strip

20127.3

Francesco

19896.6

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Act of Love

19806.0

Devil's Play

20255.5

National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist

2026

Black November

20125.0

The Follow

20016.9

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

19805.9

Merchandise

2026

3 Days Rising

2026

They Crawl

20014.5

Bisping

20216.0

City in Fear

19805.7

Murder at Hollow Creek

20242.0

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

2007

Like Tears in Rain

20247.7

She's Still Here

2026

Exit in Red

19974.0

Generation Iron

20136.7

Love in the Hamptons

1976

Meet Mickey Rourke

19943.0

The Mob Priest

2026

Tiger

20186.4

Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

20258.0

Within the Ring

20096.0

Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man

20225.0

Thicker Than Blood

19987.1

One Night in Vegas

20106.3

A Walking Miracle

2026

Shades

19996.0

42nd Street: River to River

20092.0

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

20137.1

Shergar

19996.4

21 Rubies

202310.0