Mickey Rourke

Acting · 4.2 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

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

20036.3

The Rainmaker

19977.0

Angel Heart

19877.1

Get Carter

20005.2

Rumble Fish

19837.0

The Pledge

20016.6

1941

19795.8

Double Team

19975.3

Buffalo '66

19987.1

Wild Orchid

19895.3

Thursday

19986.9

Heaven's Gate

19806.7

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

20105.8

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

19916.3

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

The Informers

20084.7

The Palace

20235.4

Killshot

20085.8

Year of the Dragon

19856.8

Domino

20055.9

The Courier

20124.8

Bring the Law

20266.8

Section 8

20226.1

The Commando

20225.7

Another 9 1/2 Weeks

19974.6

Stormbreaker

20065.2

Girl

20206.0

The Pope of Greenwich Village

19846.3

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Jade

20244.9

Eureka

19835.3

White Sands

19925.9

Passion Play

20114.7

Barfly

19876.9

Spun

20036.6

Bullet

19966.2

War Pigs

20154.8

Man of God

20217.0

Ashby

20156.2

Berlin, I Love You

20194.8

Nightmare Cinema

20185.8

The Legion

20206.2

Animal Factory

20006.3

Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers

20186.2

Diner

19826.8

Belmondo l'influenceur

20208.4

Desperate Hours

19905.4

A Prayer for the Dying

19875.9

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Point Blank

19984.5

Take Back

20215.9

Dead in Tombstone

20135.0

WarHunt

20225.0

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

20058.0

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

Hunt Club

20234.3

Fade to Black

19805.6

I Am Bruce Lee

20127.6

Weaponized

20163.7

Blunt Force Trauma

20155.0

Chuck Zito: An American Story

20242.0

Out in Fifty

19993.7

The Last Outlaw

19935.4

Java Heat

20135.2

The Roaring Game

2026

A Hitman in London

20154.2

Mad Props

20246.0

F.T.W.

19944.7

Night Walk

20194.6

Homeboy

19885.0

Faye

20246.4

Not Another Church Movie

20243.3

Francesco

19896.6

3 Days Rising

2026

Hollywood Banker

20146.4

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

20108.0

WWE WrestleMania XXV

20097.8

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

19805.9

Murder at Hollow Creek

20242.0

Devil's Play

20255.5

Fall Time

19954.8

National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist

2026

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

2007

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

20058.0

Adverse

20214.8

Picture Claire

20015.6

Hyung

2008

The Follow

20016.9

Murder Motel

20235.3

She's Still Here

2026

Sunset Strip

20127.3

Black November

20125.0

Merchandise

2026

Love in the Hamptons

1976

The Mob Priest

2026

Exit in Red

19974.0

Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

20258.0

Bisping

20216.0

City in Fear

19805.7

They Crawl

20014.5

Tiger

20186.4

Act of Love

19806.0

Thicker Than Blood

19987.1

Like Tears in Rain

20247.7

Generation Iron

20136.7

One Night in Vegas

20106.3

Within the Ring

20096.0

Shades

19996.0

A Walking Miracle

2026

Meet Mickey Rourke

19943.0

Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man

20225.0

Shergar

19996.4

42nd Street: River to River

20092.0

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

20137.1

21 Rubies

202310.0