Mickey Rourke
Acting
Born: September 16, 1952 (age 73) · Schenectady, New York, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Iron Man 2
2010
Sin City
2005
The Expendables
2010
Man on Fire
2004
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
The Wrestler
2008
Immortals
2011
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
Angel Heart
1987
The Rainmaker
1997
Domino
2005
The Pledge
2001
Photos (9)
Movies (96)
Iron Man 2
Ivan Vanko
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Marv
The Expendables
Tool
Man on Fire
Jordan Kalfus
Sin City
Marv
Immortals
King Hyperion
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Billy Chambers
The Wrestler
Randy
Nine 1/2 Weeks
John
Body Heat
Teddy Lewis
The Rainmaker
Bruiser Stone
The Pledge
Jim Olstad
Wild Orchid
James Wheeler
Angel Heart
Harry Angel
Rumble Fish
The Motorcycle Boy
1941
Reese
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Harley Davidson
13
Jefferson
Double Team
Stavros
The Informers
Peter
Johnny Handsome
Johnny Handsome
Domino
Ed Mosbey
Buffalo '66
The Bookie
Stormbreaker
Darrius Sayle
Get Carter
Cyrus Paice
Heaven's Gate
Nick Ray
Killshot
Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
Girl
Sheriff
Spun
The Cook
Thursday
Kasarov
Section 8
Earl Atherton
Nightmare Cinema
The Projectionist
The Courier
Maxwell
The Commando
Johnny
Passion Play
Nate
Diner
Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Barfly
Henry Chinaski
The Legion
Corbulo
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
John Gray
The Palace
Bill Crush
Year of the Dragon
Stanley White
Bring the Law
Gargos
Jade
Tork
Desperate Hours
Michael Bosworth
Berlin, I Love You
Jim
War Pigs
Major A.J. Redding
Animal Factory
Jan the Actress
WarHunt
Major Johnson
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
White Sands
Gorman Lennox
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Charlie
Point Blank
Rudy Ray
Ashby
Ashby Holt
Dead in Tombstone
Lucifer
A Prayer for the Dying
Martin Fallon
Eureka
Aurelio D'Amato
Bullet
Butch 'Bullet' Stein
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Blunt Force Trauma
Zorringer
Java Heat
Malik
Masked and Anonymous
Edmund
The Last Outlaw
Graff
The Roaring Game
The Plow King
Adverse
Kaden
Hunt Club
Virgil
Fade to Black
Richie
Take Back
Patrick / Jack
Night Walk
Gary
Man of God
Paralyzed Man
Weaponized
Professor Clarence Peterson
A Hitman in London
Vogel
Picture Claire
Eddie
Out in Fifty
Jack Bracken
Murder Motel
Dino
The Follow
Husband
Black November
Tom Hudson
Homeboy
Johnny Walker
Francesco
Francesco
Not Another Church Movie
Devil
Murder at Hollow Creek
Ruslan Petrovic
Fall Time
Florence
Act of Love
Joseph Cybulkowski
Devil's Play
Reverend Beau Jackson
Generation Iron
Narrator (voice)
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
2022
They Crawl
Tiny Frakes
Exit in Red
Ed Altman
City in Fear
Tony Pate
Tiger
Frank Donovan
F.T.W.
Frank T. Wells
Love in the Hamptons
Swede
21 Rubies
Mickey Mandovanis
Shades
Paul S. Sullivan
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
John Rideout
Shergar
Gavin O'Rourke
Thicker Than Blood
Father Frank Larkin
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (46)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Raw
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · 1 eps
GMTV
Self · 1 eps
The Masked Singer
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
V Graham Norton
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self · 2 eps
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Self · 1 eps
Projectorparishilton
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
WWE WrestleMania XXV
Self
Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live
Self - Housemate · 17 eps
Belmondo l'influenceur
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream
Self - Housemate · 18 eps
Celebrity Big Brother
Self - Housemate · 17 eps
Sunset Strip
Self
I Am Bruce Lee
Self
Losers
Self · 1 eps
Faye
Self
Hollywood Banker
Self
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
Self - The Narrator (voice)
The Day Before
Self · 1 eps
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
Self
Mad Props
Self
La Traversée du désir
Self
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
Self
Within the Ring
Self
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
Self
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
Self
Chuck Zito: An American Story
Self
Like Tears in Rain
Self
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)
Bisping
Self
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Self
One Night in Vegas
Self
Meet Mickey Rourke
Self
42nd Street: River to River
Self
