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 Rourkewho trained as a boxer in his early yearsleft 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 neonoir 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 directtovideo productions
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