Mickey Rourke
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 16, 1952 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Schenectady, New York, USA
- Credits
- 155
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
Filmography
Bring the Law
2026Movie
Gargos
The Roaring Game
2026Movie
The Plow King
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025Movie
Self
Devil's Play
2025Movie
Reverend Beau Jackson
Like Tears in Rain
2024Movie
Self
Faye
2024Movie
Self
Not Another Church Movie
2024Movie
Devil
Jade
2024Movie
Tork
Murder at Hollow Creek
2024Movie
Ruslan Petrovic
Chuck Zito: An American Story
2024Movie
Self
Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream
2024TV
Self - Housemate
Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live
2024TV
Self - Housemate
Celebrity Big Brother
2024TV
Self - Housemate
Mad Props
2024Movie
Self
21 Rubies
2023Movie
Mickey Mandovanis
The Palace
2023Movie
Bill Crush
Murder Motel
2023Movie
Dino
Hunt Club
2023Movie
Virgil
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022TV
Self (archive footage)
Section 8
2022Movie
Earl Atherton
WarHunt
2022Movie
Major Johnson
The Commando
2022Movie
Johnny
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
2022Movie
Man of God
2021Movie
Paralyzed Man
Take Back
2021Movie
Patrick / Jack
kid 90
2021Movie
Self
Adverse
2021Movie
Kaden
Bisping
2021Movie
Self
Girl
2020Movie
Sheriff
Belmondo l'influenceur
2020Movie
Self
The Legion
2020Movie
Corbulo
Berlin, I Love You
2019Movie
Jim
Night Walk
2019Movie
Gary
Losers
2019TV
Self
The Masked Singer
2019TV
Gremlin, Self, Gremlin (archive footage)
Tiger
2018Movie
Frank Donovan
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
2018Movie
Self - The Narrator (voice)
Nightmare Cinema
2018Movie
The Projectionist
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018Movie
Weaponized
2016Movie
Professor Clarence Peterson
Blunt Force Trauma
2015Movie
Zorringer
War Pigs
2015Movie
Major A.J. Redding
Ashby
2015Movie
Ashby Holt
A Hitman in London
2015Movie
Vogel
Hollywood Banker
2014Movie
Self
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014Movie
Marv
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self - Guest
Dead in Tombstone
2013Movie
Lucifer
Generation Iron
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
2013Movie
Self
Java Heat
2013Movie
Malik
Black November
2012Movie
Tom Hudson
The Courier
2012Movie
Maxwell
Sunset Strip
2012Movie
Self
I Am Bruce Lee
2012Movie
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012Movie
(archive footage)
Immortals
2011Movie
King Hyperion
David Haye versus
2011TV
Self
Passion Play
2011Movie
Nate
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
2010Movie
Self
Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of 'Iron Man 2'
2010Movie
Self
One Night in Vegas
2010Movie
Self
The Day Before
2010TV
Self
The Expendables
2010Movie
Tool
Iron Man 2
2010Movie
Ivan Vanko
13
2010Movie
Jefferson
42nd Street: River to River
2009Movie
Self
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009TV
Self
Within the Ring
2009Movie
Self
WWE WrestleMania XXV
2009Movie
Self
La Traversée du désir
2009Movie
Self
The Wrestler
2008Movie
Randy
Killshot
2008Movie
Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
The Informers
2008Movie
Peter
Hyung
2008Movie
Jack
Projectorparishilton
2008TV
Self - Guest
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007Movie
Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Stormbreaker
2006Movie
Darrius Sayle
Domino
2005Movie
Ed Mosbey
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
2005Movie
Self
Sin City
2005Movie
Marv
Man on Fire
2004Movie
Jordan Kalfus
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003Movie
Billy Chambers
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
Masked and Anonymous
2003Movie
Edmund
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003Movie
Self (archive footage)
Spun
2003Movie
The Cook
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self, Self - Guest
V Graham Norton
2002TV
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001TV
Self
Picture Claire
2001Movie
Eddie
The Follow
2001Movie
Husband
The Hire
2001TV
Husband
They Crawl
2001Movie
Tiny Frakes
The Pledge
2001Movie
Jim Olstad
Animal Factory
2000Movie
Jan the Actress
Get Carter
2000Movie
Cyrus Paice
Shades
1999Movie
Paul S. Sullivan
Out in Fifty
1999Movie
Jack Bracken
Shergar
1999Movie
Gavin O'Rourke
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
1999TV
Thursday
1998Movie
Kasarov
Thicker Than Blood
1998Movie
Father Frank Larkin
Point Blank
1998Movie
Rudy Ray
Buffalo '66
1998Movie
The Bookie
The Rainmaker
1997Movie
Bruiser Stone
Exit in Red
1997Movie
Ed Altman
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1997Movie
John Gray
Double Team
1997Movie
Stavros
Bullet
1996Movie
Butch 'Bullet' Stein
Fall Time
1995Movie
Florence
F.T.W.
1994Movie
Frank T. Wells
Meet Mickey Rourke
1994Movie
Self
The Last Outlaw
1993Movie
Graff
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Guest
Raw
1993TV
Self (archive footage)
GMTV
1993TV
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Self
White Sands
1992Movie
Gorman Lennox
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991Movie
Harley Davidson
Desperate Hours
1990Movie
Michael Bosworth
The Word
1990TV
Wild Orchid
1989Movie
James Wheeler
Johnny Handsome
1989Movie
Johnny Handsome
Francesco
1989Movie
Francesco
Homeboy
1988Movie
Johnny Walker
A Prayer for the Dying
1987Movie
Martin Fallon
Barfly
1987Movie
Henry Chinaski
Angel Heart
1987Movie
Harry Angel
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986Movie
John
Year of the Dragon
1985Movie
Stanley White
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984Movie
Charlie
Rumble Fish
1983Movie
The Motorcycle Boy
Eureka
1983Movie
Aurelio D'Amato
Diner
1982Movie
Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Body Heat
1981Movie
Teddy Lewis
Wetten, dass..?
1981TV
Self
Heaven's Gate
1980Movie
Nick Ray
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980Movie
John Rideout
Fade to Black
1980Movie
Richie
Act of Love
1980Movie
Joseph Cybulkowski
City in Fear
1980Movie
Tony Pate
1941
1979Movie
Reese
Love in the Hamptons
1976Movie
Swede
Spécial cinéma
1974TV
Self
Film '72
1971TV
Self
National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist
Movie
3 Days Rising
Movie
Willy T
She's Still Here
Movie
Father Scott
Merchandise
Movie
Patrick
A Walking Miracle
Movie
Jack
The Mob Priest
Movie
Jared McKendry