Mickey Rourke
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 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 direct-to-video productions.
Acted in
Like Tears in Rain
2024
as Self
Faye
2024
as Self
Not Another Church Movie
2024
as Devil
Murder at Hollow Creek
2024
as Ruslan Petrovic
Chuck Zito: An American Story
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Mad Props
2024
as Self
Jade
2024
as Tork
21 Rubies
2023
as Mickey Mandovanis
The Palace
2023
as Bill Crush
Murder Motel
2023
as Dino
Sly
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hunt Club
2023
as Virgil
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Section 8
2022
as Earl Atherton
WarHunt
2022
as Major Johnson
The Commando
2022
as Johnny
Man of God
2021
as Paralyzed Man
Take Back
2021
as Patrick / Jack
Adverse
2021
as Kaden
Bisping
2021
as Self
Girl
2020
as Sheriff
Belmondo l'influenceur
2020
as Self
The Legion
2020
as Corbulo
Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Jim
Night Walk
2019
as Gary
Losers
2019
as Self
The Masked Singer
2019
as Gremlin
The Masked Singer
2019
as Self
The Masked Singer
2019
as Gremlin (archive footage)
Tiger
2018
as Frank Donovan
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
2018
as Self - The Narrator (voice)
Nightmare Cinema
2018
as The Projectionist
Weaponized
2016
as Professor Clarence Peterson
Blunt Force Trauma
2015
as Zorringer
War Pigs
2015
as Major A.J. Redding
Ashby
2015
as Ashby Holt
A Hitman in London
2015
as Vogel
Hollywood Banker
2014
as Self
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
as Marv
Dead in Tombstone
2013
as Lucifer
Generation Iron
2013
as Narrator (voice)
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
2013
as Self
Java Heat
2013
as Malik
Black November
2012
as Tom Hudson
The Courier
2012
as Maxwell
Sunset Strip
2012
as Self
I Am Bruce Lee
2012
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Immortals
2011
as King Hyperion
David Haye versus
2011
as Self
Passion Play
2011
as Nate
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
2010
as Self
One Night in Vegas
2010
as Self
The Day Before
2010
as Self
The Expendables
2010
as Tool
Iron Man 2
2010
as Ivan Vanko
13
2010
as Jefferson
42nd Street: River to River
2009
as Self
Within the Ring
2009
as Self
WWE WrestleMania XXV
2009
as Self
La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
Killshot
2008
as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
The Informers
2008
as Peter
Hyung
2008
as Jack
The Wrestler
2008
as Randy
Stormbreaker
2006
as Darrius Sayle
Domino
2005
as Ed Mosbey
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
2005
as Self
Sin City
2005
as Marv
Man on Fire
2004
as Jordan Kalfus
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
as Billy Chambers
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Edmund
Spun
2003
as The Cook
Picture Claire
2001
as Eddie
The Follow
2001
as Husband
The Hire
2001
as Husband
They Crawl
2001
as Tiny Frakes
The Pledge
2001
as Jim Olstad
Animal Factory
2000
as Jan the Actress
Get Carter
2000
as Cyrus Paice
Shades
1999
as Paul S. Sullivan
Out in Fifty
1999
as Jack Bracken
Shergar
1999
as Gavin O'Rourke
Thursday
1998
as Kasarov
Thicker Than Blood
1998
as Father Frank Larkin
Point Blank
1998
as Rudy Ray
Buffalo '66
1998
as The Bookie
The Rainmaker
1997
as Bruiser Stone
Exit in Red
1997
as Ed Altman
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1997
as John Gray
Double Team
1997
as Stavros
Bullet
1996
as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
Fall Time
1995
as Florence
F.T.W.
1994
as Frank T. Wells
Meet Mickey Rourke
1994
as Self
The Last Outlaw
1993
as Graff
Raw
1993
as Self (archive footage)
White Sands
1992
as Gorman Lennox
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
as Harley Davidson
Desperate Hours
1990
as Michael Bosworth
Wild Orchid
1989
as James Wheeler
Johnny Handsome
1989
as Johnny Handsome
Francesco
1989
as Francesco
Homeboy
1988
as Johnny Walker
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
as Martin Fallon
Barfly
1987
as Henry Chinaski
Angel Heart
1987
as Harry Angel
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
as John
Year of the Dragon
1985
as Stanley White
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
as Charlie
Rumble Fish
1983
as The Motorcycle Boy
Eureka
1983
as Aurelio D'Amato
Diner
1982
as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Body Heat
1981
as Teddy Lewis
Heaven's Gate
1980
as Nick Ray
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as John Rideout
Fade to Black
1980
as Richie
Act of Love
1980
as Joseph Cybulkowski
City in Fear
1980
as Tony Pate
1941
1979
as Reese
Love in the Hamptons
1976
as Swede
Hollywood Heist
Bring the Law
as Gargos
The Wheels of Heaven
as Reverend Beau Jackson
The Mob Priest
as Jared McKendry
Merchandise
as Patrick
She's Still Here
as Father Scott