Mickey Rourke: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 72 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Schenectady, New York, USA

Fecha de nacimiento: 16 de septiembre de 1952

Películas destacadas de Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Ivan Vanko en Iron Man 2 — Iron Man 2
*Ivan Vanko*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Tool en Los mercenarios — Los mercenarios
*Tool*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a King Hyperion en Immortals — Immortals
*King Hyperion*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Marv en Sin City: Ciudad del pecado — Sin City: Ciudad del pecado
*Marv*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Jordan Kalfus en El fuego de la venganza — El fuego de la venganza
*Jordan Kalfus*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Billy Chambers en El mexicano — El mexicano
*Billy Chambers*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Reese en 1941 — 1941
*Reese*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Stavros en Double Team — Double Team
*Stavros*

Mickey Rourke interpreta a Bruiser Stone en Legítima defensa, de John Grisham — Legítima defensa, de John Grisham
*Bruiser Stone*

Biografía de 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.