It was under the latter's tutelage, Rourke later recalled, that "everything started to click." Borrowing $400 from his sister, he moved to New York, working an assortment of odd jobs while studying with Actors Studio alumni Walter Lott and Sandra Seacat. Rourke got the part and immediately became enamored with acting. Soon after he temporarily gave up boxing, a friend at the University of Miami told Rourke about a play he was directing, Deathwatch, and how the man playing the role of Green Eyes had quit. However, Rourke's interests were geared to boxing, and he never appeared in any other school productions. In 1971, as a senior at Miami Beach Senior High School, Rourke had a small acting role in the Jay W. From 1964 to 1973, Rourke compiled an amateur boxing record of 27 wins (including 12 straight knockouts) and 3 defeats, which included a first-round knockout win over John Carver and decision victories over Ronnie Carter and Javier Villanueva. After being told by doctors to take a year off and rest, Rourke temporarily retired from the ring. Īt the 1971 Florida Golden Gloves, Rourke suffered another concussion in a boxing match. Rourke says he received a concussion from his sparring match with Rodríguez. Rodríguez was the number one–rated middleweight boxer in the world and was training for his match with world champion Nino Benvenuti. In 1969, Rourke, then weighing 140 pounds (63.5 kg), sparred with former World Welterweight Champion Luis Rodríguez. He continued his boxing training at the famed 5th Street Gym, in Miami Beach, Florida. It was there that he learned boxing skills and decided on an amateur career.Īt age 12, Rourke won his first boxing match as a 112-pound (51 kg) flyweight, fighting some of his early matches under the name Phil Rourke. He took up self-defense training at the Boys Club of Miami. Career Amateur boxing ĭuring his teenage years, Rourke focused his attention mainly on sports. There, he graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1971.
After his parents divorced, his mother married Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police officer with five sons, and moved Rourke, his younger brother (Joey), and their sister (Patricia) to South Florida. His father left the family when Mickey was young. He was raised Catholic and still practices his faith. His father was of Irish descent and his mother had Scottish ancestry.
was born on September 16, 1952, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Annette ( née Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke (1924–1982). Since then, Rourke has appeared in several commercially successful films, including the 2010 films Iron Man 2 and The Expendables, and the 2011 film Immortals. For his portrayal of an aging wrestler in the sports drama film The Wrestler (2008), Rourke won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2005, Rourke made his 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. Īfter retiring from boxing in 1994, Rourke returned to acting and had supporting roles in several films, including the drama The Rainmaker (1997), the comedy-drama Buffalo '66 (1998), the thriller-remake of Get Carter (2000), the mystery film The Pledge (2001), the crime-dark-comedy-drama Spun (2002), the action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and the action thriller Man on Fire (2004), playing the role of a corrupt lawyer.
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In 1991, Rourke teamed up with Don Johnson and Tom Sizemore in the cult classic action film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man also in 1991, Rourke-who trained as a boxer in his early years-left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987). ( / r ʊər k/ 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.ĭuring the 1980s, Rourke starred in the comedy-drama Diner (1982), the drama Rumble Fish (1983), the crime-black-comedy film The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), and the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (1986).
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