Name:
Date of Birth:
Mickey Rourke
16 September 1952
Mickey Rourke played in 35 movies in the Crime, Drama, Thriller, Music, Action, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Mystery, Biography, Western, Short, Adventure, Family, Sport, Sci-Fi, Fantasy genres.
Mickey Rourke got succeed with average imdb rating 6.3.
Has at least seven tatoos including a tiger brains with Chinese symbolson his formerly larboard jointly, a bulls skull on his right bicep, and a shamrock on his left forearm.
Became a qualified boxer in 1991 but retired in 1995.
Is a motorcycle enthusiast.
Kim Basinger once called him "The Human Ashtray".
Filmed a position in The Pinched Red Line (1998), that eventually got cut. He gets thanked in the credits.
Arrested by the LAPD and charged with spousal ill-use. [July 1994]
... Used to own a gym in West Hollywood called Shapiro.
Has an younger sister named Patty, a younger half-fellow-creature named Joey Rourke, and six step-siblings.
Walked off the lodge of Luck of the Draw (2000) when the producers refused to give vent to him include his pet chihuahua in the silver screen. [August 1999]
Was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in L.A. His reps said it was over the extent of an allergic reaction to cough syrup he was taking to strive against the flu. Rourke was released a few hours later. [19 April 1999]
Grew up in the tough Miami area known as Liberty Burgh.
Was start with offered the situation of Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop (1984). It was later passed on to Sylvester Stallone, and, after myriad screenplay revisions, Eddie Murphy.
Was trained by Sandra Seacat.
Made his efficient boxing coming out on May 23, 1991 in Florida through winning a 4 curvilinear decision remaining Steve Powell.
Retired from boxing undefeated after boxing a tie with "Irish" Sean Gibbons in Davie, Florida in 1994.
As an amateur boxer, put together a knockout streak of 12 unadulterated.
Sparred with great champions James Toney and Carlos Monzón.
On June 3, 1992 he knocked-dated Darrell Miller in a specific spell beat in Japan.
On Nov. 20, 1993, he knocked-out Thomas McCoy in 3 rounds in Germany.
On Dec. 12, 1993 he knocked-wide of the mark Terry Jesmer in Spain in 4 rounds.
Used to co-own a very bantam soda fountain/ice cream/munitions dump stand in Beverly Hills with his hairdresser pal Giuseppe Franco called Mickey & Joey's.
As a boxer, his epithet was "El Marielito".
Visited prior World Middleweight Boxing Winner Carlos Monzón while Monz?n was in prison for murder in Argentina. The two reportedly boxed an demo.
Was considered in spite of the role of Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Has admitted in interviews that he only did Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Bloke (1991) because of the profit.
Was at cast as "Stuntman Mike" in Grindhouse (2007).
Turned down Bruce Willis' place in Fiction (1994).
Was considered for a role in Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Is a godly friend of French choirboy and painter Tristan, who designed, among other things, the "tiger jacket" Rourke wears in Homeboy (1988).
In its necrology of poet Charles Bukowski, the screenwriter of Barfly (1987), "The Mod York Post" used a photo of Rourke as Henry Chinaski in the blur a substitute alternatively of a photo of the poet himself.
Was offered a r“le in Revolver (2005/I), but turned it down to do Domino (2005).
Was great friends with Bullet (1996) co-star and rapper Tupac Shakur.
Has turned down lead roles in Highlander (1986), The Untouchables (1987) and Sprinkle Gink (1988).
Irish American.
On the Waterfront (1954) big cheese Elia Kazan said that Rourke's student audition was the choicest audition piece he'd seen in 30 years.
Injuries he received as a boxer catalogue a split dialect and a compressed cheekbone. Surgeons rebuilt his nose with cartilage from his regard. His equiponderance also suffers to this day if he is drained or drinks alcohol.
Other movies he is alleged to have turned down include 48 Hrs. (1982), Platoon (1986), Top Gun (1986) and Tombstone (1993).
In October 2001, he paid half a million pounds for a clan in County Wicklow in Ireland.
On October 16, 2004, his younger brother, Joey Rourke (born June 25, 1954) died of lung cancer. He was 50 years old. Mickey credited his brother Joey with preventing him from committing suicide in 1998.
He toured Moscow, Russia's overcrowded Butyrka send up the river to build in spite of his new role as a Russian villain in "Iron Man 2". [March 2009]
In a 2008 interview with rottentomatoes.com, Rourke said his five favorite films were The Deer Huntswoman (1978), The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather: District II (1974), Lonely Are the Dare (1962), On the Waterfront (1954) and Gilda (1946).
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