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Birthday: September 16, 1956
Mickey Rourke originally aspired to careers as a pro baseball player and - later - a championship boxer, but did a 180 away from the ring and cut his chops as an actor instead. Rourke launched his career with small roles in 1941 (1979) and Heaven's Gate (1981) before gaining broader notice as a pyro expert in Body Heat (1981) and one of the raunchier leads in Barry Levinson's ...more
- 2008
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best Actor
- The Wrestler
- win
- 2008
- Washington D.C. Film Critics Associatio
- Best Actor
- The Wrestler
- win
- 2008
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- The Wrestler
- win
- 2008
- Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Bravest Performance Award
- The Wrestler
- win
- 2008
- Boston Society of Film Critics
- Best Actor
- The Wrestler
- win
- 2010
- Iron Man 2
- Whiplash
- 2010
- The Expendables
- Tool
- 2009
- Killshot
- Armand "Blackbird" Degas
- 2008
- The Informers
- Peter
- 2008
- The Wrestler
- Randy "The Ram" Robinson
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