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.
TBAA Walking Miracle as Jack
TBAThe Roaring Game as Unknown
TBAShe's Still Here as Father Scott
TBAThe Mob Priest as Jared McKendry
TBAMerchandise as Patrick
TBABring the Law as Gargos
TBAHollywood Heist as Unknown
2025Devil's Play as Reverend Beau Jackson
2024Like Tears in Rain as Self
2024Faye as Self
2024Not Another Church Movie as Devil
2024Jade as Tork
2024Murder at Hollow Creek as Ruslan Petrovic
2024Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self (archive footage)
2024Celebrity Big Brother: Live Stream (18 Episodes) as Self - Housemate
2024Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live (17 Episodes) as Self - Housemate
2024Celebrity Big Brother (17 Episodes) as Self - Housemate
2024Mad Props as Self
202321 Rubies as Mickey Mandovanis
2023The Palace as Bill Crush
2023Murder Motel as Dino
2023Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023Hunt Club as Virgil
2022Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2022Section 8 as Earl Atherton
2022WarHunt as Major Johnson
2022The Commando as Johnny
2021Man of God as Paralyzed Man
2021Take Back as Patrick / Jack
2021Adverse as Kaden
2021Bisping as Self
2020Girl as Sheriff
2020Belmondo l'influenceur as Self
2020The Legion as Corbulo
2019Berlin, I Love You as Jim
2019Night Walk as Gary
2019Losers (1 Episode) as Self
2019The Masked Singer (1, 1, 2 Episode) as Gremlin, Self, Gremlin (archive footage)
2018Tiger as Frank Donovan
2018Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers as Self - The Narrator (voice)
2018Nightmare Cinema as The Projectionist
2016Weaponized as Professor Clarence Peterson
2015Blunt Force Trauma as Zorringer
2015War Pigs as Major A.J. Redding
2015Ashby as Ashby Holt
2015A Hitman in London as Vogel
2014Hollywood Banker as Self
2014Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Marv
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 Episode) as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 Episode) as Self
2013Dead in Tombstone as Lucifer
2013Generation Iron as Narrator (voice)
2013The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini as Self
2013Java Heat as Malik
2012Black November as Tom Hudson
2012The Courier as Maxwell
2012Sunset Strip as Self
2012Honest Trailers (1 Episode) as Ivan Vanko (archive footage)
2012I Am Bruce Lee as Self
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011Immortals as King Hyperion
2011David Haye versus (1 Episode) as Self
2011Passion Play as Nate
2010Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' as Self
2010One Night in Vegas as Self
2010The Day Before (1 Episode) as Self
2010The Expendables as Tool
2010Iron Man 2 as Ivan Vanko
201013 as Jefferson
200942nd Street: River to River as Self
2009Alan Carr: Chatty Man (1 Episode) as Self
2009Within the Ring as Self
2009WWE WrestleMania XXV as Self
2009La Traversée du désir as Self
2008Killshot as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
2008The Informers as Peter
2008Hyung as Jack
2008The Wrestler as Randy
2008Projectorparishilton (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2006Stormbreaker as Darrius Sayle
2005Domino as Ed Mosbey
2005Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
2005Sin City as Marv
2004Man on Fire as Jordan Kalfus
2003Once Upon a Time in Mexico as Billy Chambers
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 Episode) as Self
2003Masked and Anonymous as Edmund
2003Spun as The Cook
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1, 1 Episode) as Self, Self - Guest
2002V Graham Norton (1 Episode) as Self
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2 Episodes) as Self
2001Picture Claire as Eddie
2001The Follow as Husband
2001The Hire (1 Episode) as Husband
2001They Crawl as Tiny Frakes
2001The Pledge as Jim Olstad
2000Animal Factory as Jan the Actress
2000Get Carter as Cyrus Paice
1999Shades as Paul S. Sullivan
1999Out in Fifty as Jack Bracken
1999Shergar as Gavin O'Rourke
1998Thursday as Kasarov
1998Thicker Than Blood as Father Frank Larkin
1998Point Blank as Rudy Ray
1998Buffalo '66 as The Bookie
1997The Rainmaker as Bruiser Stone
1997Exit in Red as Ed Altman
1997Another 9 1/2 Weeks as John Gray
1997Double Team as Stavros
1996Bullet as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
1995Fall Time as Florence
1994F.T.W. as Frank T. Wells
1994Meet Mickey Rourke as Self
1993The Last Outlaw as Graff
1993Raw (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1993GMTV (1 Episode) as Self
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1 Episode) as Self
1992White Sands as Gorman Lennox
1991Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson
1990Desperate Hours as Michael Bosworth
1989Wild Orchid as James Wheeler
1989Johnny Handsome as Johnny Handsome
1989Francesco as Francesco
1988Homeboy as Johnny Walker
1987A Prayer for the Dying as Martin Fallon
1987Barfly as Henry Chinaski
1987Angel Heart as Harry Angel
1986Nine 1/2 Weeks as John
1985Year of the Dragon as Stanley White
1984The Pope of Greenwich Village as Charlie
1983Rumble Fish as The Motorcycle Boy
1983Eureka as Aurelio D'Amato
1982Diner as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
1981Body Heat as Teddy Lewis
1981Wetten, dass..? (1 Episode) as Self
1980Heaven's Gate as Nick Ray
1980Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as John Rideout
1980Fade to Black as Richie
1980Act of Love as Joseph Cybulkowski
1980City in Fear as Tony Pate
19791941 as Reese
1976Love in the Hamptons as Swede
1974Spécial cinéma (1 Episode) as Self
2022The Commando ... Executive Producer
2021Take Back ... Executive Producer
2018Nightmare Cinema ... Co-Executive Producer
2016House of Time ... Thanks
1996Bullet ... Music Supervisor