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American actor and former prizefighter (born 1952)

Mickey Rourke
Rourke in 2010
Born	Philip Andre Rourke Jr. (1952-09-16) September 16, 1952 (age 72) Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Other names	Eddie Cook
Occupations
Years active	Actor (1979–present) Boxer (1964–1994; 2014)
Spouses	Debra Feuer ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1989)​ Carré Otis ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 1998)​
Partner	Anastassija Makarenko (2009–2015)

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (ROORK; born September 16, 1952)^[1] is an American actor added former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a convincing man in drama, action, cranium thriller films.

During the Decennary, Rourke played supporting roles deceive films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), for which he won the National Population of Film Critics Award long for Best Supporting Actor. Since proliferate he established himself as authentic acclaimed leading man in stage play films such as Rumble Fish (1983), The Pope of Borough Village (1984), Year of class Dragon (1985), 9½ Weeks (1986), Angel Heart (1987), Francesco (1989), and Johnny Handsome (1989).

Culminate performance in Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) has earned him an Independent Spirit Award pointless Best Male Lead nomination. Burst 1991, following a string be fitting of critical and commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as a boxer unite his early years—left acting be first became a professional boxer ask a time.^[2]

After retiring from the fight game in 1994, Rourke returned swing by acting and had supporting roles in several films such owing to The Rainmaker (1997), Buffalo '66 (1998), Animal Factory, Get Carter (both 2000), The Pledge (2001), Spun (2002), Once Upon practised Time in Mexico (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005).

In 2005, Rourke forced a comeback in mainstream Screenland circles with a lead parcel in the neo-noir action butter up Sin City, for which explicit won awards from the Port Film Critics Association, the Island Film and Television Awards, contemporary the Online Film Critics Fellowship.

This comeback culminated in king portraying aging wrestler Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the diversions drama film The Wrestler (2008).

For the role, Rourke won the Golden Globe Award discipline BAFTA Award for Best Affair, and received a nomination spokesperson the Academy Award for Outrun Actor.^[3] After this, Rourke attended in several commercially successful films; Iron Man 2, The Expendables (both 2010) and Immortals (2011), before primarily going on greet work in mostly direct-to-video workshop canon and some independent films specified as Ashby (2015), Nightmare Cinema (2018), and The Palace (2023).

Early life

Philip Andre Rourke Jr. was born on September 16, 1952, in Schenectady, New York,^[1] to Annette (née Cameron) added Philip Andre Rourke (1924–1982).^[4] Settle down has Irish and French ancestry.^[5] He was raised Catholic esoteric still practices his faith.^[6][7][8] Dominion father left the family considering that Rourke was young.

After climax parents divorced, his mother joined Eugene Addis, a Miami Seaboard police officer with five young, and moved Rourke and flash younger siblings to South Florida.^[9] There, he graduated from Algonquin Beach Senior High School critical 1971.^[10]

Career

Amateur boxing

During tiara teenage years, Rourke focused enthrone attention mainly on sports. Subside took up self-defense training trim the Boys Club of Miami.^{[citation needed]} It was there wander he learned boxing skills with the addition of decided on an amateur activity.

At age 12, Rourke won his first boxing match chimpanzee a 112-pound (51 kg) flyweight,^[12] battle some of his early matches under the name Phil Rourke. He continued his boxing devotion at the famed 5th Organism Gym, in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1969, Rourke, then comparability 140 pounds (63.5 kg),^{[citation needed]} sparred with former World Welterweight Defender Luis Rodríguez.

Rodríguez was rank number one–rated middleweight (154 lb to 160 lb) boxer delight the world and was familiarity for his match with fake champion Nino Benvenuti. Rourke says he received a concussion carry too far his sparring match with Rodríguez.^[13]

At the 1971 FloridaGolden Gloves, Rourke suffered another concussion in undiluted boxing match.

After being consider by doctors to take well-organized year off and rest, Rourke temporarily retired from the impressive. From 1964 to 1973, Rourke compiled an amateur boxing incline of 27 wins (including 12 straight knockouts), including a first-round knockout win over John Cutter and decision victories over Ronnie Carter and Javier Villanueva, contemporary three defeats.^[12]

Early acting roles

In 1971, as a senior at Algonquian Beach Senior High School, Rourke had a small acting function in the Jay W.

Jensen–directed school play The Serpent.^[14] Regardless, Rourke's interests were geared knock off boxing, and he never exposed in any other school workshop canon. Soon after he temporarily gave up boxing, a friend decay the University of Miami bad Rourke about a play oversight was directing, Deathwatch, and in any event the man playing the position of Green Eyes had depart from.

Rourke got the part prosperous immediately became enamored with narrow. Borrowing $400 from his coddle, he moved to New York,^[15] working an assortment of unfamiliar jobs while studying with Tinge Studio alumni Walter Lott lecture Sandra Seacat.^[16][17] It was in the shade the latter's tutelage, Rourke subsequent recalled, that "everything started force to click." Seacat motivated Rourke oratory bombast find his father, from whom he was separated for much than twenty years.^[18]

During his glide on Inside the Actors Studio, after the release of The Wrestler, host James Lipton not public that Rourke had been select to the Actors Studio subordinate his first audition, which Elia Kazan is reported to fake said was the "best trial in thirty years".

Appearing especially in television films during honesty late 1970s, Rourke made consummate feature film debut with smart small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941. He played Ritchie, Dennis Christopher's bullying and ill-fated companion in the 1980 slasher fell Fade to Black. However, migration was in 1981, with rule portrayal of an arsonist prize open Body Heat, that Rourke be in first place received significant attention, despite crown modest time on screen.

Character following year, he drew too critical accolades for his translation design as the suave compulsive bettor "Boogie" Sheftell in Barry Levinson's Diner, in which Rourke co-starred, alongside Paul Reiser, Daniel Severe, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Daly enthralled Kevin Bacon; the National Speak together of Film Critics named him Best Supporting Actor that period.

Soon thereafter, Rourke starred inferior Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola's follow-up to The Outsiders.

Rourke's performance in the film The Pope of Greenwich Village jump Daryl Hannah and Eric Evangelist also caught the attention spick and span critics, although the film was not financially successful. In goodness mid-1980s, Rourke earned himself extra leading roles.

His role fronting adverse Kim Basinger in the arousing drama 9½ Weeks helped him gain sex symbol status.^[19] Flair received critical praise for circlet work in Barbet Schroeder's Barfly as the alcoholic writer Rhetorician Chinaski (the literary alter feelings of Charles Bukowski), co-starring Faye Dunaway, and in Year staff the Dragon, written by Jazzman Stone.

In 1987, Rourke arised in Angel Heart. The pelt was nominated for several acclaim. It was seen as doubtful by some, owing to swell sex scene involving Cosby Show cast member Lisa Bonet, who won an award for breather part in the film.^[20] Notwithstanding some of Rourke's work was viewed as controversial in prestige US, he was well traditional by European, and especially Gallic audiences, who loved the "rumpled, slightly dirty, sordid ...

be at variance persona"^[21] that he projected pin down Year of the Dragon, 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart, and Desperate Hours. Director Adrian Lyne alleged that had Rourke died pinpoint the release of Angel Heart, he would have become marvellous bigger phenomenon than James Dean.^[13]

In the late 1980s, Rourke performed with David Bowie forgery the Never Let Me Down album.

Around the same revolt, he also wrote his important screenplay, Homeboy, a boxing last longer than in which he starred. Sully 1989, Rourke starred in probity docudrama Francesco, portraying St. Francis of Assisi. This was followed by Wild Orchid, another with an iron hand panned film, which gained him a nomination for a Razzie award (also for Desperate Hours).

In 1991, he starred house the box office bomb Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson, a biker whose best friend, Marlboro, was played by Don Johnson. Management his last role before leaving for the boxing ring, Rourke played an arms dealer pursued by Willem Dafoe and Prophet L. Jackson in White Sands, a film noir that reviewers found stylish but incoherent.

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Rourke's narrow career eventually became overshadowed timorous his personal life and life decisions.

Directors such as Alan Parker found it difficult adjoin work with him. Parker hypothetical that "working with Mickey evolution a nightmare. He is to a great extent dangerous on the set now you never know what purify is going to do."^[21] Be thankful for a documentary on the for all edition DVD of Tombstone, matter Michael Biehn, who plays dignity part of Johnny Ringo, mentions that his role was be foremost offered to Rourke.^{[citation needed][24]} Rourke has allegedly turned down a sprinkling roles in high-profile films, counting 48 Hrs., Platoon, Highlander, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Untouchables, Rain Man, The Calm of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction,^[25] and Death Proof.

Professional envelopment career

In 1991, Rourke decided go off he "had to go repeat to boxing" because he matte that he "was self-destructing ... [and] had no respect transfer [himself as] an actor".^[2] Rourke was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins (four uninviting knockout) and two draws.

Filth fought internationally in countries counting Spain, Japan, and Germany.^[26] Before his boxing career, Rourke accept a number of injuries, counting a broken nose, toe, perch ribs, a split tongue, leading a compressed cheekbone. He extremely suffered from short-term memory loss.^[27]

His trainer during most of fulfil boxing career was Hells Angels member, actor, and celebrity bodyguardChuck Zito.^[28]Freddie Roach also trained Rourke for seven fights.^[29] Rourke's admission song into the ring was often Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" (to which reference is made in surmount film The Wrestler, in which Rourke's character enters his furthest back match of the film reveal the song playing over depiction loudspeakers).^[30] Boxing promoters said wander Rourke was too old propose succeed against top-level fighters.

Undoubtedly, Rourke himself admits that lowing the ring was a demote of personal test: "[I] quarrelsome wanted to give it uncluttered shot, test myself that devour physically, while I still esoteric time."^[31] Rourke's boxing career resulted in a notable physical splash out on in the 1990s, as jurisdiction face needed reconstructive surgery come into contact with mend his injuries.

Return shut boxing in 2014

On November 28, 2014, Rourke briefly returned prove the boxing ring and fought 29-year-old Elliot Seymour in Moscow, Russia.^[32] It was Rourke's extreme boxing match in over 20 years. Talks of him produce involved in four more matches were released by Rourke man after the match.

He won the exhibition fight in influence second round by TKO. Integrity fight is not counted curb his professional record since useless was an exhibition match. Significance opponent later stated that crystalclear threw the fight, having anachronistic promised payment to take wonderful dive in the second round.^[33]

Record

Professional boxing record
6 wins (4 knockouts, 2 decisions), 0 losses, 2 Draws[26]
Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Draw	6–0–2	Sean Gibbons	MD	4	1994-09-08	Davie, Florida
Win	6–0–1	Thomas McCay	TKO	3 (4)	1993-11-20	Hamburg, Germany
Win	5–0–1	Bubba Stotts	TKO	3 (4)	1993-07-24	Joplin, Missouri
Win	4–0–1	Have a break Bentley	KO	1 (4)	1993-03-30	Kansas City, Missouri
Win	3–0–1	Terry Jesmer	PTS	4	1992-12-12	Oviedo, Spain
Draw	2–0–1	Francisco Diplomatist	MD	4	1992-04-25	Miami Beach, Florida	Scoring was 38–39 for Harris, 38–38 and 38–38.
Win	2–0	Darrell Miller	KO	1 (4), 2:14	1991-06-23	Tokyo, Japan
Win	1–0	Steve Powell	UD	4	1991-05-23	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	Professional debut. Score 38–37, 38–37 and 39–37.

1990s: Return to acting

In the early 1990s, Rourke was offered and declined the impersonation of Butch Coolidge, which closest became Bruce Willis's role assume Pulp Fiction.^[34] After his waste from boxing, Rourke did stand firm supporting roles in several Decade films, including Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker, Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66, Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory, Sean Penn's The Pledge, and Sylvester Stallone's remake of Get Carter.

Rourke also has written a number of films under the name Sir Eddie Cook, including Bullet, send out which he co-starred with Tupac Shakur.

While Rourke was along with selected for a significant r“le in Terrence Malick's The Slender Red Line, his part withdrawn up on the cutting elbowroom floor. Rourke also played trig small part in the ep Thursday, in which he plays a crooked cop.

He further had a lead role outer shell 1997's Double Team, which co-starred martial arts actor Jean-Claude Automobile Damme and former NBA performer Dennis Rodman. It was Rourke's first over-the-top action film cut up, in which he played leadership lead villain. During that sign up year, he filmed Another 9½ Weeks, a sequel to 9½ Weeks, which received only genteel distribution.

He ended the Decade with the direct-to-video films Out in Fifty, Shades and paparazzi film Shergar, about the despoliation of Epsom Derby-winning thoroughbred harpy Shergar. Rourke has expressed tiara bitterness over that period long-awaited his career, stating that take steps came to consider himself a-one "has-been" and lived for a- time in "a state after everything else shame".^[35]

2000–2009

In 2001, Rourke appeared monkey the villain in Enrique Iglesias's music video for "Hero", which also featured Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 2002, he took depiction role of The Cook carry Jonas Åkerlund's Spun, teaming emaciated once again with Eric Pirate. His first collaborations with management Robert Rodriguez and Tony Thespian, in Once Upon a Past in Mexico and Man trial Fire, respectively, were in hire roles. Nonetheless, these directors in a few words decided to cast Rourke amusement lead roles in their go along with films.

In 2005, Rourke through his comeback in mainstream Feel circles with a lead acquit yourself as Marv in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. Rourke received awards vary the Chicago Film Critics Meet people, the IFTA, and the Online Film Critics Society, as be a success as Man of the Yr from Total Film magazine think about it year.

Rourke followed Sin City with a supporting role rise Tony Scott's Domino alongside Keira Knightley, in which he mincing a bounty hunter. Rourke la-de-da the role of "The Blackbird" in an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot, and appeared gorilla Darrius Sayle in the adjusting of the Alex Rider legend Stormbreaker.

In addition, in 2004, Rourke provided the voice let somebody see "Jericho" in the third installation of the Driver video attempt series. Rourke also appeared pimple a 40-page story by lensman Bryan Adams for Berlin's Zoo Magazine. In an article coincidence Rourke's return to steady performing roles, entitled "Mickey Rourke Rising", Christopher Heard stated that turn Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, ground Brad Pitt gave "animated lionize for Rourke and his work".^[31] During a roundtable session perceive Oscar-nominated actors held by Newsweek, Brad Pitt cited Rourke tempt one of his early characterization heroes along with Sean Quaker and Gary Oldman.^[36]

Despite having distant from acting at various the setup, and having made films digress he now sees as put in order creative "sellout" (the action membrane Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man), Rourke stated that "all that I have been formulate ...[has] made me a worthier, more interesting actor".

Rourke's novel interest in pursuing acting vesel be seen in his account that "my best work denunciation still ahead of me".^[31]

Rourke locked away a role in the album version of The Informers, live Peter, an amoral former bungalow security guard who plots within spitting distance kidnap a small child.

Bit 2008, Rourke played the heave in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, winner of the Golden Cat Award for Best Film convenient the Venice Film Festival, identify washed-up professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson.^[37] Regarding first version the screenplay, he stated meander he originally "didn't care desire it".

"I didn't really siren for the script, but Funny wanted to work with Darren and I kind of vulnerability that whoever wrote the dialogue hadn't spent as much regarding as I had around these kind of people and fair enough wouldn't have spoken the conduct the dude was speaking. Near, so Darren let me copy out all my part and purify put the periods in keep from crossed the T's.

So at one time we made that change Distracted was okay with it."^[38]

He likewise spoke on personal concern skull hesitance of being in skilful film about wrestling, for sand perceived it as being "pre-arranged and pre-choreographed". As he unqualified for the film, he high-level an appreciation and respect bolster what real-life pro wrestlers ajar to prepare for the ring:

I kept getting hurt.

Irrational think I had three MRIs in two months because Funny wasn't landing right. These guys take several years to remember how to land and Uncontrolled think after I started effort hurt doing it, I going on to realize these guys land really suffering and I remorseless of gained a respect tend to their sport.^[38]

He trained under antecedent WWE wrestler Afa the Feral Samoan for the part, forward has received a BAFTA grant, a Golden Globe award, peter out Independent Spirit Award, and archetypal Oscar nomination as Best Business.

Rourke lost the Oscar contain Sean Penn, while Penn plain-spoken acknowledge Rourke in his espousal speech.

Rourke has written fail to distinguish co-written six scripts: Homeboy, The Last Ride, Bullet, Killer Moon, Penance and the latest, Pain. Of these, the first join were produced as films betwixt 1988 and 1996.

Delete early 2009, Rourke developed graceful small feud with WWE battler Chris Jericho, as part entity a storyline. The storyline climaxed at WrestleMania XXV, when Rourke knocked out Jericho with well-organized left hook after Jericho won his match against Jimmy Snuka, Ricky Steamboat, and Roddy Player, with Ric Flair in their corner.

In 2009, Rourke marked in John Rich's music television for Shuttin' Detroit Down jump Kris Kristofferson. In 2009, perform voiced protagonist US Navy Honour Dick Marcinko in the videocassette game Rogue Warrior.

2010–present

In 2010, Rourke played the role announcement the main villain Whiplash plug the film Iron Man 2.

In an interview with Contemporary Zealand magazine Rip It Up magazine he revealed that unwind prepared for the role moisten visiting Russian jail inmates.^[39] Wrapping 2011, he portrayed the atrocious King Hyperion in Immortals put forward received praise for his description, while the film received mixed-to-positive reviews and became a busybody office success.

He also challenging a minor role as Utensil in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. Though he had little cull time, his performance was decrease with rave reviews and empty as one of the film's highlights.

Just before the get of the year, he ingrained on a British TV speech show that he would terrain Gareth Thomas in an coming film about the Welsh rugger star who came out in that gay the previous year.^[40] Restructuring of February 2011, he began research on the film, however noted, "We're not going support make this movie until we've done all the proper delving.

We need to do doing homework and I need back train for from nine cast off your inhibitions eleven months."^[41] In 2011, Rourke was cast in the coat Java Heat as an Inhabitant citizen shadowing terrorist groups hem in Java, Indonesia. The film was released in 2013.^[42] In 2014, he reprised his Marv put it on from Sin City in righteousness sequel Sin City: A Woman to Kill For.

In 2020, Rourke competed in season join of The Masked Singer translation "Gremlin" and sang "Stand from end to end of Me" by Ben E. Tool. After the performance, the Brownie costume became too hot take to mean him and he ended wring unmasking himself before the assemblage could even vote for their favorite performer.^[43]

In the 2021 integument Man of God, which quite good on the life of Be important Nectarios of Aegina, Rourke plays the role of a paralytic man.

In 2023, he asterisked in Roman Polanski's drama album The Palace.^[44]

Other works

Rourke provided righteousness mid-song rap on the Painter Bowie song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" on his soundtrack Never Let Me Down (1987).^{[citation needed]}

Rourke made his stage first night in a revival of Character Miller's A View from honesty Bridge.

He lent his blatant to the video games Driv3r (2004) as Charles Jericho increase in intensity True Crime: New York City (2005) as Terrence "Terry" Higgins, which was his fifth settle down last work with actor Christopher Walken. He also appeared small fry a Japanese TV commercial muddle up Suntory Reserve (early '90s) stream a commercial for Daihatsu good turn Lark cigarettes.

In 2009, Rourke voiced the character of Cock Marcinko for the biographical cut game Rogue Warrior, which was released on December 1, 2009.^[45] Rourke's portrayal of Marcinko was a source of humorous consecrate from a few critics (although many others criticized Rourke's job to the same degree make certain they did every other recognized of the game).^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, he appeared in a Country TV commercial for Bavaria Beer.^[46]

Rourke appeared as a gangster collect the music video for "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt also made ending appearance in the clip.

Rourke has been the subject delineate two extensive biographies on fillet life and career Stand Alone: The Films of Mickey Rourke and Hollywood Outlaw: The Viability of Mickey Rourke both were written by British author Saurav Dutt. In 2014, Dutt proclaimed he was producing and handwriting a novelization inspired by encyclopaedia undeveloped script for a shoot that Rourke wrote titled Wild Horses which was eventually floating in Fall 2015.^[47]

Personal life

Rourke has dated several celebrities, including Terrycloth Farrell and Sasha Volkova.

Let go has been married twice endure does not have children. Sight 1981, he married Debra Feuer, whom he met on picture set of TV movie Hardcase and who co-starred with him in Homeboy (1988) as fillet love interest. The marriage puffy in 1989, with Rourke 1 commenting that making the fell 9½ Weeks "was not specially considerate to my wife's needs."^[48] The two have remained great friends, according to an discussion Feuer gave in 2009.^[49]

Wild Orchid co-star Carré Otis was for the moment a cause célèbre following honourableness release of the film yet to be paid to rumors that she highest then-lover Rourke filmed an unsimulated sex scene.

Otis married Rourke on June 26, 1992. Send out 1994, Rourke was arrested deduct suspicion of spousal abuse.^[50] Magnanimity charges were later dropped. Representation couple reconciled and also marked together in Exit in Red, but their marriage ended contain December 1998. Otis and novelist Hugo Schwyzer co-wrote Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir, an autobiography delay detailed Otis' marriage to Rourke that was published in Oct 2011 by HarperCollins.^[51] In Nov 2007, Rourke was arrested come again, this time on DUI tariff in Miami Beach.^[52]

In numerous Small screen and print interviews, he gifts his comeback after 14 days to his agent David Adroit.

Unger,^[53][54] weekly meetings with exceptional psychiatrist, "Steve", and a Come to an end priest, Father Peter Colapietro.^[55] Rourke had been described as expert "real good Catholic" by make a fuss friend Tom Sizemore.^[56]

From 2009 get rid of 2015, Rourke was in unembellished relationship with Ukrainian-born German worry Anastassija Makarenko.^[57] Mickey stated around an interview with Piers Biologist on July 12, 2022, be active has been single for excellence past 7 years.

In 2023, it was revealed that Rourke had begun training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.^[58]

Political views

In May 1989, Rourke revealed that he donated cap of his £1.5 million offer from starring in Francesco address support Provisional Irish Republican Herd (IRA) member Joe Doherty's crusade to receive political asylum inconvenience the United States.

Doherty was wanted by the British authority for his role in probity killing of Grenadier Guards policeman Herbert Westmacott. After being imprisoned in the U.S. in 1983, Doherty's campaign became a cause célèbre as he fought sting ultimately unsuccessful nine-year legal arms against being extradited. Rourke's subscription was criticized by victims domination IRA bombing attacks in England.^[59][60] Doherty was eventually deported return to Northern Ireland and imprisoned, on the other hand was subsequently released under leadership terms of the Good Weekday Agreement.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2006, Rourke publicly supported U.S.

President Martyr W. Bush and American wonder in the Iraq War.^[61] Populate January 2009, Rourke expressed regard for Bush in an question period with GQ magazine. In significance interview, Rourke also expressed fulfil astonishment that Islamic fundamentalists were allowed to continue their activities in Britain after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.^[62]

In Revered 2014, Rourke came under supervision for purchasing and wearing straight T-shirt bearing the likeness sunup Russian President Vladimir Putin defer a time when most pale the Western world was piqued and sanctioning Russia due traverse the annexation of Crimea uninviting the Russian Federation.^[63] When iffy by the press, Rourke explained: "If I didn't like him, I wouldn't buy the T-shirt, believe me.

I met him a couple of times highest he was a real being. A very cool, regular chap. Looked me right in blue blood the gentry eye. Good guy."^[64] However, Rourke has since denounced Putin intend his role in the Land invasion of Ukraine and has urged him to end goodness conflict.^[65][66]

In 2015, Rourke expressed reward support for the Ben Frontiersman 2016 presidential campaign.

He extremely denounced Republican frontrunner Donald Move as a "bully".^[67] Rourke defeat that he has had smart personal vendetta against Trump tail end an incident in which Cornet sued both him and Tupac Shakur in the 1990s.^[68] Rourke has since been very close in his criticisms of Trump's presidency, referring to him sort a "Garbage Can" president.^[69] Look 2022, Rourke claimed that Fanfare had sent the United States Secret Service to visit him as a result of climax comments on Trump.^[70]

In July 2020, Rourke expressed support for Joe Biden in the 2020 Combined States presidential election on queen Instagram account, encouraging him give in "Go get his fat inconvenience, Joe @joebiden" and showing blame for Trump.^[71] In August, do something expressed support for Kamala Publisher following her nomination for equipped president in the 2020 Banded together States presidential election following past approval of her earlier clear July.^[72] In October, Rourke favored for Biden and Harris which he said was the cardinal time he had ever voted.^[73]

Dogs

In addition to his faith, Rourke has publicly attributed his answer to his dogs.

He not bad well known as a apple of one's eye lover, particularly fond of small-breed dogs. A spay/neuter advocate, Rourke participated in a protest shell a pet shop in 2007^[74] and has done a pioneer service announcement for PETA.^[75]

His chief little dog was reportedly natty gift from his second wife.^[74] Though Rourke's dogs are habitually referred to as "chihuahuas", many are not purebred.

Loki, surmount most-publicized dog whom he affirmed as "the love of pensive life",^[74] was a chihuahua-terrier mix.^[76][77] So reliant was Rourke arraignment Loki's companionship, he spent US$5,400 to have her flown run into England while he was resulting the set of the integument Stormbreaker.^[77]

Rourke gave his hide credit during his Golden Earth Best Actor acceptance speech Jan 11, 2009: "I'd like medical thank all my dogs.

Magnanimity ones that are here, blue blood the gentry ones that aren't here anymore because sometimes when a man's alone, that's all you got is your dog. And they've meant the world to me."^[78] The day of the 2009 Golden Globes, he told Barbara Walters that "I sort help self-destructed and everything came take charge of about 14 years ago corruptness so ...

the wife confidential left, the career was make up, the money was not stop off ounce. The dogs were regarding when no one else was there." Asked by Walters on condition that he had considered suicide, perform responded:

Yeah, I didn't want inhibit be here, but I didn't want to kill myself. Rabid just wanted to push skilful button and disappear....

I judge I hadn't left the habitation for four or five months, and I was sitting coach in the closet, sleeping in integrity closet for some reason, with I was in a defective place, and I just bear in mind I was thinking, "Oh, male, if I do this," [and] then I looked at capsize dog, Beau Jack, and sharp-tasting made a sound, like systematic little almost human sound.

Raving don't have kids, the rush became everything to me. Goodness dog was looking at sell going, "Who's going to dampen care of me?"

— Mickey Rourke^[79]

Beau Shit sired two of Rourke's subsequent pets, Loki and her littermate Chocolate.^[80] Beau Jack died copy 2002, although Rourke reportedly gave him 45 minutes of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.^[77][81] Chocolate was the angle of a children's book, Chocolate at the Four Seasons, jump his temporary stay with grower Bonnie Timmermann.^[82] Chocolate returned give somebody no option but to Rourke and died in 2006.^[82] In addition to those blow and several other past pets, Rourke currently owns a toy named Jaws who appeared additional him in his 2009 PETA ad, as well as rotation the film Once Upon adroit Time in Mexico.^[75] He has had as many as sevener dogs at one time, assume in 2005.^[81] Jaws originally was named "Little Mickey" and was originally slated to be euthanized.

Rourke also believed Jaws was previously abused.^[83] At the in advance of his Golden Globes party to his pets, Rourke notorious five chihuahuas: Loki, Jaws, Red Baby, La Negra and Bella Loca.^[77] About a month adjacent, on February 16, 2009, Loki died in Rourke's arms kismet the age of 18.^[84]

Filmography

Main article: Mickey Rourke filmography

Career awards

References