Philip Andre Rourke Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, activist and former boxer. He has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City. In 2008, he portrayed a past-his-prime professional wrestler in the film The Wrestler, for which he received a 2009 Golden Globe award, a BAFTA award, and an Academy Award nomination.
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Philip Andre Rourke Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, activist and former boxer. He has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City. In 2008, he portrayed a past-his-prime professional wrestler in the film The Wrestler, for which he received a 2009 Golden Globe award, a BAFTA award, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, he appeared in the Fox television show The Masked Singer, where he donned the costume known as \”The Gremlin\” and was infamous for revealing himself rather than being voted off by audience members. Rourke’s father left the family when Mickey was young, and his mother married Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police officer with five sons, and moved Rourke, his younger brother, and their sister to South Florida. He graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1971. He was raised Catholic and still practices his faith. He is the son of Annette Rourke and Philip Andre, and he has a brother and a sister. His father was of Irish descent, his mother had Scottish ancestry, and Rourke was raised by his mother in Miami Beach, Florida. In his early years, he took up self-defense training at the Boys Club of Miami. At age 12, he won his first boxing match as a 112-pound flyweight, fighting some of his early matches under the name Phil Rourke.
In 1971, he had a small acting role in a Jay W. Jensen–directed school play, The Serpent. He never appeared in any other school productions until he quit playing the man in Deathwatch. In the 1980s, he starred in the comedy-drama Diner, the drama Rumble Fish, the crime-black-comedy film The Pope of Greenwich Village, and the erotic drama 9½ Weeks. He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart. In 1991, he teamed up with Don Johnson and Tom Sizemore in the cult classic action film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. In 1994, he retired from acting and had supporting roles in several films, including the drama The Rainmaker and the thriller-remake of Get Carter. He also appeared in Once Upon a Time in Mexico and the action thriller Man on Fire, playing the role of a corrupt lawyer. He appeared in several commercially successful films, such as the 2010 films Iron Man 2 and The Expendables, and the 2011 film Immortals. In 2011, he played the lead in the movie Iron Man 3 and the sequel, Iron Man 4. In 2012, he co-starred in the horror-thriller Angel Heart and the mystery film The Pledge, starring alongside Tom Hanks and Amy Adams. He co-wrote and co-produced the film Iron Man 5.
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