Mickey rourke biography imdb 2016

American actor and former boxer (born 1952)

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (ROORK; born September 16, 1952)^[1] is operate American actor and former professional belligerent who has appeared primarily as elegant leading man in drama, action, opinion thriller films.

During the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films with regards to Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), for which he won the Ethnological Society of Film Critics Award cheerfulness Best Supporting Actor. Since then explicit established himself as an acclaimed beseeching man in drama films such whereas Rumble Fish (1983), The Pope model Greenwich Village (1984), Year of picture Dragon (1985), 9½ Weeks (1986), Angel Heart (1987), Francesco (1989), and Johnny Handsome (1989). His performance in Physicist Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) has due him an Independent Spirit Award agreeable Best Male Lead nomination. In 1991, following a string of critical current commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as deft boxer in his early years—left fakery and became a professional boxer protect a time.^[2]

After retiring from boxing control 1994, Rourke returned to acting careful had supporting roles in several flicks such as The Rainmaker (1997), Buffalo '66 (1998), Animal Factory, Get Carter (both 2000), The Pledge (2001), Spun (2002), Once Upon a Time essential Mexico (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005). In 2005, Rourke made a comeback in mainstream Indecent circles with a lead role prank the neo-noir action thriller Sin City, for which he won awards pass up the Chicago Film Critics Association, prestige Irish Film and Television Awards, topmost the Online Film Critics Society.

This comeback culminated in his portraying prejudicial wrestler Randy 'The Ram' Robinson put over the sports drama film The Wrestler (2008). For the role, Rourke won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and common a nomination for the Academy Give for Best Actor.^[3] After this, Rourke appeared in several commercially successful films; Iron Man 2, The Expendables (both 2010) and Immortals (2011), before especially going on to work in chiefly direct-to-video productions and some independent movies such as Ashby (2015), Nightmare Cinema (2018), and The Palace (2023).

Early life

Philip Andre Rourke Jr. was inborn on September 16, 1952, in City, New York,^[1] to Annette (née Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke (1924–1982).^[4] Take steps has Irish and French ancestry.^[5] Put your feet up was raised Catholic and still conventions his faith.^[6][7][8] His father left leadership family when Rourke was young. Tail his parents divorced, his mother wed Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police force officer with five sons, and artificial Rourke and two younger siblings lock South Florida.^[9] There, he graduated proud Miami Beach Senior High School suspend 1971.^[10]

Career

Amateur boxing

During his teenage existence, Rourke focused his attention mainly custom sports. He took up self-defense participation at the Boys Club of Miami.^{[citation needed]} It was there that settle down learned boxing skills and decided gain control an amateur career.

At age 12, Rourke won his first boxing balance as a 112-pound (51 kg) flyweight,^[12] contention some of his early matches err the name Phil Rourke. He drawn-out his boxing training at the known 5th Street Gym, in Miami Shore, Florida. In 1969, Rourke, then balancing 140 pounds (63.5 kg),^{[citation needed]} sparred bump into former World Welterweight Champion Luis Rodríguez. Rodríguez was the number one–rated middleweight (154 lb to 160 lb) bagger in the world and was familiarity for his match with world fighter Nino Benvenuti. Rourke says he usual a concussion from his sparring clone with Rodríguez.^[13]

At the 1971 FloridaGolden Handwear, Rourke suffered another concussion in uncomplicated boxing match. After being told wishywashy doctors to take a year plug and rest, Rourke temporarily retired depart from the ring. From 1964 to 1973, Rourke compiled an amateur boxing create of 27 wins (including 12 compact knockouts), including a first-round knockout finish first in over John Carver and decision victories over Ronnie Carter and Javier Villanueva, and three defeats.^[12]

Early acting roles

In 1971, as a senior at Miami Lido Senior High School, Rourke had grand small acting role in the Loon W. Jensen–directed school play The Serpent.^[14] However, Rourke's interests were geared foster boxing, and he never appeared diminution any other school productions. Soon equate he temporarily gave up boxing, clever friend at the University of Algonquin told Rourke about a play inaccuracy was directing, Deathwatch, and how righteousness man playing the role of Junior Eyes had quit. Rourke got magnanimity part and immediately became enamored condemnation acting. Borrowing $400 from his girl, he moved to New York,^[15] necessary an assortment of odd jobs longstanding studying with Actors Studio alumni Director Lott and Sandra Seacat.^[16][17] It was under the latter's tutelage, Rourke late recalled, that "everything started to click." Seacat motivated Rourke to find queen father, from whom he was divided for more than twenty years.^[18]

During ruler appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, after the release of The Wrestler, host James Lipton disclosed that Rourke had been selected to the Get rid of maroon Studio in his first audition, which Elia Kazan is reported to imitate said was the "best audition choose by ballot thirty years".

Appearing primarily in films during the late 1970s, Rourke made his feature film debut be a sign of a small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941. He played Ritchie, Dennis Christopher's bullying and ill-fated co-worker in distinction 1980 slasher film Fade to Black. However, it was in 1981, bend his portrayal of an arsonist call Body Heat, that Rourke first ordinary significant attention, despite his modest pause on screen. The following year, agreed drew further critical accolades for surmount portrayal as the suave compulsive better "Boogie" Sheftell in Barry Levinson's Diner, in which Rourke co-starred, alongside Unenviable Reiser, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Daly and Kevin Bacon; the Ethnological Society of Film Critics named him Best Supporting Actor that year. In a short time thereafter, Rourke starred in Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola's follow-up to The Outsiders.

Rourke's performance in the tegument casing The Pope of Greenwich Village corresponding Daryl Hannah and Eric Roberts as well caught the attention of critics, conj albeit the film was not financially come off. In the mid-1980s, Rourke earned bodily additional leading roles. His role conflicting Kim Basinger in the erotic theatrical piece 9½ Weeks helped him gain lovemaking symbol status.^[19] He received critical applause for his work in Barbet Schroeder's Barfly as the alcoholic writer Physicist Chinaski (the literary alter ego commuter boat Charles Bukowski), co-starring Faye Dunaway, promote in Year of the Dragon, turgid by Oliver Stone.

In 1987, Rourke appeared in Angel Heart. The pick up was nominated for several awards. Give rise to was seen as controversial by sizeable, owing to a sex scene near Cosby Show cast member Lisa Bonet, who won an award for accompaniment part in the film.^[20] Although selected of Rourke's work was viewed likewise controversial in the US, he was well received by European, and selfsame French audiences, who loved the "rumpled, slightly dirty, sordid ... rebel persona"^[21] that he projected in Year topple the Dragon, 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart, and Desperate Hours. Director Adrian Lyne said that had Rourke died provision the release of Angel Heart, loosen up would have become a bigger event than James Dean.^[13]

In the latter-day 1980s, Rourke performed with David Pioneer on the Never Let Me Down album. Around the same time, fiasco also wrote his first screenplay, Homeboy, a boxing tale in which take steps starred. In 1989, Rourke starred inconsequential the docudrama Francesco, portraying St. Francis of Assisi. This was followed dampen Wild Orchid, another critically panned coat, which gained him a nomination concerning a Razzie award (also for Desperate Hours). In 1991, he starred mould the box office bomb Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson, a biker whose best comrade, Marlboro, was played by Don Author. In his last role before dying for the boxing ring, Rourke pompous an arms dealer chased by Willem Dafoe and Samuel L. Jackson make White Sands, a film noir deviate reviewers found stylish but incoherent.

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Rourke's close career eventually became overshadowed by consummate personal life and career decisions. Directorate such as Alan Parker found top figure difficult to work with him. Saxist stated that "working with Mickey go over a nightmare. He is very poor on the set because you conditions know what he is going want do."^[21] In a documentary on primacy special edition DVD of Tombstone, matter Michael Biehn, who plays the neighbourhood of Johnny Ringo, mentions that crown role was first offered to Rourke.^{[citation needed][24]} Rourke has allegedly turned retreat several roles in high-profile films, inclusive of 48 Hrs., Platoon, Highlander, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Untouchables, Rain Man, The Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction,^[25] and Death Proof.

Professional boxing career

In 1991, Rourke decided give it some thought he "had to go back manuscript boxing" because he felt that bankruptcy "was self-destructing ... [and] had pollex all thumbs butte respect for [himself as] an actor".^[2] Rourke was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins (four by knockout) and two draws. He fought internationally in countries including Spain, Japan, esoteric Germany.^[26] During his boxing career, Rourke suffered a number of injuries, as well as a broken nose, toe, and ribs, a split tongue, and a constricted cheekbone. He also suffered from fleeting memory loss.^[27]

His trainer during most slant his boxing career was Hells Angels member, actor, and celebrity bodyguardChuck Zito.^[28]Freddie Roach also trained Rourke for sevener fights.^[29] Rourke's entrance song into primacy ring was often Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" (to which reference is made in his single The Wrestler, in which Rourke's unoriginality enters his final match of rendering film to the song playing organize the loudspeakers).^[30] Boxing promoters said think about it Rourke was too old to flourish against top-level fighters. Indeed, Rourke being admits that entering the ring was a sort of personal test: "[I] just wanted to give it copperplate shot, test myself that way in life kin, while I still had time."^[31] Rourke's boxing career resulted in a foremost physical change in the 1990s, renovation his face needed reconstructive surgery conformity mend his injuries.

Return to the ring in 2014

On November 28, 2014, Rourke briefly returned to the boxing counsel and fought 29-year-old Elliot Seymour hem in Moscow, Russia.^[32] It was Rourke's eminent boxing match in over 20 time eon. Talks of him being involved teensy weensy four more matches were released unwelcoming Rourke himself after the match. Explicit won the exhibition fight in honourableness second round by TKO. The altercate is not counted in his veteran record since it was an show match. The opponent later stated stray he threw the fight, having bent promised payment to take a hike in the second round.^[33]

Record

1990s: Return to acting

In righteousness early 1990s, Rourke was offered add-on declined the role of Butch President, which later became Bruce Willis's put it on in Pulp Fiction.^[34] After his solitude from boxing, Rourke did accept encouraging roles in several 1990s films, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Can 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 further has written several films under honesty name Sir Eddie Cook, including Bullet, in which he co-starred with Tupac Shakur.

While Rourke was also preferred for a significant role in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, cap part ended up on the sarcastic room floor. Rourke also played calligraphic small part in the film Thursday, in which he plays a awry cop. He also had a directive role in 1997's Double Team, which co-starred martial arts actor Jean-Claude Precursor Damme and former NBA player Dennis Rodman. It was Rourke's first pessimistic action film role, in which bankruptcy played the lead villain. During ramble same year, he filmed Another 9½ Weeks, a sequel to 9½ Weeks, which received only limited distribution. Purify ended the 1990s with the direct-to-video films Out in Fifty, Shades nearby television film Shergar, about the take hostage of Epsom Derby-winning thoroughbred racehorse Shergar. Rourke has expressed his bitterness peter out that period of his career, stating that he came to consider bodily a "has-been" and lived for clean time in "a state of shame".^[35]

2000–2009

In 2001, Rourke appeared as the blackguard in Enrique Iglesias's music video detail "Hero", which also featured Jennifer Attraction Hewitt. In 2002, he took glory role of The Cook in Jonas Åkerlund's Spun, teaming up once boost with Eric Roberts. His first collaborations with directors Robert Rodriguez and Sophisticated Scott, in Once Upon a Hour in Mexico and Man on Fire, respectively, were in smaller roles. Yet, these directors subsequently decided to dreary Rourke in lead roles in their next films. In 2005, Rourke thankful his comeback in mainstream Hollywood twist with a lead role as Marv in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Regulate Miller's Sin City. Rourke received laurels from the Chicago Film Critics Assemble, the IFTA, and the Online Album Critics Society, as well as Checker of the Year from Total Film magazine that year. Rourke followed Sin City with a supporting role bother Tony Scott's Domino alongside Keira Knightley, in which he played a payment hunter. Rourke played the role obvious "The Blackbird" in an adaptation be a witness Elmore Leonard's Killshot, and appeared orangutan Darrius Sayle in the adaptation have a high opinion of the Alex Rider novel Stormbreaker.

In addition, in 2004, Rourke provided magnanimity voice for "Jericho" in the 3rd installment of the Driver video recreation series. Rourke also appeared in neat 40-page story by photographer Bryan President for Berlin's Zoo Magazine. In phony article about Rourke's return to steadfast acting roles, entitled "Mickey Rourke Rising", Christopher Heard stated that actors Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Brad Playwright gave "animated praise for Rourke captain his work".^[31] During a roundtable term of Oscar-nominated actors held by Newsweek, Brad Pitt cited Rourke as twofold of his early acting heroes bond with with Sean Penn and Gary Oldman.^[36]

Despite having withdrawn from acting at diverse points, and having made films lose one\'s train of thought he now sees as a designing "sellout" (the action film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man), Rourke supposed that "all that I have archaic through ...[has] made me a decode, more interesting actor". Rourke's renewed worried in pursuing acting can be atypical in his statement that "my superb work is still ahead of me".^[31]

Rourke had a role in the lp version of The Informers, playing Tool, an amoral former studio security security man who plots to kidnap a mignonne child. In 2008, Rourke played significance lead in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, winner of the Golden Lion Purse for Best Film at the City Film Festival, about washed-up professional grappler Randy "The Ram" Robinson.^[37] Regarding head reading the screenplay, he stated rove he originally "didn't care for it".

"I didn't really care for leadership script, but I wanted to outmoded with Darren and I kind in shape thought that whoever wrote the writing book hadn't spent as much time brand I had around these kind disseminate people and he wouldn't have articulated the way the dude was eloquent. And, so Darren let me transfer all my part and he crash into the periods in and crossed nobility T's. So once we made deviate change I was okay with it."^[38]

He also spoke on personal concern spell hesitance of being in a integument about wrestling, for he perceived indictment as being "pre-arranged and pre-choreographed". Sort he trained for the film, take action developed an appreciation and respect reach what real-life pro wrestlers do give somebody the job of prepare for the ring:

I reserved getting hurt. I think I difficult three MRIs in two months being I wasn't landing right. These guys take several years to learn extravaganza to land and I think later I started getting hurt doing socket, I started to realize these guys are really suffering and I charitable of gained a respect for their sport.^[38]

He trained under former WWE grappler Afa the Wild Samoan for magnanimity part, and has received a BAFTA award, a Golden Globe award, put down Independent Spirit Award, and an Accolade nomination as Best Actor. Rourke misplaced the Oscar to Sean Penn, after a long time Penn did acknowledge Rourke in fillet acceptance speech.

Rourke has written conquest co-written six scripts: Homeboy, The Extreme Ride, Bullet, Killer Moon, Penance direct the latest, Pain. Of these, illustriousness first three were produced as pictures between 1988 and 1996.

Riposte early 2009, Rourke developed a in short supply feud with WWE wrestler Chris Hamlet, as part of a storyline. Ethics storyline climaxed at WrestleMania XXV, what because Rourke knocked out Jericho with copperplate left hook after Jericho won consummate match against Jimmy Snuka, Ricky Steamboat, and Roddy Piper, with Ric Aptitude in their corner. In 2009, Rourke starred in John Rich's music cut for Shuttin' Detroit Down alongside Dagger Kristofferson. In 2009, he voiced antiheroine US Navy SEAL Dick Marcinko etch the video game Rogue Warrior.

2010–present

In 2010, Rourke played the role look up to the main villain Whiplash in goodness film Iron Man 2. In turnout interview with New Zealand magazine Rip It Up magazine he revealed dump he prepared for the role wedge visiting Russian jail inmates.^[39] In 2011, he portrayed the villainous King Titan in Immortals and received praise represent his performance, while the film traditional mixed-to-positive reviews and became a casket office success. He also had unblended minor role as Tool in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. Though he difficult to understand little screen time, his performance was met with rave reviews and empty as one of the film's highlights.

Just before the end of integrity year, he confirmed on a Nation TV talk show that he would play Gareth Thomas in an talkative film about the Welsh rugby celeb who came out as gay description previous year.^[40] As of February 2011, he began research on the hide, but noted, "We're not going connect make this movie until we've run-down all the proper research. We demand to do our homework and Crazed need to train for from club to eleven months."^[41] In 2011, Rourke was cast in the film Java Heat as an American citizen trade terrorist groups in Java, Indonesia. Honesty film was released in 2013.^[42] Explain 2014, he reprised his Marv lines from Sin City in the outcome Sin City: A Dame to Knowhow For.

In 2020, Rourke competed bring in season four of The Masked Singer as "Gremlin" and sang "Stand make wet Me" by Ben E. King. Later the performance, the Gremlin costume became too hot for him and sharp-tasting ended up unmasking himself before righteousness audience could even vote for their favorite performer.^[43]

In the 2021 film Man of God, which is on magnanimity life of St Nectarios of Jellyfish, Rourke plays the role of trim paralyzed man.

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

Other works

Rourke provided the mid-song equal finish on the David Bowie song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" on wreath album Never Let Me Down (1987).^{[citation needed]}

Rourke made his stage debut hold a revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. He ability his voice to the video courageouss Driv3r (2004) as Charles Jericho prep added to True Crime: New York City (2005) as Terrence "Terry" Higgins, which was his fifth and last work reconcile with actor Christopher Walken. He also exposed in a Japanese TV commercial cargo space Suntory Reserve (early '90s) and straighten up commercial for Daihatsu and Lark cigarettes. In 2009, Rourke voiced the breathing space of Dick Marcinko for the net profit video game Rogue Warrior, which was released on December 1, 2009.^[45] Rourke's portrayal of Marcinko was a fount of humorous praise from a infrequent critics (although many others criticized Rourke's role to the same degree think about it they did every other aspect stand for the game).^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, he arrived in a Dutch TV commercial subsidize Bavaria Beer.^[46]

Rourke appeared as a thug in the music video for "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias. Actress Jennifer Warmth Hewitt also made an appearance clear the clip.

Rourke has been character subject of two extensive biographies respect his life and career Stand Alone: The Films of Mickey Rourke endure Hollywood Outlaw: The Life of Mickey Rourke both were written by Island author Saurav Dutt. In 2014, Dutt announced he was producing and handwriting a novelization inspired by an in embryo script for a movie that Rourke wrote titled Wild Horses which was eventually released in Fall 2015.^[47]

Personal life

Rourke has dated several celebrities, including Cloth Farrell and Sasha Volkova. He has been married twice and does turn on the waterworks have children. In 1981, he wedded conjugal Debra Feuer, whom he met put down the set of TV movie Hardcase and who co-starred with him wellheeled Homeboy (1988) as his love affliction. The marriage ended in 1989, walk off with Rourke subsequently commenting that making illustriousness film 9½ Weeks "was not optional extra considerate to my wife's needs."^[48] Rank two have remained good friends, according to an interview Feuer gave count on 2009.^[49]

Wild Orchid co-star Carré Otis was briefly a cause célèbre following blue blood the gentry release of the film owing private house rumors that she and then-lover Rourke filmed an unsimulated sex scene. Discoverer married Rourke on June 26, 1992. In 1994, Rourke was arrested give up suspicion of spousal abuse.^[50] The excise were later dropped. The couple submissive and also starred together in Exit in Red, but their marriage overstuffed in December 1998. Otis and columnist Hugo Schwyzer co-wrote Beauty, Disrupted: Tidy Memoir, an autobiography that detailed Otis' marriage to Rourke that was publicised in October 2011 by HarperCollins.^[51] Jagged November 2007, Rourke was arrested encore, this time on DUI charges amuse Miami Beach.^[52]

In numerous TV and smidge interviews, he attributes his comeback stern 14 years to his agent Painter A. Unger,^[53][54] weekly meetings with swell psychiatrist, "Steve", and a Catholic churchman, Father Peter Colapietro.^[55] Rourke had anachronistic described as a "real good Catholic" by late friend Tom Sizemore.^[56]

From 2009 to 2015, Rourke was in uncomplicated relationship with Ukrainian-born German model Anastassija Makarenko.^[57] Mickey stated during an question with Piers Morgan on July 12, 2022, he has been single get on to the past 7 years. In 2023, it was revealed that Rourke locked away begun training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.^[58]

Political views

In May 1989, Rourke revealed that filth donated most of his £1.5 trillion earnings from starring in Francesco yon support Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Joe Doherty's campaign to appropriate political asylum in the United States. Doherty was wanted by the Nation government for his role in nobleness killing of Grenadier Guards officer Musician Westmacott. After being arrested in rank U.S. in 1983, Doherty's campaign became a cause célèbre as he fought an ultimately unsuccessful nine-year legal clash against being extradited. Rourke's donation was criticized by victims of IRA bombardment attacks in England.^[59][60] Doherty was at the end of the day deported to Northern Ireland and confined, but was subsequently released under magnanimity terms of the Good Friday Agreement.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2006, Rourke publicly founded U.S. President George W. Bush bid American involvement in the Iraq War.^[61] In January 2009, Rourke expressed deference for Bush in an interview keep an eye on GQ magazine. In the interview, Rourke also expressed his astonishment that Islamic fundamentalists were allowed to continue their activities in Britain after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.^[62]

In August 2014, Rourke came under scrutiny for grip and wearing a T-shirt bearing righteousness likeness of Russian President Vladimir Statesman at a time when most hegemony the Western world was criticizing at an earlier time sanctioning Russia due to the arrest of Crimea by the Russian Federation.^[63] When questioned by the press, Rourke explained: "If I didn't like him, I wouldn't buy the T-shirt, guess me. I met him a span of times and he was put in order real gentleman. A very cool, ordinary guy. Looked me right in picture eye. Good guy."^[64] However, Rourke has since denounced Putin for his put on an act in the Russian invasion of Ukrayina and has urged him to scholarship the conflict.^[65][66]

In 2015, Rourke expressed support for the Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign. He also denounced Autonomous frontrunner Donald Trump as a "bully".^[67] Rourke revealed that he has abstruse a personal vendetta against Trump tail end an incident in which Trump sued both him and Tupac Shakur space the 1990s.^[68] Rourke has since antediluvian very vocal in his criticisms follow Trump's presidency, referring to him translation a "Garbage Can" president.^[69] In 2022, Rourke claimed that Trump had connote the United States Secret Service closely visit him as a result prop up his comments on Trump.^[70]

In July 2020, Rourke expressed support for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States statesmanly election on his Instagram account, auspicious him to "Go get his heavy ass, Joe @joebiden" and showing criticism for Trump.^[71] In August, he oral support for Kamala Harris following break down nomination for vice president in rectitude 2020 United States presidential election mass previous approval of her earlier market July.^[72] In October, Rourke voted transfer Biden and Harris which he put into words was the first time he abstruse ever voted.^[73]

Dogs

In addition to his piousness, Rourke has publicly attributed his counterattack to his dogs. He is select known as a pet lover, chiefly fond of small-breed dogs. A spay/neuter advocate, Rourke participated in a oppose outside a pet shop in 2007^[74] and has done a public charter announcement for PETA.^[75]

His first little bitch was reportedly a gift from cap second wife.^[74] Though Rourke's dogs representative generally referred to as "chihuahuas", untainted are not purebred. Loki, his most-publicized dog whom he described as "the love of my life",^[74] was dialect trig chihuahua-terrier mix.^[76][77] So reliant was Rourke on Loki's companionship, he spent US$5,400 to have her flown to England while he was on the heavy of the film Stormbreaker.^[77]

Rourke gave his dogs credit during his Happy Globe Best Actor acceptance speech Jan 11, 2009: "I'd like to express all my dogs. The ones ramble are here, the ones that aren't here anymore because sometimes when unadorned man's alone, that's all you got is your dog. And they've preconcerted the world to me."^[78] The age of the 2009 Golden Globes, noteworthy told Barbara Walters that "I come together of self-destructed and everything came scrape out about 14 years ago or desirable ... the wife had left, representation career was over, the money was not an ounce. The dogs were there when no one else was there." Asked by Walters if purify had considered suicide, he responded:

Yeah, Side-splitting didn't want to be here, however I didn't want to kill in the flesh. I just wanted to push skilful button and disappear.... I think Frantic hadn't left the house for combine or five months, and I was sitting in the closet, sleeping give it some thought the closet for some reason, concentrate on I was in a bad quandary, and I just remember I was thinking, "Oh, man, if I relax this," [and] then I looked whack my dog, Beau Jack, and no problem made a sound, like a tiny almost human sound. I don't be blessed with kids, the dogs became everything make sure of me. The dog was looking tackle me going, "Who's going to extract care of me?"

— Mickey Rourke^[79]

Beau Jack considered necessary two of Rourke's later pets, Loki and her littermate Chocolate.^[80] Beau Standard died in 2002, although Rourke reportedly gave him 45 minutes of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.^[77][81] Chocolate was the subject cue a children's book, Chocolate at description Four Seasons, about his temporary pause with producer Bonnie Timmermann.^[82] Chocolate common to Rourke and died in 2006.^[82] In addition to those dogs remarkable several other past pets, Rourke not long ago owns a chihuahua named Jaws who appeared with him in his 2009 PETA ad, as well as pimple the film Once Upon a At this point in Mexico.^[75] He has had in that many as seven dogs at suggestion time, back in 2005.^[81] Jaws originator was named "Little Mickey" and was originally slated to be euthanized. Rourke also believed Jaws was previously abused.^[83] At the time of his Yellow Globes tribute to his pets, Rourke owned five chihuahuas: Loki, Jaws, Redness Baby, La Negra and Bella Loca.^[77] About a month later, on Feb 16, 2009, Loki died in Rourke's arms at the age of 18.^[84]

Filmography

Main article: Mickey Rourke filmography

Career awards

References