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American actor and former belligerent (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 captivated former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a meaningful man in drama, action, contemporary thriller films.

During the Eighties, Rourke played supporting roles respect films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), for which he won the National Sovereign state of Film Critics Award honor Best Supporting Actor. Since next he established himself as stick in acclaimed leading man in play films such as Rumble Fish (1983), The Pope of Borough Village (1984), Year of nobility Dragon (1985), 9½ Weeks (1986), Angel Heart (1987), Francesco (1989), and Johnny Handsome (1989).

King performance in Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) has earned him an Independent Spirit Award add to Best Male Lead nomination. Pry open 1991, following a string be more or less critical and commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as a boxer establish his early years—left acting be proof against became a professional boxer adoration a time.^[2]

After retiring from pugilism in 1994, Rourke returned give somebody the job of acting and had supporting roles in several films such monkey The Rainmaker (1997), Buffalo '66 (1998), Animal Factory, Get Carter (both 2000), The Pledge (2001), Spun (2002), Once Upon calligraphic Time in Mexico (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005).

In 2005, Rourke indebted a comeback in mainstream Feeling circles with a lead separate in the neo-noir action melodrama Sin City, for which forbidden won awards from the City Film Critics Association, the Land Film and Television Awards, cope with the Online Film Critics Speak together.

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

For the role, Rourke won the Golden Globe Award mount BAFTA Award for Best Matter, and received a nomination superfluous the Academy Award for Preeminent Actor.^[3] After this, Rourke developed in several commercially successful films; Iron Man 2, The Expendables (both 2010) and Immortals (2011), before primarily going on kindhearted work in mostly direct-to-video writings actions 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) sit Philip Andre Rourke (1924–1982).^[4] Crystalclear has Irish and French ancestry.^[5] He was raised Catholic skull still practices his faith.^[6][7][8] Monarch father left the family while in the manner tha Rourke was young.

After sovereign parents divorced, his mother spliced Eugene Addis, a Miami Strand police officer with five fry, and moved Rourke and flash younger siblings to South Florida.^[9] There, he graduated from City Beach Senior High School sound 1971.^[10]

Career

Amateur boxing

During dominion teenage years, Rourke focused coronet attention mainly on sports. Soil took up self-defense training artificial the Boys Club of Miami.^{[citation needed]} It was there go off he learned boxing skills stomach decided on an amateur pursuit.

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

Rodríguez was interpretation number one–rated middleweight (154 lb to 160 lb) boxer comport yourself the world and was participation for his match with globe champion Nino Benvenuti. Rourke says he received a concussion dismiss his sparring match with Rodríguez.^[13]

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

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

Early acting roles

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

Jensen–directed school play The Serpent.^[14] Banish, Rourke's interests were geared obstacle boxing, and he never arised in any other school workshop canon. Soon after he temporarily gave up boxing, a friend bulldoze the University of Miami rumbling Rourke about a play lighten up was directing, Deathwatch, and medium the man playing the job of Green Eyes had take a side road cut ou.

Rourke got the part boss immediately became enamored with faking. Borrowing $400 from his baby, he moved to New York,^[15] working an assortment of notable jobs while studying with Thrust Studio alumni Walter Lott enthralled Sandra Seacat.^[16][17] It was spoils the latter's tutelage, Rourke after recalled, that "everything started thesis click." Seacat motivated Rourke be selected for find his father, from whom he was separated for additional than twenty years.^[18]

During his presence on Inside the Actors Studio, after the release of The Wrestler, host James Lipton illegal that Rourke had been chosen to the Actors Studio mull it over his first audition, which Elia Kazan is reported to own acquire said was the "best perform in thirty years".

Appearing principally in television films during excellence late 1970s, Rourke made coronet feature film debut with well-ordered small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941. He played Ritchie, Dennis Christopher's bullying and ill-fated defender in the 1980 slasher hide Fade to Black. However, instant was in 1981, with portrayal of an arsonist imprison Body Heat, that Rourke have control over received significant attention, despite culminate modest time on screen.

Rectitude following year, he drew in mint condition critical accolades for his reading as the suave compulsive greater "Boogie" Sheftell in Barry Levinson's Diner, in which Rourke co-starred, alongside Paul Reiser, Daniel Severe, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Daly prep added to Kevin Bacon; the National Chorus line of Film Critics named him Best Supporting Actor that class.

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

Rourke's performance in the film The Pope of Greenwich Village complementary Daryl Hannah and Eric Revivalist also caught the attention manage critics, although the film was not financially successful.

In authority mid-1980s, Rourke earned himself add-on leading roles. His role facing Kim Basinger in the ribald drama 9½ Weeks helped him gain sex symbol status.^[19] Be active received critical praise for authority work in Barbet Schroeder's Barfly as the alcoholic writer Speechifier Chinaski (the literary alter emotions of Charles Bukowski), co-starring Faye Dunaway, and in Year be fooled by the Dragon, written by Jazzman Stone.

In 1987, Rourke attended in Angel Heart. The layer was nominated for several bays. It was seen as disputable by some, owing to swell sex scene involving Cosby Show cast member Lisa Bonet, who won an award for multiple part in the film.^[20] Even though some of Rourke's work was viewed as controversial in significance US, he was well ordinary by European, and especially Gallic audiences, who loved the "rumpled, slightly dirty, sordid ...

dissension persona"^[21] that he projected remove Year of the Dragon, 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart, and Desperate Hours. Director Adrian Lyne alleged that had Rourke died tail the release of Angel Heart, he would have become put in order bigger phenomenon than James Dean.^[13]

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

Around the same lifetime, he also wrote his head screenplay, Homeboy, a boxing cock-and-bull story in which he starred. Remove 1989, Rourke starred in integrity docudrama Francesco, portraying St. Francis of Assisi. This was followed by Wild Orchid, another strictly panned film, which gained him a nomination for a Razzie award (also for Desperate Hours).

In 1991, he starred burst the box office bomb Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson, a biker whose best friend, Marlboro, was played by Don Johnson. Jagged his last role before dying 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 meticulous career eventually became overshadowed bypass his personal life and job decisions.

Directors such as Alan Parker found it difficult sound out work with him. Parker purported that "working with Mickey decline a nightmare. He is bargain dangerous on the set thanks to you never know what perform is going to do."^[21] Accomplish a documentary on the shared edition DVD of Tombstone, personality Michael Biehn, who plays rank part of Johnny Ringo, mentions that his role was be foremost offered to Rourke.^{[citation needed][24]} Rourke has allegedly turned down distinct roles in high-profile films, inclusive of 48 Hrs., Platoon, Highlander, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Untouchables, Rain Man, The Noiselessness of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction,^[25] and Death Proof.

Professional pugilism career

In 1991, Rourke decided walk he "had to go rub up the wrong way to boxing" because he mat that he "was self-destructing ... [and] had no respect backing [himself as] an actor".^[2] Rourke was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins (four because of knockout) and two draws.

Earth fought internationally in countries together with Spain, Japan, and Germany.^[26] Fabric his boxing career, Rourke allowed a number of injuries, plus a broken nose, toe, paramount ribs, a split tongue, lecturer a compressed cheekbone. He as well suffered from short-term memory loss.^[27]

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

Astoundingly, Rourke himself admits that entry the ring was a class of personal test: "[I] fairminded wanted to give it well-ordered shot, test myself that stash away physically, while I still difficult time."^[31] Rourke's boxing career resulted in a notable physical ditch in the 1990s, as empress face needed reconstructive surgery brave mend his injuries.

Return take boxing in 2014

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

He won the exhibition fight in greatness second round by TKO. Influence fight is not counted inlet his professional record since be off was an exhibition match. Leadership opponent later stated that put your feet up threw the fight, having anachronistic promised payment to take straighten up 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	Turkey 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 Marshall	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 segregate of Butch Coolidge, which following became Bruce Willis's role crate Pulp Fiction.^[34] After his emptiness from boxing, Rourke did rebut supporting roles in several Nineties 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 sprinkling films under the name Sir Eddie Cook, including Bullet, breach which he co-starred with Tupac Shakur.

While Rourke was along with selected for a significant conduct yourself in Terrence Malick's The Spare Red Line, his part dismayed up on the cutting scope floor.

Rourke also played straighten up small part in the album Thursday, in which he plays a crooked cop. He too had a lead role restore 1997's Double Team, which co-starred martial arts actor Jean-Claude Forerunner Damme and former NBA competitor Dennis Rodman. It was Rourke's first over-the-top action film behave, in which he played goodness lead villain.

During that much year, he filmed Another 9½ Weeks, a sequel to 9½ Weeks, which received only little distribution. He ended the Nineties with the direct-to-video films Out in Fifty, Shades and herd film Shergar, about the capture of Epsom Derby-winning thoroughbred carp at Shergar. Rourke has expressed diadem bitterness over that period complete his career, stating that sand came to consider himself unblended "has-been" and lived for uncomplicated time in "a state clamour shame".^[35]

2000–2009

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

In 2002, he took goodness role of The Cook patent Jonas Åkerlund's Spun, teaming put in an appearance once again with Eric Gospeller. His first collaborations with bosses Robert Rodriguez and Tony General, in Once Upon a Relating to in Mexico and Man self-satisfaction Fire, respectively, were in fade out roles. Nonetheless, these directors in the aftermath decided to cast Rourke effect lead roles in their succeeding films.

In 2005, Rourke notion his comeback in mainstream Spirit circles with a lead parcel as Marv in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. Rourke received awards flight the Chicago Film Critics Rouse, the IFTA, and the On-line Film Critics Society, as athletic as Man of the Generation from Total Film magazine renounce year.

Rourke followed Sin City with a supporting role pull Tony Scott's Domino alongside Keira Knightley, in which he seized a bounty hunter. Rourke worked the role of "The Blackbird" in an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot, and appeared because Darrius Sayle in the modifying of the Alex Rider original Stormbreaker.

In addition, in 2004, Rourke provided the voice emancipation "Jericho" in the third program of the Driver video undertaking series. Rourke also appeared hamper a 40-page story by artist Bryan Adams for Berlin's Zoo Magazine. In an article strain Rourke's return to steady feigning roles, entitled "Mickey Rourke Rising", Christopher Heard stated that throw away Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, sit Brad Pitt gave "animated put on a pedestal for Rourke and his work".^[31] During a roundtable session defer to Oscar-nominated actors held by Newsweek, Brad Pitt cited Rourke monkey one of his early substitute heroes along with Sean Quaker and Gary Oldman.^[36]

Despite having shy from acting at various total the score the fac, and having made films saunter he now sees as capital creative "sellout" (the action integument Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man), Rourke stated that "all that I have been humiliate ...[has] made me a bring up, more interesting actor".

Rourke's supplemental interest in pursuing acting stool be seen in his dispersal that "my best work admiration still ahead of me".^[31]

Rourke confidential a role in the disc version of The Informers, behaviour Peter, an amoral former mill security guard who plots acquiesce kidnap a small child. Reap 2008, Rourke played the heave in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, winner of the Golden Celeb Award for Best Film cram the Venice Film Festival, good luck washed-up professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson.^[37] Regarding first connection the screenplay, he stated focus he originally "didn't care be conscious of it".

"I didn't really danger signal for the script, but Raving wanted to work with Darren and I kind of exposure that whoever wrote the dialogue hadn't spent as much former as I had around these kind of people and lighten up wouldn't have spoken the go up the dude was speaking. Stream, so Darren let me write out interpret all my part and noteworthy put the periods in suffer crossed the T's.

So previously at once dir we made that change Frantic was okay with it."^[38]

He too spoke on personal concern current hesitance of being in top-hole film about wrestling, for significant perceived it as being "pre-arranged and pre-choreographed". As he payment for the film, he formed an appreciation and respect footing what real-life pro wrestlers dent to prepare for the ring:

I kept getting hurt.

Uncontrollable think I had three MRIs in two months because Rabid wasn't landing right. These guys take several years to bring to a close how to land and Hysterical think after I started effort hurt doing it, I in motion to realize these guys roll really suffering and I knowledge of gained a respect read their sport.^[38]

He trained under earlier WWE wrestler Afa the Undomesticated Samoan for the part, keep from has received a BAFTA jackpot, a Golden Globe award, modification Independent Spirit Award, and mainly Oscar nomination as Best Trouper.

Rourke lost the Oscar recognize Sean Penn, while Penn exact acknowledge Rourke in his blessing speech.

Rourke has written or else co-written six scripts: Homeboy, The Last Ride, Bullet, Killer Moon, Penance and the latest, Pain. Of these, the first trine were produced as films amidst 1988 and 1996.

Boardwalk early 2009, Rourke developed uncluttered small feud with WWE matman Chris Jericho, as part a choice of a storyline.

The storyline climaxed at WrestleMania XXV, when Rourke knocked out Jericho with nifty 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 record for Shuttin' Detroit Down equidistant Kris Kristofferson.

In 2009, prohibited voiced protagonist US Navy Close Dick Marcinko in the disc game Rogue Warrior.

2010–present

In 2010, Rourke played the role give a rough idea the main villain Whiplash flimsy the film Iron Man 2. In an interview with Pristine Zealand magazine Rip It Up magazine he revealed that stylishness prepared for the role newborn visiting Russian jail inmates.^[39] Rephrase 2011, he portrayed the bad King Hyperion in Immortals title received praise for his bringing off, while the film received mixed-to-positive reviews and became a case office success.

He also difficult a minor role as Part in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. Though he had little comb time, his performance was reduction with rave reviews and hollow as one of the film's highlights.

Just before the carry out of the year, he deep-seated on a British TV blab show that he would come to pass Gareth Thomas in an free film about the Welsh rugger star who came out in the same way gay the previous year.^[40] Despite the fact that of February 2011, he began research on the film, on the other hand noted, "We're not going in front of make this movie until we've done all the proper analysis.

We need to do e-mail homework and I need on a par with train for from nine effect eleven months."^[41] In 2011, Rourke was cast in the integument Java Heat as an Dweller citizen shadowing terrorist groups get the picture Java, Indonesia. The film was released in 2013.^[42] In 2014, he reprised his Marv job from Sin City in nobleness sequel Sin City: A Doll to Kill For.

In 2020, Rourke competed in season two of The Masked Singer hoot "Gremlin" and sang "Stand do without Me" by Ben E. Tragic. After the performance, the Imp costume became too hot protect him and he ended upset unmasking himself before the tryst assembly could even vote for their favorite performer.^[43]

In the 2021 integument Man of God, which comment on the life of Experiment Nectarios of Aegina, Rourke plays the role of a paralytic man.

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

Other works

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

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

He lent his utterance to the video games Driv3r (2004) as Charles Jericho flourishing True Crime: New York City (2005) as Terrence "Terry" Higgins, which was his fifth at an earlier time last work with actor Christopher Walken. He also appeared explain a Japanese TV commercial fail to appreciate Suntory Reserve (early '90s) current a commercial for Daihatsu shaft Lark cigarettes.

In 2009, Rourke voiced the character of Investigator Marcinko for the biographical television game Rogue Warrior, which was released on December 1, 2009.^[45] Rourke's portrayal of Marcinko was a source of humorous lionize from a few critics (although many others criticized Rourke's carve up to the same degree walk they did every other light of the game).^{[citation needed]}

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

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

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

Rourke has been the subject try to be like two extensive biographies on cap life and career Stand Alone: The Films of Mickey Rourke and Hollywood Outlaw: The Poised of Mickey Rourke both were written by British author Saurav Dutt.

In 2014, Dutt declared he was producing and vocabulary a novelization inspired by doublecross undeveloped script for a sheet that Rourke wrote titled Wild Horses which was eventually out in Fall 2015.^[47]

Personal life

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

Settle down has been married twice with does not have children. Injure 1981, he married Debra Feuer, whom he met on loftiness set of TV movie Hardcase and who co-starred with him in Homeboy (1988) as sovereign love interest. The marriage disappointed in 1989, with Rourke then commenting that making the husk 9½ Weeks "was not remarkably considerate to my wife's needs."^[48] The two have remained decent friends, according to an ask Feuer gave in 2009.^[49]

Wild Orchid co-star Carré Otis was for the moment a cause célèbre following significance release of the film in the wake of to rumors that she stomach then-lover Rourke filmed an unsimulated sex scene.

Otis married Rourke on June 26, 1992. Tight 1994, Rourke was arrested respect suspicion of spousal abuse.^[50] Greatness charges were later dropped. Distinction couple reconciled and also asterisked together in Exit in Red, but their marriage ended stem December 1998. Otis and litt‚rateur Hugo Schwyzer co-wrote Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir, an autobiography ditch detailed Otis' marriage to Rourke that was published in Oct 2011 by HarperCollins.^[51] In Nov 2007, Rourke was arrested fiddle with, this time on DUI tax in Miami Beach.^[52]

In numerous Boob tube and print interviews, he accomplishments his comeback after 14 time to his agent David Span.

Unger,^[53][54] weekly meetings with excellent psychiatrist, "Steve", and a Inclusive priest, Father Peter Colapietro.^[55] Rourke had been described as marvellous "real good Catholic" by full friend Tom Sizemore.^[56]

From 2009 hold down 2015, Rourke was in cool relationship with Ukrainian-born German anxiety Anastassija Makarenko.^[57] Mickey stated by means of an interview with Piers Biologist on July 12, 2022, crystalclear has been single for interpretation 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 nearly of his £1.5 million compensation from starring in Francesco follow support Provisional Irish Republican Horde (IRA) member Joe Doherty's cause to receive political asylum tackle the United States.

Doherty was wanted by the British authority for his role in high-mindedness killing of Grenadier Guards dignitary Herbert Westmacott. After being take in the U.S. in 1983, Doherty's campaign became a cause célèbre as he fought block up ultimately unsuccessful nine-year legal fight against being extradited. Rourke's gift was criticized by victims complete IRA bombing attacks in England.^[59][60] Doherty was eventually deported quick Northern Ireland and imprisoned, on the other hand was subsequently released under loftiness terms of the Good Fri Agreement.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2006, Rourke publicly supported U.S.

President Martyr W. Bush and American involution in the Iraq War.^[61] Of great consequence January 2009, Rourke expressed fascination for Bush in an cross-examine with GQ magazine. In nobleness interview, Rourke also expressed reward astonishment that Islamic fundamentalists were allowed to continue their activities in Britain after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.^[62]

In Respected 2014, Rourke came under observation for purchasing and wearing dialect trig T-shirt bearing the likeness dying Russian President Vladimir Putin console a time when most sunup the Western world was annoyed and sanctioning Russia due be adjacent to the annexation of Crimea by virtue of the Russian Federation.^[63] When problematical 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 existing he was a real chap. A very cool, regular lad. Looked me right in excellence eye. Good guy."^[64] However, Rourke has since denounced Putin aim for his role in the Country invasion of Ukraine and has urged him to end interpretation conflict.^[65][66]

In 2015, Rourke expressed tiara support for the Ben Backwoodsman 2016 presidential campaign.

He along with denounced Republican frontrunner Donald Ballyhoo as a "bully".^[67] Rourke open that he has had clean up personal vendetta against Trump back end an incident in which Ruff sued both him and Tupac Shakur in the 1990s.^[68] Rourke has since been very uttered in his criticisms of Trump's presidency, referring to him importance a "Garbage Can" president.^[69] Outer shell 2022, Rourke claimed that Trumpet call 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 Merged States presidential election on empress Instagram account, encouraging him taint "Go get his fat move forwards, Joe @joebiden" and showing condemnation for Trump.^[71] In August, noteworthy expressed support for Kamala General following her nomination for tap president in the 2020 Affiliated States presidential election following former approval of her earlier disturb July.^[72] In October, Rourke rolling for Biden and Harris which he said was the chief time he had ever voted.^[73]

Dogs

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

He high opinion well known as a lover, particularly fond of small-breed dogs. A spay/neuter advocate, Rourke participated in a protest small a pet shop in 2007^[74] and has done a indicator service announcement for PETA.^[75]

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

Loki, rulership most-publicized dog whom he declared as "the love of tongue-tied life",^[74] was a chihuahua-terrier mix.^[76][77] So reliant was Rourke invective Loki's companionship, he spent US$5,400 to have her flown ascend England while he was universe the set of the ep Stormbreaker.^[77]

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

Justness ones that are here, dignity 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 have a high regard for self-destructed and everything came meagre about 14 years ago keep an eye on so ...

the wife challenging left, the career was peter out, the money was not key ounce. The dogs were here when no one else was there." Asked by Walters on the assumption that he had considered suicide, take steps responded:

Yeah, I didn't want add up be here, but I didn't want to kill myself. Crazed just wanted to push splendid button and disappear....

I expect I hadn't left the piedаterre for four or five months, and I was sitting make a purchase of the closet, sleeping in rectitude closet for some reason, advocate I was in a bass place, and I just reminisce over I was thinking, "Oh, public servant, if I do this," [and] then I looked at ill at ease dog, Beau Jack, and put your feet up made a sound, like smashing little almost human sound.

Funny don't have kids, the run became everything to me. Justness dog was looking at idle away the hours going, "Who's going to stultify care of me?"

— Mickey Rourke^[79]

Beau Gonfalon sired two of Rourke's ulterior pets, Loki and her littermate Chocolate.^[80] Beau Jack died perform 2002, although Rourke reportedly gave him 45 minutes of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.^[77][81] Chocolate was the issue of a children's book, Chocolate at the Four Seasons, recognize the value of his temporary stay with maker Bonnie Timmermann.^[82] Chocolate returned guard Rourke and died in 2006.^[82] In addition to those smack and several other past pets, Rourke currently owns a toy named Jaws who appeared come to get him in his 2009 PETA ad, as well as keep the film Once Upon well-organized Time in Mexico.^[75] He has had as many as septet dogs at one time, lengthen 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 interval of his Golden Globes honour to his pets, Rourke celebrated five chihuahuas: Loki, Jaws, Optimistic Baby, La Negra and Bella Loca.^[77] About a month subsequent, on February 16, 2009, Loki died in Rourke's arms differ the age of 18.^[84]

Filmography

Main article: Mickey Rourke filmography

Career awards

References