Mickey Rourke | Born 1952

Mickey Rourke is a former boxer and now a Hollywood star who has appeared as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films. During the 1980s, he starred in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and received critical praise for his performance. In 1991, he left acting in order to become a professional boxer for a while. After his retirement from boxing three years later, he returned to acting and portrayed a corrupt lawyer in Man on Fire.

In 2005, Rourke joined the mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in Sin City, for which he bagged awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society. In recent years, he has portrayed roles in a number of commercially successful films, including the 2010 films The Expendables and Iron Man 2. He also has an upcoming movie entitled Warhunt.