Mickey Rourke Biography Children

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the past, a professional boxer. The author of several scripts. He also became famous for addiction to plastic surgery, mostly unsuccessful. In his later interviews, Philip Andre Jr. joked that his mother began to call him Mickey so as not to be confused with her husband. According to another version, he got the nickname from a pope, a cultureist who read Basball and Mickey Mantle.

Before the boy was six years old, two more children were born in the family - Joseph and Patricia. Mickey Rourke in childhood is wrong and constant quarrels of parents led to a divorce. Anna took the children and moved with them to the town of Liberty City Prigor Maiami, inhabited mainly by African American. There, seven -year -old Mickey went to school, and his mother married again - for the policeman Gin Eddis, who by that time had five children from previous marriages.

Cruel and irreconcilable, he disliked the stepsons, which, in his opinion, had to be taught hard discipline with the help of kulaks. Mickey, as the oldest and freedom -loving, got more than others. Mickey Rourke and his younger brother Joseph but the boy hated his stepfather not even for the fact that he let him go and without, for the fact that he beat his mother, who was afraid of this very large and vile man.

For many years, Rourke dreamed of taking revenge on Eddis for his childhood suffering. Next to their house was the Center for Social Security, where children of low-income parents could do something useful. It was there that Mickey first saw a boxing pear. For a teenager who somehow studied at school, Boxing symbolized a ticket in adulthood. He began to engage in diligently to him and soon hit the ring of the boxing hall of the fifth street of Miami-Beach, where he conducted the first battles under the nickname “Mick Mouse”.

In parallel, the boy talked a lot with a wide variety of people, preferring the slums of Liberty City to his native house. To earn the first money, he was both the seller of sweets and the drug dealer, until a shootout occurred before his eyes, shocked him so much that Mickey decided to leave the city and become an actor. Youth: New York-Los Angeles before leaving for the money busy with the sister in New York, the young man nevertheless knocked out two teeth, and also managed to participate in the production of the school drama “High Supervision”, the director of which his friend became, and received a school certificate in the year.

With him, he went to conquer the acting profession, having settled for a start in Greenwich Villija, a cheap hotel in Manhattan. Feeling to random earnings, Rurk accumulated by all his strength to further studies. He was not excited to work with a bouncer, a cleaner of the pools, a street merchant. The first role of Mickey Rurk is the short film “Love in Hampton” when he came to listen to the famous acting studio Lee Strasberg, one of its founders and examiners Elia Kazan was shocked by a scene played by a RuR on the drama of tennes of Williams “A cat on a hot roof”.

Mickey went around several thousand applicants and became one of the five listeners of the studio of that year. Even Jack Nicholson, who entered the Stracberg studio on the fifth attempt, and Dustin Hoffman, who were listening to the eighth time, could not boast of such a breakthrough. But if the study was given to the former boxer easily, then after it the rourney had a hard time.

Hollywood was in no hurry to embody the dream of Mickey, he visited the casting for casting, but he was not offered roles, even episodic. Los Angeles was full of young talents, who dreamed, like Rourke, to become famous. The opportunity to be a statist in the comedy of the cult Stephen Spielberg “” seemed to him a happy omen. Young Mickey Rourke on the set of the film “” on the left in the upper row of the filmmaker: take -off, fall, returning, after filming, Spielberg literally opened the “gates of paradise”, the dramatic western Michael Chimino, in which Mickey was played by Nika Ray.

Mickey Rourke in the film "Fighting Fish" in the early eighties used it in several secondary and main roles, which brought the rourney recognition, but not yet glory. Even the shooting in the Fighting Fish Francis Ford Coppola became the opening of a rourgehose only for the director, who responded about his talent and personality as “magnetic” and “mysterious”. Fighting fish.

Moreover, the sensory melodrama, bordering on frank eroticism, reached more success in Europe than in America, where the tape was nominated three times for the Golden Raspberry anti -aircraft. Mickey Rourke on the set of “9 and a half weeks” followed by the role of a private detective Harry Ainwell in the thriller of Alan Parker “The Heart of Angel”, no less significant for Mickey.

In search of a missing musician, his hero communicates with different people who, after talking with him, die. The frame from the film “The Heart of the Angel” inspired by successes, Rourke wrote a script according to which Michael Serezin shot the dramatic film “His Boy”. Mickey played in him the protagonist - not a very successful lone boxer Johnny Waker.The actor is organic and honest, he knows what his hero thinks about, what he feels before every battle.

The film "My Boy" did not like the audience, but the picture was not as successful as the several subsequent, for example, "Wild Orchid", "Harley Davidson and the Cowboy of the Malborough." But Mickey Rourke is a celebrity and he chooses where to act. In the year, the actor departs from filming and returns to the boxing ring. In the mid -nineties, the actor again takes on writing the script.

Together with Bruce Rubenstein, he creates a story about Butch a flock, who was a bullet concluded by the nickname. The dramatic action movie with the same name and Rourke in the title role was released in the year, after which an unsuccessful period came for Mickey: he did not receive interesting roles in the cinema, interrupting his earnings in second -rate thrillers. Mickey Rourke.

Temporarily accessible in attempts to return the former glory of Mickey Rurk, whose face was no longerly spun away by boxing, resorted to the help of a plastic surgeon. The result was the opposite, but more on that later. The new round of the film for the actor began already in the 21st century. Desperate 2 ". Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp are friends with X more fully, he unfolded his dramatic talent in the “City of Sins”, created immediately by three directors - Quentin Tarantino, Francom Miller and Robert Rodriguez.

Mickey, in which little remains of a handsome man of “9 and a half weeks”, played Brutal Marv, “stupid thug” with remarkable intelligence. This role was preceded by a series of operations, his frankly ugly character - the pinnacle of Self -irony. Mickey Rurk in the film “City of Sins” The role of Randy Randinson in the “Westler”, in many ways an autobiographical one, became for the actor a turn to former glory.

Mickey laid out in it in full - both morally and physically. Mickey Rourke in the film "Wrestler" The success of Rurk did not become short -term. After he starred in the sensational “iron man” the second, “uncontrollable”, “game of passion”, and also played the king of Hyperion in the fantasy of Tarsem Sinch “The War of the Gods. After that, up to a year, the actor starred in more than a dozen films.

The frame from the film "Iron Man-2" Boxing and Plastic in many ways the acting career Rurrus could have happened differently, if not for the uncompromising character, drug use and passion for the ring. When Mickey was almost forty years old, at the peak of acting glory, he returned to professional boxing. As Rurk explained, in this way he fought with self -destruction, because he ceased to respect himself as an actor.

In the year in Moscow, the last battle of the famous actor took place, in which he defeated Elliot Seymour by knockout. For several years of boxing practice, Rurk broke the cheekbone, 2 ribs, finger, 4 joints on his hand and nose. He began in his memory, several serious concussions led to a violation of coordination. Mickey had to forget about the title of world champion, as doctors banned him with boxing if he did not want to remain a mental disabled person until the end of his life.

In addition, due to injuries, Rurk suffered several unsuccessful plastic surgery, which forever distorted his face. Mickey Rourke before and after plasticity in the year the actor again began training, boasting of a muscular body. Mickey Rurk again returned to the ring in the actor, as before, in demand in the American and European film industry. He starred in the German melodrama “Berlin, I love you” in the role of Jim, played Harry in the criminal drama of Aziz Tazi “Night Walk”.

In the year, with the participation of Mickey Rurk, the films “Girl” were released, in which he starred with Bella Thorne, “The path of the legionnaires” and Adverse. Mickey Rurk and his Spitz, in addition to active filming in the cinema, Mickey is happy to attend social events, shocking the audience with his own style of clothing and always with a four -legged friend.

So, at the Fashion Week in New York, the actor appeared in a leather coat, fur unuswas and a cowboy hat, holding a charming puppy under the arm. Rurk also looked no less shocking on the show "Good morning, Britain." He appeared there after the next plastic surgery, which changed the actor's face beyond recognition. A stormy discussion of his appearance with unpleasant reviews immediately arose on the Internet.

Mickey Rourke in the show “Good morning, Britain! Mickey Rurk and his first wife lived for eight years, the couple divorced, they never had children. Years later, Debra recalled that at the first acquaintance, Mickey was very modest, and soon she realized how vulgar he was. His Superman about his wife soon turned into jealousy, and with fame and glory, Rourke began to take drugs, which Foyer could no longer endure.

Mickey passionately fell in love with the girl and told the director that he would only act with her. Mickey Rurk and Carre Otis Roman developed violently and by the end of the filming the couple got married, although Otis felt the frantic jealousy of Rurrro even before the wedding. A marriage in which there were constant reproaches, drugs, drinking, household violence and passionate love, did not last long.

Carre left several times, Mickey stood in front of her on his knees, begging to return, and once even cut off his finger.The little finger was sewn, the wife still left, and Rurk later recalled: I do not like to talk about it, because I still love her, but when my wife left, she said that I needed help, and I mentally sent her ... She was right, I needed to change, but I did not want to, until I looked in the mirror and did not see myself as other people saw me.

The man who looked at me was in armor and armor, and here I was scared ... The actor was on the verge of suicide when he decided to go to the priest and tell him everything about himself. It was the Holy Father who kept Rurrka from the desire to lower the trigger. And then Mickey forced himself to go to the therapist and missed only two classes in ten years. Evening Urgant.

Visiting Ivan - Mickey Rurk in the first three years after Otis left, the actor sold his collection of cars and motorcycles, and then the Beverly Hills mansion. He filled the emptiness in his soul and life with boxing and dogs with which he lived in a tented truck for two hundred dollars a week for some time. After a divorce, a lot of rumors and assumptions go about the personal life of Mickey Rurk.

He was credited with relations with models Sasha Volkova, and then with Evgenia Volodina. Mickey Rurk and Elena Kuletskaya in the year even talked about the new wedding of the Hollywood actor and the Russian model Elena Kuletskaya, with whom he met ten months and even made an offer. But the wedding never took place, and the rover soon saw with another girl model appearance - Anastasia Makarenko.

So far, not a single model, except Otis, has not been able to take Mickey to the aisle. In the photo: Carmen Pedarus Mickey Rurk now and was really wildly sounded by the will of Mickey, who asked his assistant Dmitry Korneychuk to bury him after death in the Ukrainian village of Khmelnitsky region next to Grandfather Korneychuk, because the actor does not want to be buried in America.

Nevertheless, Mickey Rourke is now finishing work on another script for the new film and plans to buy the next house in New York.