Birth Day: 1946-07-06
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Sylvester Stallone (born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush. He subsequently found gradual work as an extra or side character in films with a sizable budget until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor and screenwriter, starting in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful Rocky series (1976–present), for which he also wrote the screenplays. In the films, Rocky is portrayed as an underdog boxer who fights numerous brutal opponents, and wins the world heavyweight championship twice. In 1977, he was the third actor in cinema to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. His film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. His use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky placed permanently near the museum, and he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Up until 1982, his films were not big box office successes unless they were Rocky sequels, and none received the critical acclaim achieved with the first Rocky. This changed with the successful action film First Blood in which he portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo. Originally an adaptation of the eponymous novel by David Morell, First Blood’s script was significantly altered by Stallone during the film’s production. He would play the role in a total of five Rambo films (1982–2019). From the mid-1980s through to the late 1990s, he would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors of that era by appearing in a slew of commercially successful action films which were however generally panned by critics. These include Cobra, Tango and Cash, Cliffhanger, the better received Demolition Man, and The Specialist. He declined in popularity in the early 2000s but rebounded back to prominence in 2006 with a sixth installment in the Rocky series and 2008 with a fourth in the Rambo series. In the 2010s, he launched The Expendables films series (2010–2014), in which he played the lead as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful Escape Plan, and acted in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to the Rocky series with Creed, that serve as spin-off films focusing on Adonis "Donnie" Creed played by Michael B. Jordan, the son of the ill-fated boxer Apollo Creed, to whom the long-retired Rocky is a mentor. Reprising the role brought him praise, and his first Golden Globe award for the first Creed, as well as a third Oscar nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior.
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As Joe Travers
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As Self
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As Barney Ross
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As Stakar Ogord
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As Self
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As Self - 'Stakar Ogord' (archive footage)
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As Joe Smith
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As Self
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As Nanaue / King Shark (voice)
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As Self / Rocky Balboa (archive footage)
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As Narrator/Self (archive footage)
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As Ray Breslin
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As John Rambo
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As Himself
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As Jasper Reese
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As Himself (archive footage)
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As Sykes
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As Rocky Balboa
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As Ray Breslin
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As Bullet-Man (voice)
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As Stakar Ogord
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As Victor Von Ion (voice)
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As Rocky Balboa
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As Gerald
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As Barney Ross
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As Lincoln Hawk (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As Ray Breslin
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As Henry 'Razor' Sharp
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As James Bonomo
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As Barney Ross
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As Joe the Lion (voice)
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As John Rambo
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As Self (archive footage) / Rocky Balboa
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As Toymaker
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As Joe Tanto
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As Jack Carter
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As Weaver (voice)
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As Sylvester Stallone
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As Sheriff Freddy Heflin
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As Kit Latura
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As Judge Joseph Dredd
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As Robert Rath
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As Ray Quick
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As Gabe Walker
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As John Spartan
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As Sgt. Joseph "Joe" Andrew Bomowski
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As Angelo « Snapst » Provolone
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As Frank Leone
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As Lincoln Hawk
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As Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
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As Robert "Rocky" Balboa
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As John J. Rambo
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As Deke DaSilva (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As Nick
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As Man on Street (uncredited)
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As John Rambo, Vietnam veteran
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As Frank Nitti
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As Youth in Park
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As Jonnie
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As Stanley Rosiello
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As Jerry Savage
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As Hotel Guest (uncredited)
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As Nathaniel Hunter
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As Stud
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As Groomsman
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As Joe Smith
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As Restaurant Patron (uncredited)