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Philip
Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September
16, 1952) is a SAG award-winning, BAFTA Award
- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor
who has appeared primarily as a leading man in
action, drama and thriller films.
Trained as a boxer in his early years, Rourke
had a short stint as a pro fighter in the 1990s.
He won a 2009 Golden Globe award and a BAFTA award,
was nominated for a SAG award, and was nominated
for an Academy Award for his work in the film
The Wrestler.
Bio
Early
life
Rourke was born in Schenectady, New York to a
family of Irish and French descent. His father,
Philip Andre Rourke, Sr., an amateur body builder,
left the family when Mickey was six years old.[4]
After his parents divorced, his mother, Ann, married
Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police officer (later
promoted to detective) with 5 sons and moved Rourke,
his younger brother and their sister to southern
Florida, where he graduated Miami Beach Senior
High School in 1971.
During his teenage years, Rourke focused his attention
mainly on sports. He took up self-defense training
at the Boys Club of Miami. It was there that he
learned boxing skills and decided on an amateur
career. At the age of 12, Rourke won his first
boxing match as a 118-pound bantamweight, fighting
some of his early matches under the name Andre
Rourke. He continued his boxing training at the
famed 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, Florida,
where Muhammad Ali began his career. In 1969,
Rourke, then weighing 140 lbs., sparred with former
World Welterweight Champion Luis Rodríguez.
Rodriguez was the number one-rated middleweight
boxer in the world, and was training for his match
with world champion Nino Benvenuti. Rourke claims
to have received a concussion in this sparring
match.
At the 1971 Florida Golden Gloves, he received
another concussion in a boxing match. After being
told by doctors to take a year off and rest, Rourke
temporarily retired from the ring. From 1964 to
1972, he compiled an amateur record of 20 wins,
17 by knockout, and 6 defeats. which included
wins over Ron Carter, Charles Gathers, and Joe
Riles. (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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