Sylvester Stallone
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Biography
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.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The Early Show
Kojak
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
E! True Hollywood Story
This Is Us
Celebrities Uncensored
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Las Vegas
HBO First Look
Marvel Studios Legends
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
The Muppet Show
Arnold
Tulsa King
Staying Alive
Men in Black
Cannonball
Zookeeper
Mandingo
Downhill Racer
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Minecraft
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Ratchet & Clank
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Dream On
The Suicide Squad
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Creed
Expend4bles
Samaritan
Grudge Match
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Creed II
Rambo III
Untitled "Rocky" prequel
The Expendables
The Family Stallone
First Blood
Cliffhanger
Escape to Victory
Bullet to the Head
Rambo
The Expendables 2
Tango & Cash
The Contender
Rocky IV
Judge Dredd
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
Demolition Man
The Specialist
The Expendables 3
Cobra
Assassins
Over the Top
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Never Too Old to Die
Rocky II
Rhinestone
Lock Up
The Making of The Expendables 3
Rocky III
Rambo: Last Blood
Rocky Balboa
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Rocky
Rocky V
Samaritan 2
Escape Plan
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Scavenger Hunt
Production Credits
Scavenger Hunt
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
The Expendables 2
Rambo III
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
Rambo
Rocky III
The Expendables
Death Wish
Creed II
Creed III
First Blood
Rocky IV
Never Too Old to Die
Rocky II
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ultimate Beastmaster
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
The Contender
Untitled "Rambo" prequel
The Expendables 3
Untitled "Rocky" prequel
Rocky Balboa
Samaritan
Cobra
Over the Top
Tulsa King
Rhinestone
Creed
Rocky V
Rambo: Last Blood
Staying Alive
Samaritan 2
Creed IV
Cliffhanger
Rocky
Homefront
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