Sylvester Stallone
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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ActingBirthday
July 6, 1946Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
185Place of birth
New York City, New York, USAAlso known as
Sly Stallone, 西尔维斯特·史泰龙, 席維斯·史特龍, シルヴェスター・スタローン, 실베스터 스탤론, ซิลเวสเตอร์ สตอลโลน, Сильвестр Сталлоне, Σιλβέστερ Σταλόνε, Сільвестер Сталлоне, سيلفستر ستالون, Силвестър Сталоун, Italian Stallion, Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, Sylvester Enzio Stallone, Μάικλ Σιλβέστερ Γκαρντέτσιο Σταλόνε, סילבסטר סטאלוןCast credits
Rocky Balboa
Robert 'Rocky' BalboaRocky V
Robert 'Rocky' BalboaRocky II
Robert 'Rocky' BalboaFirst Blood
John RamboRocky IV
Robert "Rocky" BalboaRambo III
John RamboRocky III
Robert 'Rocky' BalboaRocky
Robert 'Rocky' BalboaRambo: First Blood Part II
John J. RamboOver the Top
Lincoln HawkFarewell, My Lovely
JonnieCop Land
Sheriff Freddy HeflinThe Specialist
Ray QuickD-Tox
Jake MalloyGet Carter
Jack CarterDriven
Joe TantoKambakkht Ishq
Sylvester StalloneThe Party at Kitty and Stud's
StudCannonball
MafiosoDaylight
Kit LaturaNighthawks
Deke DaSilvaCrew credits
Rambo: First Blood Part II
ScreenplayRocky II
Screenplay, DirectorFirst Blood
ScreenplayRocky
Screenplay, ChoreographerRambo III
ScreenplayRocky IV
Director, WriterRocky III
Director, WriterOver the Top
ScreenplayDriven
Producer, ScreenplayStaying Alive
Director, Producer, ScreenplayRambo
Screenplay, DirectorParadise Alley
Director, WriterCobra
ScreenplayThe Expendables
Director, ScreenplayThe Expendables 2
ScreenplayHomefront
Producer, ScreenplayThe Expendables 3
Screenplay, StoryCreed
Characters, ProducerDeath Wish
ProducerHeart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
Executive ProducerCreed II
Characters, Screenplay, Producer