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Sylvester Stallone
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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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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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Kelly Clarkson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
The Early Show
Kojak
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
E! True Hollywood Story
This Is Us
CBS News Sunday Morning
Celebrities Uncensored
Tulsa King
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Las Vegas
HBO First Look
Marvel Studios Legends
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
30 for 30
The Muppet Show
Arnold
Mr. McMahon
Men in Black
Staying Alive
Cannonball
Mandingo
Downhill Racer
Zookeeper
A Minecraft Movie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Ratchet & Clank
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Dream On
The Suicide Squad
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Creed II
Creed
Grudge Match
Expend4bles
Samaritan
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Assassins
Judge Dredd
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Rambo
Daylight
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Rocky
Rambo III
Scavenger Hunt
The Expendables 2
Cliffhanger
First Blood
Rambo: Last Blood
The Expendables
Escape Plan
The Expendables 3
Demolition Man
Over the Top
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
Samaritan 2
Rocky Balboa
Rhinestone
The Family Stallone
Cobra
The Specialist
Tango & Cash
Untitled "Rocky" prequel
Rocky III
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Bullet to the Head
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Rocky II
The Making of The Expendables 3
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Lock Up
Escape to Victory
The Contender
Never Too Old to Die
Production Credits
Rocky II
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
The Expendables
Scavenger Hunt
Untitled "Rambo" prequel
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Creed II
Rocky V
Rocky III
Ultimate Beastmaster
Samaritan 2
Untitled "Rocky" prequel
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
Rambo III
Rambo: Last Blood
Creed III
Rhinestone
First Blood
Samaritan
Staying Alive
Rambo
Homefront
The Expendables 3
Creed
Rocky Balboa
The Contender
Over the Top
Never Too Old to Die
Rocky
Cliffhanger
Death Wish
Creed IV
Cobra
The Expendables 2
Rocky IV
Tulsa King
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