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