
Sylvester Stallone
312 FOLLOWERS • 131 CREDITS • JUL 6, 1946 • 79
Biography
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades.
Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). At the height of his career, Stallone was known for his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed's son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. He also starred in the sequel Creed II (2018) and portrayed Stakar Ogord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).
Regarded as an icon of action cinema, Stallone is credited with helping redefine the Hollywood action hero. He has occasionally ventured from the action genre, with mixed results. He starred in the comedies Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), both of which had modest success. He also starred in the 1997 drama Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed his sculpted physique and gained weight for his role as a powerless sheriff. In television, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King (2022-present). In addition to his film work, Stallone is a noted art collector and painter and has written books on fitness.
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Kelly Clarkson Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

The Early Show

Police Story

GMTV

Kojak

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Entertainment Tonight

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

Arnold

30 for 30

Mr. McMahon

Staying Alive

Men in Black

Cannonball

Mandingo

The Oscars

Downhill Racer

Zookeeper

A Minecraft Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Jackie Chan: My Story

Ratchet & Clank

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Expend4bles

Dream On

The Suicide Squad

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Creed

Creed II

Armor

Grudge Match

Samaritan

Alarum

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Rocky V

Never Too Old to Die

Escape to Victory

Rambo

Scavenger Hunt

Escape Plan 2: Hades

Over the Top

Tulsa King

The Specialist

Samaritan 2

Rocky III

The Family Stallone

Rambo III

Escape Plan: The Extractors

Judge Dredd

Cliffhanger

Rocky II

Rocky

Daylight

The Contender

Tango & Cash

The Expendables 3

Assassins

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rocky IV

Demolition Man

Rhinestone

Bullet to the Head

Untitled "Rocky" prequel

The Making of The Expendables 3

Rambo: Last Blood

Cobra

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

The Expendables

Rocky Balboa

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Lock Up

The Expendables 2

First Blood

Escape Plan
Production Credits

Samaritan 2

Rhinestone

Samaritan

Staying Alive

Scavenger Hunt

Over the Top

Ultimate Beastmaster

Death Wish

The Contender

First Blood

Tulsa King

Rocky II

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Homefront

Rocky V

A Working Man

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'

Creed

Rocky IV

Rambo III

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil

Untitled "Rocky" prequel

Creed III

Jackie Chan: My Story

The Expendables 2

Cliffhanger

NOLA King

Creed II

John Rambo

Creed IV

Rambo: Last Blood

Cobra

Rocky Balboa

The Expendables 3

Never Too Old to Die

Rocky III

The Expendables

Rocky

Rambo

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
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