Mickey Rourke, 72, was noticed exterior his Los Angeles house on August 11, the primary public sighting of the Oscar-nominated actor since he returned to the US following a short and troubled look on the UK actuality present Celeb Large Brother.
Rourke has lived many lives, even by Hollywood requirements — after creating a repute as a big-screen hunk in ’80s classics like 9 1/2 Weeks and Angel Coronary heart (and an off-screen dangerous boy who typically had his title within the information as a consequence of his hard-partying habits), Rourke withdrew from the world of movie to pursue a profession in skilled boxing. After a tentative return to appearing within the late ’90s, Rourke developed a full-scale comeback, with starring roles in 2005’s Sin Metropolis and 2008’s The Wrestler, a component which snagged him a Greatest Actor Oscar nomination.