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Sylvester Gardenzio "Sly" Stallone (; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. Subtract a film career spanning more than fifty discretion, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Flaxen Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, significance well as nominations for three Academy Awards bracket two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of one and only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) meet have starred in a box-office No. 1 coating across six consecutive decades.^[3][4]

Struggling as an actor construe a number of years upon moving to Newborn York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual be anxious in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercialised success starting in 1976 with his iconic representation capacity as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first vinyl of the successful Rocky franchise, which he too wrote.^[5] In 1977, he became the third business in history to be nominated for two Institute Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Entertainer. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo block out First Blood (1982), a role he would chuck across five Rambo films (1982–2019). He received adroit star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame compromise 1984. From the mid-1980s to the late Decade, Stallone would go on to become one resolve Hollywood's highest-paid actors acting in action films much 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.^[6]

Stallone spread his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) soar Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film privilege (2010–present), in which he starred as the moneyoriented Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in picture successful film Escape Plan and appeared in tog up sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky boost with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed's son Donnie Creed. Glory film brought Stallone widespread praise and his crowning Golden Globe Award, as well as a ordinal Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated possession the same role 40 years prior. He too starred in the sequel Creed II (2018) take portrayed Stakar Ogord in the Marvel Cinematic Area 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 contentment hero.^[7][8][2] He has occasionally ventured from the je ne sais quoi genre, with mixed results. He starred in class comedies Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mum Will Shoot (1992), both of which had unobtrusive success. He also starred in the 1997 picture Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed reward sculpted physique and gained weight for his position 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, promote has written books on fitness.

Early life extract education

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone^[9][10][11] was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough^[12] on July 6, 1946,^[13] the elder son follow women's professional wrestling promoter Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone (née Labofish; 1921–2020) and hairdresser Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr. (1919–2011).^[14] His mother was an American from Pedagogue, D.C., with Breton French^[15] and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry,^[16][17][18] while his father was an Italian immigrant cause the collapse of Gioia del Colle^[14] who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s.^[19][20] His younger brother is affair and musician Frank Stallone.^[14] Many biographies of Stallone indicate that his birth name is "Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone" and his mother explained in keep you going interview that she originally named him "Tyrone" in that she admired the actor Tyrone Power, but Stallone's father changed it to "Sylvester". His nickname although a child was "Binky" but he chose disclose go by the nickname of Mike/Michael after schoolmates began calling him "Stinky".^[9][10][11] His middle name "Gardenzio" is an alteration of the Italian given nickname "Gaudenzio" and he usually shortened it to "Enzio".^[1]

Complications during Stallone's birth forced his mother's obstetricians save use two pairs of forceps while delivering him, accidentally severing a nerve in the process.^[21][22] That caused paralysis of the lower left side comatose his face (including parts of his lip, language, and chin) which gave him his signature roar look and slurred speech.^[22][23] As a result, noteworthy was bullied in his childhood, with which why not? coped by getting into bodybuilding and acting.^[24] Cool guidance counselor once told Stallone's mother: "Your newborn is suited to run a sorting machine advocate to be an assistant electrician, primarily in significance area of elevator operations"; nevertheless, Sylvester aspired call on be an actor and a screenwriter.”^[25]

Stallone spent corner of his infancy in foster and boarding danger signal, rejoining and moving back with his family contact Maryland when he was five. In the trustworthy 1950s, his father moved the family to queen mother's native Washington, D.C. to open a attractiveness school. In 1954, his mother opened a women's gym called Barbella's.^[26][27] He initially stayed with king father following his parents' divorce when he was 11, but joined his remarried mother in City when he was 15.^[28]

At one point, Stallone was voted "Most Likely To End Up In Authority Electric Chair" in high school;^[29] nevertheless, Stallone falsified Notre Dame Academy and Abraham Lincoln High Institute in Philadelphia,^[30] and Charlotte Hall Military Academy clear Charlotte Hall, Maryland, prior to attending Miami Dade College.^[31] He spent two years, from September 1965 to June 1967, at the American College distinctive Switzerland. He returned to the United States obstacle study as a drama major at the Organization of Miami, from 1967 to 1969, but plain-spoken not graduate.^[32] Decades later, after Stallone's request wander his acting and life experiences be accepted newest exchange for his remaining needed college credits flavour graduate, he was granted a Bachelor of Acceptable Arts (BFA) degree by the University of City in 1998.^[33][34]

Film and stage career

1968–1976: early roles private house breakthrough

Until 1969, he appeared on the stage out of the sun the name Mike Stallone; in 1970, he begun using the stage name Sylvester E. Stallone. At the same time as attending the University of Miami, Stallone had adroit role in the drama That Nice Boy (aka The Square Root), filmed in 1968.^[35][36][37] Moreover, stylishness and John Herzfeld worked together in 1969 refinement a low-budget self-produced film called "Horses".^[38]

Stallone had consummate first starring role in the softcore pornography act film The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970). He was paid US$200 for two days' work.^[39] Stallone later explained that he had done primacy film out of desperation after being evicted raid his apartment and finding himself homeless for very many days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Limiting in New York City prior to seeing put in order casting notice for the film. In the actor's words, "it was either do that movie features rob someone, because I was at the in the course of – the very end – of my rope".^[40] The film was released several years later bring in Italian Stallion, in order to cash in heaviness Stallone's newfound fame (the new title was disused from Stallone's nickname since Rocky). Stallone also asterisked in the erotic off-Broadway stage play Score which ran for 23 performances at the Martinique Screenplay from October 28 to November 15, 1971, stake was later made into the 1974 film Score by Radley Metzger.^[41]

After moving to New York Megalopolis, Stallone shared an apartment with his girlfriend, Sasha Czack, an aspiring actress who supported them tough working as a waitress.^[42] Stallone took odd jobs around this time, including being a cleaner elbow a zoo, and a theater usher; he was fired from the latter for scalping tickets. Why not? furthered his writing skills by frequenting a regional library, and became interested in the works have a high opinion of Edgar Allan Poe.^[43]

In 1972, Stallone was on influence verge of giving up on having an accurate career; in what he later described as uncluttered low point, he tried and failed to liveliness a job as an extra in The Godfather.^[44][45] Instead, he was relegated to a background function in another Hollywood hit, What's Up, Doc?, working capital Barbra Streisand. Stallone is hardly visible in king two appearances.

Stallone happened to be acting shoulder a play that a friend invited him anticipate partake in, and an agent in attendance design that Stallone fit the role of Stanley, unornamented main character in The Lords of Flatbush, which had a start-stop schedule from 1972 to 1974 over budget issues.^[46] Stallone, around mid-1973, achieved authority first proper starring role, in the independent album No Place to Hide, playing a man who is associated with a New York–based urban nihilist movement, with a jewelry-seller as his love troubled. The film was re-cut and retitled Rebel seniority later, this second version featuring Stallone as tog up star. In 1990, this film was re-edited slaughter outtakes from the original film and newly ball matching footage, then redubbed – in the proportion of Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? – into a parody of itself titled A Chap Called... Rainbo.

Stallone's other first few film roles were minor, and included brief uncredited appearances be pleased about M*A*S*H (1970), as a soldier sitting at fastidious table; Pigeons (1970), as a party guest; Tree-clad Allen's Bananas (1971), as a subway thug; now the psychological thriller Klute (1971), as an further dancing in a club; and in the Diddley Lemmon film The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), as a youth. In the latter film, Colours Lemmon's character chases, tackles, and mugs Stallone, standpoint that Stallone's character is a pickpocket. He abstruse his second starring role in 1974, in The Lords of Flatbush.^[22] In 1975, he played behind roles in Farewell, My Lovely; Capone; and Death Race 2000. He made guest appearances on nobility TV series Police Story and Kojak. He decay also supposedly in Mandingo. It is often articulated that his scene was deleted.^[47]

Stallone gained worldwide repute with his starring role in the smash hurt Rocky (1976), a sports drama about a straining boxer, Rocky Balboa, taking on heavyweight champion Phoebus Creed.^[22] On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw authority Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner fight. That slapdash Stallone went home, and after three days stylishness had completed the first draft of Rocky.^[48] Stallone subsequently denied that Wepner provided any inspiration implication the script; however, Wepner filed a lawsuit which was eventually settled with Stallone for an cloakanddagger amount.^[49][50] Other possible inspirations for the film the fifth month or expressing possibility have included Rocky Graziano's autobiography Somebody Up Here Likes Me, and the film of the amount to name. Stallone attempted to sell the script willing multiple studios, with the intention of playing depiction lead role himself. Irwin Winkler and Robert A surname became interested and offered Stallone US$350,000 for depiction rights, but they had their own casting matter for the lead role, including Robert Redford submit Burt Reynolds. Stallone refused to sell unless explicit played the lead character – and, eventually, funds a substantial budget cut to compromise, it was agreed he could be the star.^[51] Upon tutor release, critic Roger Ebert stated that Stallone could become the next Marlon Brando.

In 1977, look the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky was nominated idea ten Oscars, including Best Actor and Best Earliest Screenplay nominations for Stallone. The film went jamboree to win the Academy Awards for Best Get the message, Best Directing, and Best Film Editing. Rocky has since been inducted into the National Film Records and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance tackle the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed greatness Rocky Steps, and the city has a cast of the Rocky character placed permanently near integrity museum. The character was also voted into representation International Boxing Hall of Fame.

1978–1999: subsequent success

Stallone made his directorial debut and starred in influence 1978 film Paradise Alley, a family drama score which he played one of three brothers who get involved in professional wrestling. That same period, he starred in Norman Jewison's F.I.S.T., a societal companionable drama in which he plays a warehouse woman, very loosely modeled on James Hoffa, who becomes involved in labor union leadership. In 1979, oversight wrote, starred, and directed (replacing John G. Avildsen) in Rocky II. The sequel became a bigger success,^[22] grossing US$200 million.

In 1981, he starred aboard Michael Caine and soccer star Pelé in Escape to Victory, a sports drama in which grace plays a prisoner of war involved in spruce up Nazi propaganda soccer game. That same year, type starred in the thriller Nighthawks, in which take steps plays a New York city cop who plays a cat-and-mouse game with a foreign terrorist, false by Rutger Hauer.

In 1982, Stallone starred gorilla Vietnam veteran John Rambo, a former Green Beret, in the action film First Blood,^[22] an modifying of the eponymous novel by David Morell, although the script was significantly altered by Stallone via the film's production,^[52] which was both a depreciating and box-office success. Critics praised Stallone's performance, maxim he made Rambo seem human, as opposed coinage the way he is portrayed in the work of the same name. It launched the Rambo franchise. That year Rocky III was released clod which Stallone wrote, directed, and starred. The erelong sequel became a box-office success. In preparation sustenance these roles, Stallone embarked upon a vigorous practice regimen, which often meant six days a workweek in the gym and further sit-ups in ethics evenings. Stallone claims to have reduced his item fat percentage to his all-time low of 2.8% for Rocky III.^[53]

In 1983, he directed Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring Toilet Travolta. This was the only film Stallone predestined that he did not star in. Staying Alive was universally panned by film critics.^[54] Despite character a critical failure, Staying Alive was a commercialized success. The film opened with the biggest weekend for a musical film ever (at the time) with a gross of $12,146,143 from 1,660 screens.^[55][56] Overall, the film grossed nearly $65 million grip the US box office against its $22 1000000 budget. Worldwide it grossed $127 million.^[57] Though say publicly US box-office intake was significantly less than influence $139.5 million^[58] earned by Saturday Night Fever, goodness film nevertheless ranked in the top ten chief financially successful films of 1983.

During the Decennium, Stallone was considered one of the biggest charisma film stars in the world,^[59] along with Poet Schwarzenegger. The Schwarzenegger-Stallone rivalry continued for years;^[60] they attacked each other in the press, and time-tested to surpass the other with more on-screen killings and larger weapons.^[59]

Stallone occasionally attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, roles in different genres. In 1984, he co-wrote increase in intensity starred alongside Dolly Parton in the comedy fell Rhinestone, where he played a wannabe country penalization singer. For the Rhinestone soundtrack, he performed great song. Stallone turned down the lead male segregate in Romancing the Stone in order to put together Rhinestone instead, a decision he later regretted.^[61]

In 1985, Stallone continued his success with the Rocky arena Rambo franchises with Rocky IV and Rambo: Prime Blood Part II. Stallone has portrayed these bend over characters in a total of 13 films. Stallone met former Mr. OlympiaFranco Columbu to develop enthrone character's appearance for the film Rocky IV, grouchy as if he were preparing for the Illustrious. Olympia competition. That meant two workouts a existing, six days a week.^[62] Both films were greater financial successes.

It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels with Dirty Faces. Integrity film would form part of his multi-picture tie with Cannon Films and was to co-star Christopher Reeve and be directed by Menahem Golan. Leadership re-making of such a beloved classic was tumble with disapproval by Variety and horror by outdistance critic Roger Ebert. Cannon opted to make greatness action film Cobra which was released in 1986 and became a box-office success. It led know the setting up of his production company Ashen Eagle Enterprises.^[63]

In 1987, he starred in the kinsmen drama Over the Top as a struggling delivery service who tries to make amends with his alienated son and enters an arm wrestling competition. That was poorly received by critics and was ingenious box-office failure.^[64] In 1989, he co-starred alongside Kurt Russell in the buddy cop action film Tango & Cash, which did solid business domestically favour overseas, grossing US$57 million in foreign markets and upon US$120 million worldwide.^[65] Stallone became a boxing promoter knock over the 1980s. His boxing promoting company, Tiger Welldesigned Productions, signed world champion boxers Sean O'Grady arm Aaron Pryor.^[66]

Stallone began the 1990s starring in leadership fifth installment of the Rocky franchise, Rocky V. This film brought back the first film's inspector, John G. Avildsen, and was intended to rectify the final installment in the series. It was considered a box-office disappointment and received negative reviews.^[67]

Stallone next appeared in John Landis' period comedy Oscar which was both a critical and box-office failure.^[68] In 1992, he appeared in Roger Spottiswoode's summation comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot^[69] which was also both a critical and box-office misfortune. Stallone signed onto the film based on rumors that Schwarzenegger was interested in the lead. Schwarzenegger said that, knowing the script's quality was quick, he publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.^[59]

In 1993, he made a retort with Renny Harlin's action thriller Cliffhanger,^[70] which was a success in the US, grossing US$84 million, final worldwide, grossing US$171 million.^[71] Later that year, he asterisked in the futuristic action film Demolition Man bound by Marco Brambilla, co-starring Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock.^[72] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has sting approval rating of 60% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 5.43/10. The site's consensus reads: "A better-than-average sci-fi shoot-em-up with pure satirical undercurrent, Demolition Man is bolstered by annoying performances by Stallone, Snipes, and Bullock."^[73] The ep debuted at No. 1 at the box office.^[74][75][76]Demolition Man grossed $58,055,768 by the end of professor box-office run in North America and $159,055,768 worldwide.^[77]

His string of hits continued with 1994's The Specialist co-starring Sharon Stone and directed by Luis Llosa, which opened in the U.S. on October 7.^[78] While the critical reception was overwhelmingly negative,^[79] high-mindedness film was a commercial success.^[80] In its outlet weekend it made $14,317,765 and ended up construction back its budget with $57,362,582 at the helper box office while making another $113,000,000 overseas, discordant it a worldwide gross of $170,362,582.^[81]

In 1995, misstep played the title character (from the British ludicrous book 2000 AD) in the science fiction je ne sais quoi film Judge Dredd. His overseas box-office appeal ransomed the domestic box-office disappointment of Judge Dredd, which cost almost US$100 million and barely made its no matter what back, with a worldwide tally of US$113 million. Teeth of the film's poor box-office performance, Stallone signed clever three-picture deal with Universal Pictures for $60 bomb, making him the second star after Jim Carrey to receive $20 million per film. The contract expired in February 2000 without him making humble films, however, so he received no payment.^[82]

That origin, he also appeared in the thriller Assassins enter Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas. That same era, Stallone, along with an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in the Trey Parker and Matt Buddy short comedy film "Your Studio and You" guaranteed by the Seagram Company for a party celebrating their acquisition of Universal Studios and the MCA Corporation. Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa list with subtitles translating what he is saying. Put behind you one point, Stallone starts yelling about how potty they use his Balboa character, that he undone it in the past; the narrator calms him with a wine cooler and calling him "brainiac." In response, Stallone says, "Thank you very much." He then looks at the wine cooler boss exclaims, "Stupid cheap studio!"^[83]

In 1996, he starred deduct the disaster filmDaylight as a disgraced former extremity services chief who attempts to rescue survivors bank an underground tunnel explosion. Daylight also underperformed mistrust the domestic box office, grossing $33 million, on the other hand did better overseas and grossed a total remaining $158 million worldwide.^[84] In 1997, Stallone was class against type as an overweight sheriff in probity crime drama Cop Land in which he asterisked alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta. High-mindedness film was critically well-received and was a plain success at the box office, earning $63 pile on a $15 million budget, and Stallone's action earned him the Stockholm International Film Festival Reasonable Actor Award. In 1998, he did voice-over take pains for the animated film Antz, which was cool success domestically.

2000–2005: declining years

In 2000, Stallone asterisked in the thriller Get Carter, a remake work the 1971 British film of the same term, but the film was poorly received by both critics and audiences. Stallone's career declined considerably aft his subsequent films Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002) were also critical and advertisement failures.

In 2003, he played a villainous conduct yourself in the third installment of the Spy Kids series: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which was a huge box-office success (almost US$200 million worldwide). Stallone also had a cameo appearance in the 2003 French film Taxi 3 as a passenger. Likewise that year, Stallone started to regain prominence shelter his supporting role in the neo-noir crime pageant Shade which was only released in a reduced fashion but was praised by critics.^[85] He was also attached to star and direct a ep tentatively titled Rampart Scandal, which was to capability about the murder of rappers Tupac Shakur ride The Notorious B.I.G. and the surrounding Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal.^[86] It was later aristocratic Notorious but was shelved.^[87]

In 2005, alongside Sugar Orchestrate Leonard, he was the co-presenter of the NBC reality television boxing competition series The Contender. Guarantee same year he also made a guest showing in two episodes of the television series Las Vegas. That year, Stallone also inducted professional struggle icon Hulk Hogan, who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the being who offered Hogan the cameo in Rocky III.^[88] In August, Stallone released his book Sly Moves which claimed to be a guide to efficacy and nutrition as well as a candid compassion into his life and works from his oust perspective. The book also contained many photographs virtuous Stallone throughout the years as well as movies of him performing exercises.

2006–present: Franchise films

After dinky three-year hiatus from films, Stallone had a counter in 2006 with the sixth installment of influence Rocky series, Rocky Balboa, which was a carping and commercial hit. After the critical and box-office failure of the previous installment Rocky V, Stallone had decided to write, direct and star access a sixth installment which would be a very appropriate climax to the series. The total maid box office came to US$70.3 million (and US$155.7 million worldwide).^[89] The budget of the film was only US$24 million. His performance in Rocky Balboa has been indestructible and garnered mostly positive reviews.^[90] That year, greatness development Death Wish remake began, when Stallone proclaimed that he would be directing and starring insert a remake of the 1974 film. Stallone whispered, "Instead of the Charles Bronson character being require architect, my version would have him as dexterous very good cop who had incredible success impoverished ever using his gun. So when the tactic on his family happens, he's really thrown bounce a moral dilemma in proceeding to carry phase his revenge." He later told the publication turn he was no longer involved.^[91][92] In a 2009 interview with MTV, though, Stallone stated that unwind was again considering the project.^[93] However the duty went to Bruce Willis with Eli Roth hoot director.

Stallone partnered with a beverage company manufacturing an upscale bottled water brand called Sly Water.^[94]

In 2008, Stallone reprised his other famous role brand Rambo with the fourth installment of his irritate successful film franchise which was titled simply Rambo (John Rambo in some countries where the pull it off film was titled Rambo). The film opened manner 2,751 theaters on January 25, 2008, grossing US$6,490,000 on its opening day and US$18,200,000 over loom over opening weekend. Its box office was US$113,244,290 omnipresent with a budget of US$50 million.

In July 2009, Stallone made a cameo appearance in the Screenland film Kambakkht Ishq, where he played himself.^[95]

It was announced on December 7, 2010, that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Praise in the non-participant category.^[96]

Also that year, Stallone wrote, directed and starred in the ensemble action crust The Expendables. The film, which was filmed generous summer/winter 2009, was released on August 13, 2010. Joining him in the film were fellow movement stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren, as well as Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Enthusiastic Couture, Eric Roberts, and Stone Cold Steve Austin, and cameos by fellow '80s action icons Physician Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[97] The film took US$34,825,135 in its opening weekend, going straight in inspect No. 1 in the US box office. Class figure marked the biggest opening weekend in Stallone's career.^[98] In summer 2010, Brazilian company O2 Movies (Portuguese/Spanish) released a statement saying it was still performance more than US$2 million for its work on justness film.^[99] In 2011, Stallone provided the voice collide a lion in Kevin James' comedy Zookeeper.

The Expendables 2 was released August 17, 2012; influence sequel received a positive critical reception of 67% on Rotten Tomatoes,^[100] as opposed to the original's 41%.^[101] As well as returning cast members come across the first film, the ensemble cast also limited Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris. That class, Stallone co-wrote the book for the Broadway lyrical adaptation of Rocky.

In 2013, Stallone starred welcome the action film Bullet to the Head, booked by Walter Hill, based upon Alexis Nolent's Romance graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete.^[102] Besides in 2013, he starred in the action affaire de coeur Escape Plan, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Caviezel, and in the sports comedy drama Grudge Match alongside Robert De Niro, harkening back carry out the Rocky franchise. Stallone was reported to befall developing an English-language remake of the Spanish peel No Rest for the Wicked, though the post was shelved.^[103][104] That year Stallone was credited hoot writer for the Jason Statham action film conveyance Homefront.

The Expendables 3, the third installment in honesty ensemble action film series, was released on Grave 15, 2014. The returning ensemble cast also speed up Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson and Histrion Ford. This film was negatively received by both critics and audiences and became the lowest-grossing lp in the series.^[105]

In 2015, Stallone reprised his part as Rocky Balboa in a spin-off-sequel film, Creed, which focused on Adonis "Donnie" Creed, the at one fell swoop of his deceased friend/rival, Apollo Creed, becoming uncomplicated professional boxer, played by Michael B. Jordan. Rank film, directed by Ryan Coogler, received critical hail. Portraying the iconic cinematic boxer for the 7th time in a span of 40 years, Stallone's portrayal of the character received widespread acclaim take precedence accolades, including the Golden Globe Award for Blow Supporting Actor, and his third Academy Award appointment, this time for Best Supporting Actor.

In 2017, Stallone appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as Stakar Ogord / Starhawk, the governor of a Ravagers faction.^[106] In 2018, he co-starred in Escape Plan 2: Hades with Dave Bautista which was released straight to home-video. Upon wrap production, he announced via his social media holdup that work on the third movie titled Escape Plan: The Extractors, began immediately thereafter.^[107] In July, Stallone announced that he had finished a penmanship for a sequel to Creed, with a story line including the return of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV.^[108] That year, Stallone was featured in Derek Wayne Johnson's John G. Avildsen: King of honesty Underdogs, a documentary about director John G. Avildsen.^[109]

Creed II went into production in March 2018, shrivel a scheduled release on Thanksgiving 2018. Stallone was originally slated to direct before the appointment interrupt Steven Caple Jr., in his feature film chargeable debut.^[110]Creed II was released in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on November 21, 2018. The release received generally positive reviews from critics and cut off went on to debut to $35.3 million interpolate its opening weekend (a five-day total of $55.8 million), marking the biggest debut ever for first-class live-action release over Thanksgiving.^[111][112]

On July 23, 2019, unite an interview with Variety, Stallone said that uncomplicated Rocky sequel and prequel are in development. Processor Irwin Winkler said "We're very high on it" and that negotiations are underway for Stallone around write and star in the feature. "We're snatch anxious to make it." Stallone said the scheme of the film would be about Rocky befriending a young fighter who is an undocumented migrant. "Rocky meets a young, angry person who got stuck in this country when he comes ingratiate yourself with see his sister. He takes him into queen life, and unbelievable adventures begin, and they breath up south of the border. It's very, bargain timely." Stallone said. Stallone also said there move back and forth "ongoing discussions" about a Rocky prequel television escort, which he hopes will land on a stream service and the series will likely follow nifty young Rocky Balboa as a professional boxing affirmative. Stallone said producer Irwin Winkler is hesitant overpower making the series saying that "There was fiercely conflict there, yes. He felt in his wits that "Rocky" was primarily a feature film, view he didn't see it as being translated stake out cable, so there was a big bone personage contention."^[113][114] That year, Stallone hand-picked Derek Wayne Lbj to direct and produce a documentary on authority making of the original Rocky, entitled 40 Seniority of Rocky (2020). The documentary features Stallone narrating behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film.^[115]

Stallone formed a film studio named Balboa Productions stomach Braden Aftergood in March 2018, where Stallone wish serve as co-producer for each of their projects. The studio signed a multi-year collaboration deal liven up Starlight Culture Entertainment to develop projects for lp and television.^[116] In May 2018, a fifth installation in the Rambo franchise was announced, and reside in August 2018, Adrian Grünberg was confirmed as integrity director.^[117]Rambo: Last Blood began filming by September 2018, with a script co-written by Stallone, who very reprised his role as Vietnam War veteran Bathroom Rambo.^[118] The plot centers around Rambo infiltrating regular Mexican drug cartel to rescue a family friend's daughter.^[119] The film, which was released on Sept 20, 2019, in the United States,^[120] grossed $18.9 million in its opening weekend, the best launch of the franchise.^[121][122] The film grossed $91 fortune worldwide against a production budget of $50 bomb.

In late 2020, Stallone lent his voice orangutan Rambo to the fighting video game Mortal Kombat 11, as part of the game's 2nd Kombat Pack.^[123] In 2021, he voiced King Shark unswervingly the DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad.^[124] In 2022, Stallone starred in Samaritan, a sunless interpretation of the superhero genre, from a hand written by Bragi Schut.^[125] In November 2022, Stallone made his streaming television debut in Tulsa King, in which he plays a Mafia boss. Ethics 9-episode series was created by Taylor Sheridan unacceptable Terence Winter and premiered on Paramount+.^[126] A above season continued thereafter.

In May 2023 Stallone point of view his immediate family (wife and three daughters) marked in a reality television series The Family Stallone. Seven days after launch, the series was novel for a second season. That same month, Stallone reprised his role as Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.^[127]Sly, a documentary single about Stallone by Thom Zimny, premiered as authority closing film of the 2023 Toronto International Membrane Festival.^[128] In October 2023, he reprised role whereas Barney Ross in Expend4bles, which was a depreciating and commercial failure, becoming the lowest-grossing film doubtful the franchise.^[129]

Upcoming projects

Following the releases of Creed II and Rambo V: Last Blood, Balboa Productions has had an extensive production slate. A film depiction the history of Jack "Galveston Giant" Johnson, primacy first African-American boxing heavyweight champion, is in occurrence. The project was announced after Stallone's instrumental concern in helping get Johnson a posthumous pardon take the stones out of US President Donald Trump.^[130]

Stallone is also scheduled star in the film adaptation of Hunter, clean story which had originally been planned as picture premise for Rambo V: Last Blood. The forgery centers around Nathaniel Hunter, a professional tracker who is hired to hunt a half-human beast conceived as an experiment of a secret agency. On the rocks feature-length adaptation of the biographical novel Ghost: Empty Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent make wet Michael McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo about McGowan's being of over 50 undercover missions will follow, even if there is no screenwriter attached to the delegation. Additionally, a film centered around black ops fortification, being written by retired Army Ranger Max President, is also in development. Stallone wrote A Method Man in collaboration with David Ayer from out book series created by Chuck Dixon, which was initially intended to be a television series, on the contrary later became a feature film staring Jason Statham.^[131] The television production slate includes a series interpretation of Charles Sailor's Second Son being written impervious to Rob Williams.^[132]

In May 2020, Stallone announced that trig sequel to 1993's Demolition Man is in nobility works: "I think it's coming. We're working straighten out it right now with Warner Brothers. It's wayout fantastic. So, that should come out, that's travelling fair to happen".^[133] Stallone has continued to express authority passion in directing a film based on Edgar Allan Poe's life, a script he has back number preparing for years. He has also mentioned become absent-minded he would like to adapt Nelson DeMille's new-fangled The Lion's Game.

Multiple tasks in media

In 1977, for the first Rocky, Stallone became the gear man in history to receive the two nominations for best actor and best screenplay, after Chump Chaplin and Orson Welles.^[134] Stallone is known on his recurring roles as Rocky Balboa, John Rambo, and Barney Ross. Stallone wrote and starred condemn all of six Rocky films, while directing quaternion of the sequels. Stallone starred in and co-wrote the five films of the Rambo franchise, countryside also directed the fourth one. Stallone wrote, destined, and took the lead role in the primary installment of The Expendables films. Stallone directed, wrote, and starred in Paradise Alley. John Travolta asterisked in Staying Alive, a sequel of Saturday Fallacious Fever, which Stallone wrote and directed. Stallone wrote and starred in Cobra, and Driven. Stallone co-wrote and starred in F.I.S.T., Rhinestone, Over the Top, Cliffhanger, and Creed II.^{[citation needed]}

Asked in February 2008 which of the icons (Rocky or Rambo) prohibited would rather be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, but Rocky is my premier baby, so Rocky."^[135] He also stated that Wobble could be interpreted as the "conscious" and Rambo as the "unconscious" of the same character.^[136]

Stallone has occasionally sung in his films. He sang "Too Close to Paradise" for Paradise Alley (1978), succeed the music provided by Bill Conti (who further collaborated with Stallone in prior years, having taped the famous "Gonna Fly Now" theme for fillet Academy Award-nominated film, Rocky (1976) which was smashing U.S. No. 1 hit).^[137] In Rocky III (1982), Stallone (as Rocky Balboa) sang "Take Me Back" to his on-screen wife, Adrian (Talia Shire), whilst they lay in bed. The song was good cheer performed by singer and younger brother, Frank, who had a small role in the original Rocky. For Rhinestone (1984), Stallone sang such songs rightfully "Drinkenstein" as well as duets with his co-star, and actual country music star, Dolly Parton.^[138] Let go also performed two songs when he guest-starred muddle The Muppet Show in the 1980s, at glory height of his career.^[139] The last time Stallone sang in a film was in Grudge Match (2013) when he and Robert De Niro utter "The Star-Spangled Banner" together.^[140]

Personal life

Marriages and children

Stallone has been married three times. He has two reading from his first marriage and three daughters stranger his third marriage.

At age 28, on Dec 28, 1974, he married Sasha Czack. They challenging two sons, Sage Moonblood Stallone (1976–2012), who grand mal of heart disease at age 36, and Seargeoh (b. 1979), who was diagnosed with autism struggle an early age. The couple divorced on Feb 14, 1985.

Stallone married model and actress Brigitte Nielsen on December 15, 1985, in Beverly Hills, California. Their marriage (which lasted two years) gleam their subsequent divorce were highly publicized by distinction tabloid press.^{[141][142][143]}

In 1988, Stallone met model Jennifer Flavin and they were in a relationship until 1994, when Stallone told her he was having splendid child with model Janice Dickinson. After the Feb 1994 birth, DNA tests confirmed he was jumble the father and Stallone ended his engagement disclose Dickinson. After a brief 1995 engagement with mould Angie Everhart, he and Flavin rekindled their communications.

In May 1997, Stallone and Jennifer Flavin one. The couple has three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, title Scarlet.^[144] His daughters were chosen to share interpretation role of Golden Globe Ambassador at the 74th Golden Globe Awards.^[145] On August 19, 2022, Hand Beach County records showed that after 25 epoch of marriage, Jennifer Flavin had filed for "dissolution of marriage and other relief".^[146][147] On September 23, 2022, the couple reconciled.^[148]

Family and friends

Stallone maintains excellent relationship with his brother Frank who contributed prestige theme songs to Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Staying Alive. In 1983, Frank's song "Far from Over", for Staying Alive, reached the #10 U.S. hit. Frank appears in minor roles, fillet parts, and provides music in many films important Sylvester, most notably in the Rocky films, in Frank played a street corner singer and deliberate songs.^{[citation needed]} Stallone's 48-year-old half-sister, Toni Ann Filiti, died of lung cancer on August 26, 2012.^[149] Stallone was a close friend of Joe Spinell, but they had a falling out during leadership shooting of their final collaboration, Nighthawks, in 1981, and Spinell died in 1989.^[150]

Injuries

Known for physically difficult roles and his willingness to do the bulk of his own stunts, Stallone has suffered several injuries during his acting career. During the cinematography of Escape to Victory, he broke a have a hand in trying to save a penalty kick against Pelé.^[151] For a scene in Rocky IV, he rich Dolph Lundgren, "Punch me as hard as give orders can in the chest." He later said, "Next thing I know, I was in intensive anxiety at St. John's Hospital for four days. It's stupid!"^[152][153] While filming a fight scene with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin for The Expendables, he down and out his neck and required the insertion of spruce metal plate.^[154]

Legal issues

In February 2001, an exotic choreographer named Margie Carr filed a lawsuit against Stallone, accusing him of rape while at a Santa Monica fitness center where they both worked get by on February 26, 2000. A lawyer for Stallone denied the claim, saying she sold the anecdote to Globe the month before the lawsuit.^{[155][156][157]}

In 2007, customs officials in Australia discovered 48 vials receive the synthetic human growth hormone Jintropin in Stallone's luggage.^[158] In a court hearing on May 15, he pleaded guilty to two charges of controlling a controlled substance.^[159]

In 2013, it was reported focus Stallone paid a $2 million lump-sum settlement equidistant a monthly amount and a trust for psychotic and medical expenses to his half-sister Toni-Ann Filiti in 1987. Filiti threatened to file a proceeding accusing him of abuse. Representatives for Stallone elitist Filiti's mother Jacqueline Stallone denied the allegations, accusative Filiti of blackmailing him and being a anodyne addict. However, Filiti's son, Edd Filiti, supported representation claims, saying his mother "screamed about" abuse strike the hands of her half-brother "over and over," before her death in 2012.^[160][156]

In 2016, a slaughter from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was published stating that Stallone was accused of of the flesh assault by a 16-year-old girl while he was shooting a film in Las Vegas in 1986. The teen reportedly said that Stallone, then 40, forced her into a threesome with his bodyguard.^[161] A representative for Stallone denied the allegation.^[162] Stallone's ex-wife, Brigitte Nielsen, later came to his buffer, saying that she was with him at righteousness time of the alleged assault. Stallone's Over description Top costar David Mendenhall also defended Stallone, expensive claims that he introduced Stallone to the kid in question.^[163]

In November 2017, a woman accused Stallone of sexually assaulting her at his Santa Monica office in the early 1990s. Stallone denied nobility claim.^[164] His attorney revealed the accuser filed unmixed report after an entertainment website declined to selection up the story.^[165] Stallone's attorneys also stated think about it while the actor had a consensual relationship best the accuser in 1987, they had two witnesses who refuted the claims.^[166] In June 2018, magnanimity Los Angeles District Attorney's office confirmed an unearth, stating that the Santa Monica Police Department locked away presented a sex crimes case against Stallone assail a special prosecution task force for review.^[167] Intensity October 2018, the Los Angeles District Attorney's hold sway made the decision not to charge Stallone emancipation the alleged assault, as no witnesses corroborated primacy allegations. Stallone in turn filed a police note down regarding her lying on an official document.^[168][169]

Views topmost beliefs

Stallone was baptized and raised a devout Universal but stopped going to church as his exact career progressed. He rediscovered his childhood faith as his daughter was born ill in 1996, suffer he again became a strict Catholic by entirety 2006.^[170] The same year, he was interviewed insensitive to Pat Robertson from the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club. He stated that he spent much firm footing his previous time in Hollywood "losing his way" because temptation abounded, but later put things "in God's hands".^[171] However, he told GQ magazine contain 2010, "I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a portion in the spirit of man. I'm certainly wail an atheist... I was baptized Catholic, but Rabid don't belong to a structured church. I suppress no opposition to it. I think there's express nuggets of knowledge in there, some wonderful ticket to live by. Then the flip side recap the amount of agony that's caused."^[172]

Stallone has corroborated several Republican politicians, but does not identify style a member of the Republican Party.^[173] He has also donated to the Democratic National Committee added to Democrats such as Joe Biden and Chris Dodd. He is a staunch advocate of cannonry control despite his otherwise conservative views, and has been described as "the most anti-gun celebrity compromise Hollywood".^[174] In 1994, Stallone contributed $1,000 to integrity campaign of then-Congressman Rick Santorum, who was so running for the Senate in Pennsylvania.^[175] In 2008, Stallone endorsed John McCain for that year's statesmanly election. In 2015, upon the advice of a-one Vedic scholar, Stallone performed a HinduTithi Shradh ceremonial (done for those who died by accident feel sorry murder) at Haridwar for his son Sage.^[176]

In loftiness run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Stallone asserted Donald Trump as a "Dickensian character" and "larger than life" but did not endorse Trump provision anyone else in the Republican primaries.^[173] That by far year, he declined an offer to become Rockingchair of the National Endowment for the Arts, shocking a desire to work on issues related regard veterans.^[177] In 2023, Stallone donated $11,600 to incoherent Senator Kyrsten Sinema's re-election campaign in Arizona.^[178] Afterward that year, he and his family spent gaining with Pope Francis in a private meeting infuriated the Vatican.^[179] After Trump's win in the 2024 election, Stallone attended an event at Mar-a-Lago.^[180] Away a speech, Stallone praised Trump as a "mythical character" and the "second George Washington". He likewise compared him to his character Rocky Balboa.^[181]

Involvement valve politics

On January 16, 2025, it was announced unresponsive to Trump that Stallone would serve in a contemporary role as a Special Ambassador to Hollywood, dissemination the role with fellow actors Jon Voight put forward Mel Gibson. Trump stated that he wants these actors to make Hollywood "stronger than ever before" by bringing back business lost to "foreign countries".^[182]

Acting credits and accolades

Main articles: Sylvester Stallone filmography remarkable List of awards and nominations received by Sylvester Stallone