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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Actor · b. 1946 · New York City, New York, USA

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) 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.

Movies24

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    The Suicide Squad

    2021 · 9.9K votes

  • Movie7.5

    First Blood

    1982 · 7.1K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Men in Black

    1997 · 15K votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Expendables

    2010 · 8.5K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Rambo: First Blood Part II

    1985 · 4.5K votes

  • Movie6.0

    Expend4bles

    2023 · 2K votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Expendables 3

    2014 · 5.5K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Creed

    2015 · 8.1K votes

  • Movie7.8

    Rocky

    1976 · 8.9K votes

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    Demolition Man

    1993 · 4.3K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Rambo: Last Blood

    2019 · 4.3K votes

  • Movie7.0

    Creed II

    2018 · 5.9K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Rambo

    2008 · 4.4K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Escape Plan

    2013 · 5.7K votes

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    The Expendables 2

    2012 · 7.3K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Rocky Balboa

    2006 · 3.9K votes

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    Rambo III

    1988 · 3.6K votes

  • Movie5.9

    Judge Dredd

    1995 · 2.8K votes

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    Antz

    1998 · 4.9K votes

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    Rocky IV

    1985 · 5K votes

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    Cliffhanger

    1993 · 2.7K votes

  • Movie5.1

    Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

    2003 · 2.4K votes

Series24

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    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    2019 · 72 votes

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    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

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    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

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    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

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    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

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    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV6.8

    CBS News Sunday Morning

    1979 · 24 votes

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    GMTV

    1993 · 14 votes

  • TV8.2

    This Is Us

    2016 · 1.7K votes

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    The Sherri Shepherd Show

    2022 · 15 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

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    Tulsa King

    2022 · 2.8K votes

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

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    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    The Johannes B. Kerner Show

    1998 · 4 votes

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    Las Vegas

    2003 · 269 votes

  • TV4.3

    Taff

    1997 · 6 votes