Sylvester Stallone

Actor
Date Of Birth:
6 July 1946
Place Of Birth:
New York City, New York
Sylvester Stallone took Hollywood by storm in 1976, writing and starring in the blockbuster hit Rocky. The film, with Stallone as the low-rent Philadelphia puglist Rocky Balboa, won the Academy Award for best picture and nominations for Stallone as best actor and best original screenplay. For the next decade, Sylvester Stallone was one of Hollywood's top box-office draws; by 1990 he had made a total of five Rocky movies and three movies as Rambo, a tortured Vietnam veteran with a thirst for swift justice. Stallone has also tried his hand at comedy (1991's Oscar, with Tim Curry, and 1998's Antz, with Woody Allen) and serious drama (1997's Cop Land, with Robert DeNiro and Janeane Garofolo), but he remains best known as an action hero. A sixth film in the Rocky series, titled Rocky Balboa, was released in 2006; then, in 2015, he played an aging Rocky as a supporting role in another sequel, Creed, and was nominated for an Oscar 40 years after his first nominations. Sylvester Stallone's other movies include Cliffhanger (1993), Judge Dredd (1995), Get Carter (2000), and The Expendables (2010). Stallone has also dabbled in business: with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, he was an early stockholder and celebrity endorser of the Planet Hollywood chain of restaurants when it was launched in 1991.
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Sylvester Stallone’s nickname is “Sly”… He has also been called “The Italian Stallion,” his character’s nickname in Rocky… Stallone has been married three times, and has five children from those marriages. He was married to the former Sasha Czack from 1974 until their divorce in 1985; they had two sons, Sage Moonblood (b. 1976) and Seargeoh (b. 1979). Stallone was then married to actress Brigitte Nielsen (who appeared with him in Rocky IV) from 1985 until their divorce in 1987; they had no children. Stallone married model Jennifer Flavin (b. 14 August 1968) in 1997, and they have three daughters: Sophia Rose (b. 1996), Sistine Rose (b. 1998) and Scarlet Rose (b. 2002)… Sage Stallone played Rocky Balboa, Jr. in the 1990 film Rocky V… Sylvester Stallone’s brother, Frank Stallone, is also an actor.

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