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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in
New York City), usually known as Sylvester
Stallone, is an United States|American film actor,
film director|director, film producer|producer,
and screenwriter.  He is often referred to by his
nickname, "Sly". He achieved his greatest
successes in a number of action films, notably the
Rambo and Rocky series.

== Early days ==
As a child, Stallone was nicknamed "Binky." When
kids began to substitute, for this, "Stinky," Sly
decided to name himself "Mike." In fact, in some
of his earlier work, he is credited as "Michael
Stallone." Sylvester studied drama at the
University of Miami, though he dropped out and
returned to New York to appear in a few small
Off-Broadway plays.

One might say that the Hollywood bug caught him in
Brooklyn.  Stallone, as one of his few odd jobs,
ushered at the Loews Kings Theater in Flatbush,
Brooklyn. 

== Career ==
Stallone's career actually began with an
appearance in a pornographic film. Called Party at
Kitty and Stud's, it was considered hard-core at
the time, but would be considered soft-core by
today's standards (as though graphic depictions of
genitals are featured, including Stallone's,
actual close-up shots of penetration are not
shown.) After Stallone's later success the film
was re-packaged as The Italian Stallion.

Stallone's first film roles were very small. He
had a brief appearance in the Jack Lemmon vehicle
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1974). He had a
starring role in the cult hit The Lords Of
Flatbush (1974). In 1975 he was featured in
Farewell, My Lovely and Capone. Stallone also
appeared in guest shots on the popular television
series' Police Story and Kojak. 

Stallone didn't gain wide fame until his starring
role in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote in only
three days and sold with the rider that he would
play the lead. This was a box office success, and
went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Stallone had been a lifelong boxing fan and used
"Bayonne Bleeder" Chuck Wepner's surprising
performance in his 1975 title bout with Muhammed
Ali as partial inspiration for the plot.

Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for
Rocky. However, his attempts to expand his range
floundered and he was forced to return to the
Rocky franchise a number of times (1976, 1982,
1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. This link
with boxing extended to hosting reality TV show
The Contender (television series)|The Contender. 
He tried his hand at directing as well as writing
with Rocky II, Rocky III|III and Rocky IV|IV. 
With the success of the Rocky films, Stallone gave
professional wrestler Hulk Hogan his first
mainstream exposure as Thunderlips in 1982's Rocky
III, two years before he hit it big as the
champion of the World Wrestling
Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation.

Stallone has also directed and co-written several
other films, such as Tango and Cash and the sequel
to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive.  His other
early successes were as Rambo|John Rambo in First
Blood, released in (1982), and its sequels, Rambo:
First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. In Rambo III,
Stallone's character is portrayed fighting
alongside the Mujahideen, some of which later
formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. He also
appeared in the 1986 movie, Cobra (movie)|Cobra,
and the 1987 arm wrestling movie Over the Top.
Stallone was recently awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award by the USA Academy of Science
Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films. 

In the 1990s, Stallone had further box-office wins
with a number of action movies, including
Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993, for which
he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993)
and Judge Dredd (1995).  He still sought to expand
his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997)
(for which his understated performance won
critical praise) and a voice role in Antz (1998),
but his $15 million-plus paychecks are still only
offered for more lively action roles. 

In 1991, Stallone worked with Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Keith
Barish and Robert Earl to co-found Planet
Hollywood, a worldwide chain of Hollywood-themed
restaurants filled with memorabilia and
merchandise. Stallone later sued Kenneth Starr (no
relation to the independent counsel to the
Whitewater scandal|Whitewater investigation), his
one-time business manager, for advising him to
hold his shares in the restaurant chain, despite
its falling value and eventual bankruptcy.

Currently, Stallone has just finished wrapping up
the first season of his boxing reality series The
Contender (it has been renewed for a second
season) and is working on a film about the murders
of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.. He is
also set to star in yet another Rambo film. Both
are scheduled to be released in 2006.

== Personal life ==
His trademark sneer, lazy eyes, and slurred speech
are the result of paralysis in the left side of
his face caused by birth complications.  While
Stallone's "official" height has always been put
at 5 feet 10 inches, he is actually believed by
many, as first reported in Us (magazine)|Us Weekly
magazine, to be only 5 feet 7 inches (170
metre|cm).

Stallone's family include former chart-topping
singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie
Stallone|Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle
1990s as an Astrology|astrologer and Sage
Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V
and in Stallone's 1996 Movie, Daylight.

He has been married three times, to Sasha Czack
(1974-1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1985-1987), and
Jennifer Flavin (1997-present). He has five
children, sons Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh, who is
autistic (with Czack, born 1976 and 1979
respectively), and daughters Sophia Rose, Sistine
Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin, born 1996,
1998, 2002 respectively).

==Trivia==
* Not all of the films in which he's appeared are
in the English language. He made a cameo
appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he
spoke what appeared to be fluent French. 
* He was born on the same date as President of the
United States|President George W. Bush.

==Filmography==

*Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970) 
*Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
*Bananas (movie)|Bananas (1971)
*Klute (1971)
*The Lords of Flatbush (1974) (also writer)
*No Place to Hide (1975)
*The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
*Capone (1975)
*Death Race 2000 (1975)
*Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
*Cannonball (1976)
*Rocky (1976) (also writer)
*F.I.S.T. (1978) (also writer)
*Paradise Alley (1978) (also director and writer)
*Rocky II (1979) (also director and writer)
*Nighthawks (1981)
*Victory (1981)
*Rocky III (1982) (also director and writer)
*First Blood (1982) (also writer)
*Staying Alive (1983) (Cameo) (also director,
producer, and writer)
*Rhinestone (1984) (also writer)
*Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) (also writer)
*Rocky IV (1985) (also director and writer)
*Cobra (movie)|Cobra (1986) (also writer)
*Over the Top (1987) (also writer)
*Rambo III (1988) (also writer)
*Lock Up (1989)
*Tango & Cash (1989)
*Rocky V (1990) (also writer)
*Oscar (1991 movie)|Oscar (1991) 
*Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! (1992)
*Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993) (also
writer)
*Demolition Man (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*The Specialist (1994)
*Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject)
*Judge Dredd (1995)
*Assassins (1995)
*Daylight (1996)
*The Good Life (1997) 
*Cop Land (1997)
*An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
(Cameo)
*Antz (1998) (voice)
*Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
*Get Carter (2000) 
*Driven (2001) (also writer)
*D-Tox (2002)
*Avenging Angelo (2002)
*Taxi 3 (2003) (Cameo)
*Shade (2003)
*Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
*Rambo IV (2006)  (currently in pre-production)
(also producer)
*Notorious (2006) (currently announced start of
production) (also director and producer)

==External links==
* http://www.sylvesterstallone.com/ Official site
* imdb name|id=0000230|name=Sylvester Stallone
* http://www.nndb.com/people/761/000023692/
Sylvester Stallone profile, NNDB.
* http://www.ncaaticketsnow.com/miami-tickets.asp
University of Miami: Famous Alumni.

 

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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in
New York City), usually known as Sylvester
Stallone, is an United States|American film actor,
film director|director, film producer|producer,
and screenwriter.  He is often referred to by his
nickname, "Sly". He achieved his greatest
successes in a number of action films, notably the
Rambo and Rocky series.

== Early days ==
As a child, Stallone was nicknamed "Binky." When
kids began to substitute, for this, "Stinky," Sly
decided to name himself "Mike." In fact, in some
of his earlier work, he is credited as "Michael
Stallone." Sylvester studied drama at the
University of Miami, though he dropped out and
returned to New York to appear in a few small
Off-Broadway plays.

One might say that the Hollywood bug caught him in
Brooklyn.  Stallone, as one of his few odd jobs,
ushered at the Loews Kings Theater in Flatbush,
Brooklyn. 

== Career ==
Stallone's career actually began with an
appearance in a pornographic film. Called Party at
Kitty and Stud's, it was considered hard-core at
the time, but would be considered soft-core by
today's standards (as though graphic depictions of
genitals are featured, including Stallone's,
actual close-up shots of penetration are not
shown.) After Stallone's later success the film
was re-packaged as The Italian Stallion.

Stallone's first film roles were very small. He
had a brief appearance in the Jack Lemmon vehicle
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1974). He had a
starring role in the cult hit The Lords Of
Flatbush (1974). In 1975 he was featured in
Farewell, My Lovely and Capone. Stallone also
appeared in guest shots on the popular television
series' Police Story and Kojak. 

Stallone didn't gain wide fame until his starring
role in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote in only
three days and sold with the rider that he would
play the lead. This was a box office success, and
went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Stallone had been a lifelong boxing fan and used
"Bayonne Bleeder" Chuck Wepner's surprising
performance in his 1975 title bout with Muhammed
Ali as partial inspiration for the plot.

Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for
Rocky. However, his attempts to expand his range
floundered and he was forced to return to the
Rocky franchise a number of times (1976, 1982,
1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. This link
with boxing extended to hosting reality TV show
The Contender (television series)|The Contender. 
He tried his hand at directing as well as writing
with Rocky II, Rocky III|III and Rocky IV|IV. 
With the success of the Rocky films, Stallone gave
professional wrestler Hulk Hogan his first
mainstream exposure as Thunderlips in 1982's Rocky
III, two years before he hit it big as the
champion of the World Wrestling
Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation.

Stallone has also directed and co-written several
other films, such as Tango and Cash and the sequel
to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive.  His other
early successes were as Rambo|John Rambo in First
Blood, released in (1982), and its sequels, Rambo:
First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. In Rambo III,
Stallone's character is portrayed fighting
alongside the Mujahideen, some of which later
formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. He also
appeared in the 1986 movie, Cobra (movie)|Cobra,
and the 1987 arm wrestling movie Over the Top.
Stallone was recently awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award by the USA Academy of Science
Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films. 

In the 1990s, Stallone had further box-office wins
with a number of action movies, including
Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993, for which
he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993)
and Judge Dredd (1995).  He still sought to expand
his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997)
(for which his understated performance won
critical praise) and a voice role in Antz (1998),
but his $15 million-plus paychecks are still only
offered for more lively action roles. 

In 1991, Stallone worked with Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Keith
Barish and Robert Earl to co-found Planet
Hollywood, a worldwide chain of Hollywood-themed
restaurants filled with memorabilia and
merchandise. Stallone later sued Kenneth Starr (no
relation to the independent counsel to the
Whitewater scandal|Whitewater investigation), his
one-time business manager, for advising him to
hold his shares in the restaurant chain, despite
its falling value and eventual bankruptcy.

Currently, Stallone has just finished wrapping up
the first season of his boxing reality series The
Contender (it has been renewed for a second
season) and is working on a film about the murders
of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.. He is
also set to star in yet another Rambo film. Both
are scheduled to be released in 2006.

== Personal life ==
His trademark sneer, lazy eyes, and slurred speech
are the result of paralysis in the left side of
his face caused by birth complications.  While
Stallone's "official" height has always been put
at 5 feet 10 inches, he is actually believed by
many, as first reported in Us (magazine)|Us Weekly
magazine, to be only 5 feet 7 inches (170
metre|cm).

Stallone's family include former chart-topping
singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie
Stallone|Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle
1990s as an Astrology|astrologer and Sage
Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V
and in Stallone's 1996 Movie, Daylight.

He has been married three times, to Sasha Czack
(1974-1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1985-1987), and
Jennifer Flavin (1997-present). He has five
children, sons Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh, who is
autistic (with Czack, born 1976 and 1979
respectively), and daughters Sophia Rose, Sistine
Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin, born 1996,
1998, 2002 respectively).

==Trivia==
* Not all of the films in which he's appeared are
in the English language. He made a cameo
appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he
spoke what appeared to be fluent French. 
* He was born on the same date as President of the
United States|President George W. Bush.

==Filmography==

*Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970) 
*Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
*Bananas (movie)|Bananas (1971)
*Klute (1971)
*The Lords of Flatbush (1974) (also writer)
*No Place to Hide (1975)
*The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
*Capone (1975)
*Death Race 2000 (1975)
*Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
*Cannonball (1976)
*Rocky (1976) (also writer)
*F.I.S.T. (1978) (also writer)
*Paradise Alley (1978) (also director and writer)
*Rocky II (1979) (also director and writer)
*Nighthawks (1981)
*Victory (1981)
*Rocky III (1982) (also director and writer)
*First Blood (1982) (also writer)
*Staying Alive (1983) (Cameo) (also director,
producer, and writer)
*Rhinestone (1984) (also writer)
*Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) (also writer)
*Rocky IV (1985) (also director and writer)
*Cobra (movie)|Cobra (1986) (also writer)
*Over the Top (1987) (also writer)
*Rambo III (1988) (also writer)
*Lock Up (1989)
*Tango & Cash (1989)
*Rocky V (1990) (also writer)
*Oscar (1991 movie)|Oscar (1991) 
*Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! (1992)
*Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993) (also
writer)
*Demolition Man (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*The Specialist (1994)
*Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject)
*Judge Dredd (1995)
*Assassins (1995)
*Daylight (1996)
*The Good Life (1997) 
*Cop Land (1997)
*An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
(Cameo)
*Antz (1998) (voice)
*Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
*Get Carter (2000) 
*Driven (2001) (also writer)
*D-Tox (2002)
*Avenging Angelo (2002)
*Taxi 3 (2003) (Cameo)
*Shade (2003)
*Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
*Rambo IV (2006)  (currently in pre-production)
(also producer)
*Notorious (2006) (currently announced start of
production) (also director and producer)

==External links==
* http://www.sylvesterstallone.com/ Official site
* imdb name|id=0000230|name=Sylvester Stallone
* http://www.nndb.com/people/761/000023692/
Sylvester Stallone profile, NNDB.
* http://www.ncaaticketsnow.com/miami-tickets.asp
University of Miami: Famous Alumni.

 

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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in
New York City) is an United States|American film
actor, film director|director, film
producer|producer, and screenwriter.  He is often
referred to by his nickname, "Sly". He achieved
his greatest successes in a number of action
films, notably the Rambo and Rocky series.

== Early days ==
As a child, Stallone was nicknamed "Binky." When
kids began to substitute, for this, "Stinky," Sly
decided to name himself "Mike." In fact, in some
of his earlier work, he is credited as "Michael
Stallone." Sylvester studied drama at the
University of Miami, though he dropped out and
returned to New York to appear in a few small
Off-Broadway plays.

One might say that the Hollywood bug caught him in
Brooklyn.  Stallone, as one of his few odd jobs,
ushered at the Loews Kings Theater in Flatbush,
Brooklyn. 

== Career ==
Stallone's career actually began with an
appearance in a pornographic film. Called Party at
Kitty and Stud's, it was considered hard-core at
the time, but would be considered soft-core by
today's standards (as though graphic depictions of
genitals are featured, including Stallone's,
actual close-up shots of penetration are not
shown.) After Stallone's later success the film
was re-packaged as The Italian Stallion.

Stallone's first film roles were very small. He
had a brief appearance in the Jack Lemmon vehicle
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1974). He had a
starring role in the cult hit The Lords Of
Flatbush (1974). In 1975 he was featured in
Farewell, My Lovely, Capone and another cult hit
Death Race 2000. Stallone also appeared in guest
shots on the popular television series' Police
Story and Kojak. 

Stallone did not gain wide fame until his starring
role in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote in only
three days and sold with the rider that he would
play the lead. This was a box office success, and
went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Stallone had been a lifelong boxing fan and used
"Bayonne Bleeder" Chuck Wepner's surprising
performance in his 1975 title bout with Muhammad
Ali as partial inspiration for the plot.

Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for
Rocky. However, his attempts to expand his range
floundered and he was forced to return to the
Rocky franchise a number of times (1979, 1982,
1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. This link
with boxing extended to hosting reality TV show
The Contender (television series)|The Contender. 
He tried his hand at directing as well as writing
with Rocky II, Rocky III|III and Rocky IV|IV. 
With the success of the Rocky films, Stallone gave
professional wrestler Hulk Hogan his first
mainstream exposure as Thunderlips in 1982's Rocky
III, two years before he hit it big as the
champion of the World Wrestling
Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation.

Stallone has also directed and co-written several
other films, such as Tango and Cash and the sequel
to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive.  His other
early successes were as Rambo|John Rambo in First
Blood, released in (1982), and its sequels, Rambo:
First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. In Rambo III,
Stallone's character is portrayed fighting
alongside the Mujahideen, some of which later
formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. He also
appeared in the 1986 movie, Cobra (movie)|Cobra,
and the 1987 arm wrestling movie Over the Top.
Stallone was recently awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award by the USA Academy of Science
Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films. 

In the 1990s, Stallone had further box-office wins
with a number of action movies, including
Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993, for which
he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993)
and Judge Dredd (1995).  He still sought to expand
his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997)
(for which his understated performance won
critical praise) and a voice role in Antz (1998),
but his $15 million-plus paychecks are still only
offered for more lively action roles. 

In 1991, Stallone worked with Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Keith
Barish and Robert Earl to co-found Planet
Hollywood, a worldwide chain of Hollywood-themed
restaurants filled with memorabilia and
merchandise. Stallone later sued Kenneth Starr (no
relation to the independent counsel to the
Whitewater scandal|Whitewater investigation), his
one-time business manager, for advising him to
hold his shares in the restaurant chain, despite
its falling value and eventual bankruptcy.

Currently, Stallone has just finished wrapping up
the first season of his boxing reality series The
Contender (it has been renewed for a second
season) and is working on a film about the murders
of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.. He is
also set to star in yet another Rambo film. Both
are scheduled to be released in 2006.

== Personal life ==

His trademark sneer, lazy eyes, and slurred speech
are the result of paralysis in the left side of
his face caused by birth complications.  While
Stallone's "official" height has always been put
at 5 feet 10 inches, he is actually believed by
many, as first reported in Us (magazine)|Us Weekly
magazine, to be only 5 feet 7 inches (170
metre|cm).

Stallone's family include former chart-topping
singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie
Stallone|Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle
1990s as an Astrology|astrologer and Sage
Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V
and in Stallone's 1996 Movie, Daylight.

He has been married three times, to Sasha Czack
(1974-1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1985-1987), and
Jennifer Flavin (1997-present). He has five
children, sons Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh, who is
autistic (with Czack, born 1976 and 1979
respectively), and daughters Sophia Rose, Sistine
Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin, born 1996,
1998, 2002 respectively).

==Trivia==

* Not all of the films in which he's appeared are
in the English language. He made a cameo
appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he
spoke what appeared to be fluent French. 
* He was born on the same date as President of the
United States|President George W. Bush.

==Filmography==

*Notorious (2006) (currently announced start of
production) (also director and producer)
*Rambo IV (2006)  (currently in pre-production)
(also producer)
*Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
*Shade (2003)
*Taxi 3 (2003) (Cameo)
*Avenging Angelo (2002)
*D-Tox (2002)
*Driven (2001) (also writer)
*Get Carter (2000) 
*Antz (1998) (voice)
*Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
*The Good Life (1997) 
*Cop Land (1997)
*An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
(Cameo)
*Daylight (1996)
*Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject)
*Judge Dredd (1995)
*Assassins (1995)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*The Specialist (1994)
*Cliffhanger (movie)|Cliffhanger (1993) (also
writer)
*Demolition Man (1993)
*Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! (1992)
*Oscar (1991 movie)|Oscar (1991) 
*Rocky V (1990) (also writer)
*Lock Up (1989)
*Tango & Cash (1989)
*Rambo III (1988) (also writer)
*Over the Top (1987) (also writer)
*Cobra (movie)|Cobra (1986) (also writer)
*Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) (also writer)
*Rocky IV (1985) (also director and writer)
*Rhinestone (film) | Rhinestone (1984) (also
writer)
*Staying Alive (1983) (Cameo) (also director,
producer, and writer)
*Rocky III (1982) (also director and writer)
*First Blood (1982) (also writer)
*Nighthawks (1981)
*Victory (1981)
*Rocky II (1979) (also director and writer)
*F.I.S.T. (1978) (also writer)
*Paradise Alley (1978) (also director and writer)
*Cannonball (1976)
*Rocky (1976) (also writer)
*No Place to Hide (1975)
*The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
*Capone (1975)
*Death Race 2000 (1975)
*Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
*The Lords of Flatbush (1974) (also writer)
*Bananas (movie)|Bananas (1971)
*Klute (1971)
*Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
*Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970) aka Italian
Stallion (Softcore)

==External links==
* http://www.sylvesterstallone.com/ Official site
* imdb name|id=0000230|name=Sylvester Stallone
* http://www.nndb.com/people/761/000023692/
Sylvester Stallone profile, NNDB.
* http://www.ncaaticketsnow.com/miami-tickets.asp
University of Miami: Famous Alumni.