Mickey Rourke, 72, was spotted outside his Los Angeles home on August 11, the first public sighting of the Oscar-nominated actor since he returned to the United States following a brief and troubled appearance on the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother.
Rourke has lived many lives, even by Hollywood standards — after developing a reputation as a big-screen hunk in ’80s classics like 9 1/2 Weeks and Angel Heart (and an off-screen bad boy who often had his name in the news due to his hard-partying behavior), Rourke withdrew from the world of film to pursue a career in professional boxing. After a tentative return to acting in the late ’90s, Rourke developed a full-scale comeback, with starring roles in 2005’s Sin City and 2008’s The Wrestler, a part which snagged him a Best Actor Oscar nomination.