Sylvester Stallone Biography

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 a nomination for Stallone as best actor. For the next decade Stallone was a top box-office draw; 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 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. 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. Sylvester Stallone's other movies include Cliffhanger (1993), Judge Dredd (1995), Get Carter (2000), and The Expendables (2010).