Sylvester Stallone

 Sylvester Enzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker and producer. He was born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone on July 6, 1946. His first significant part in The Lords of Flatbush was as Stanley Rosiello, after he was a struggling actor for a number of years. Stallone had steady work as an actor or screenwriter in films that had big budgets until he achieved his highest critical and commercial success in acting and screenwriting. The role he played as Rocky Balboa in the first Rocky film (1976-1999) was his first. [2] In the movies, Rocky is portrayed as an underdog boxer who battles several brutal opponents, and wins the world heavyweight championship twice.In 1977, Stallone was the third actor in cinema to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. Rocky the film of Stallone was inducted into National Film Registry and its props were exhibited in the Smithsonian Museum. The Rocky Steps were named after Stallone's choice of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's front entryway in Rocky. Stallone was recognized by being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Philadelphia now has a permanent statue of him in the role of Rocky. This changed with the successful action film First Blood in which he played the PTSD-afflicted soldier John Rambo. First Blood was originally an adaptation of the novel written by David Morell. However, Stallone made significant changes to the script during filming. 3. Stallone played the part in a total of five Rambo films (1982-2019). From the mid-1980s until the end of the 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of the most lucrative Hollywood actors of the time by acting in a myriad of successful action films which were however generally panned by critics. These included Cobra, Tango and Cash as well as Cliffhanger.