15 Facts About Mickey Rourke

1. In 2015, Mickey Rourke expressed his support for Ben Carson for the Republican presidential nomination.

2. In January 2009, Mickey Rourke expressed admiration for Bush in an interview with GQ magazine.

3. In May 1989, Mickey Rourke revealed that he had donated most of his £1.5 million earnings from the film Francesco to support Joe Doherty in his campaign for political asylum in the United States.

4. Since 2009, Mickey Rourke has been in a relationship with Russian model Anastassija Makarenko.

5. In 1994, Mickey Rourke was arrested on suspicion of spousal abuse.

6. In 2010, Mickey Rourke played the role of the main villain Whiplash in the film Iron Man 2.

7. In early 2009, Mickey Rourke developed a small feud with WWE wrestler Chris Jericho, as part of a storyline.

8. In 2005, Mickey Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City.

9. In 2001, Mickey Rourke appeared as the villain in Enrique Iglesias's music video for "Hero", which featured Jennifer Love Hewitt.

10. In 1991, Mickey Rourke decided that he "had to go back to boxing" because he felt that he "was self-destructing.

11. In 1989 Mickey Rourke starred in the docudrama Francesco, portraying St Francis of Assisi.

12. In the late 1980s, Mickey Rourke performed with David Bowie on the Never Let Me Down album.

13. At the 1971 Florida Golden Gloves, Mickey Rourke suffered another concussion in a boxing match.

14. Since then, Mickey Rourke has appeared in several commercially successful films, including the 2010 films Iron Man 2 and The Expendables and the 2011 film Immortals.

15. In 2005, Mickey Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards, and the Online Film Critics Society.