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Jan 18, 2009 · Actress Debra married Mickey in 1981, just before he hit the big time. During their 10 years together she watched him change from a teetotal mummy's boy to a self-destructive cocaine fiend.
Sep 15, 1988 · Homeboy: Directed by Michael Seresin. With Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Debra Feuer, Thomas Quinn. A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planning a big score.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Michael Seresin
- 1988-09-15
Debra Lee Feuer is an American former actress. [1] She starred in the films Moment by Moment, The Hollywood Knights, To Live and Die in L.A., MacGruder and Loud, Il burbero and Homeboy: the latter in which she starred with her then-husband Mickey Rourke .
Debra Feuer How They Met: According to The Mirror, Rourke and Debra Feuer first met on the set of the TV movie Hardcase. They married in 1981, and a few years later, they co-starred in the film Homeboy. In 1989, however, Rourke took on a role that scandalized audiences as well as Feuer.
- He Was Born Philip Andre Rourke Jr.
- He Was Raised in Florida After His Mother re-married
- He Started Learning to Fight After Being Abused by His Stepfather
- He Had His First Boxing Match Aged 12
- At 17, He Sparred with A Former World Welterweight Champion
- He Notched Up 27 Boxing Wins Before Health Concerns Forced Him to Stop
- After Putting His Boxing Career on Hold, Rourke Took to The Stage
- His Audition For New York’s Actors Studio Was Declared “The Best in 30 Years”
- He Would Enlist Strangers Off The Street to Help Him Rehearse
- His First Two Movies Were Notorious Flops
The man we know as Mickey Rourke was born Philip Andre Rourke Jr. in Schenectady, New York on 16th September 1952. His father Philip Andre Rourke was an amateur body builder of Irish descent, whilst his mother Annette was of Scottish descent. Mickey was their first child. Philip and Annette had two more children – Mickey’s younger brother Joey, and...
Following her divorce from Philip Rourke, Mickey’s mother Annette went on to get married a second time, to Miami Beach police officer Eugene Addis. After the wedding, Annette, Mickey, Joey and Patty all relocated from Schenectady to Miami Beach, where the children would grow up. It was a busy household, as Addis already had five sons of his own. It...
Rourke has said that his stepfather Eugene had no love for him or his brother Joey, and that he was in fact physically abusive to both his young stepsons and their mother. This pushed the young Mickey to learn how to fight, in order to defend himself. Reportedly, Rourke started attending the Boys Club of Miami, and it was here that he first took cl...
Rourke had his first boxing match at the tender age of 12. Fighting in the flyweight division under the name Phil Rourke, he emerged victorious from his first venture into the ring, which encouraged him to pursue the sport further. As he advanced into his teenage years, Rourke grew physically, until he was fighting in the welterweight division at a...
It was whilst training at the Miami Beach Fifth Street Gym that a 17-year-old Rourke had one of his biggest moments as a young boxer. He served as a sparring partner for Luis Rodríguez, the former World Welterweight champion who was at the time the highest-rated middleweight boxer in the world. Rourke became his sparring partner when Rodríguez was ...
Fighting variously under the names Phil Rourke and Andre Rourke, Mickey’s young amateur boxing career was a very successful one. He was undefeated, with an eye-opening 27 wins to his name, 12 of which were knockout victories – and all this before he was even 21 years old. Unfortunately, Rourke suffered another concussion in the ring, and was advise...
Rourke had first acted in 1971, in a production of a play called The Serpent, whilst he was at Miami Beach Senior High School. While he was widely praised for his performance, Rourke did not pursue acting further at the time due to his focus on his boxing career. However, after being forced to step back from the ring, Rourke decided to gave the sta...
Rourke’s audition for the Actors Studio was seen by none other than Elia Kazan, director of the classic Marlon Brando movie On the Waterfront. An awestruck Kazan declared Rourke’s audition to be the best the Actors Studio had seen in 30 years.
On moving to New York, Rourke was a stranger in a strange land without much in the way of friends or connections. This posed a significant problem when the actor was rehearsing his scenes, as he had no partner to practice with. Because of this, Rourke says he took to asking random strangers to run lines with him. In a 2011 magazine interview, Rourk...
After working on the New York stage, Rourke headed west to Hollywood to break into the movies. Happily, his very first role was in the latest film from arguably the biggest name in the business at the time: director Steven Spielberg, fresh from his landmark blockbusters Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Unfortunately for Rourke, the film...
Johnny Walker ( Mickey Rourke) is a down-and-out boxer with brain damage who has recently moved into a sea-side resort. He falls in love with Ruby ( Debra Feuer ), a carnival owner with whom he shares much in common. He also befriends Wesley Pendergrass ( Christopher Walken ), a corrupt promoter.
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