Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching

The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013,

he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels.

In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival

Apollo Creed’s son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award,

as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior.

Since 2022, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King.Sylvester

Gardenzio Stallone[5][6][7] was born in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City’s Manhattan borough[8] on July 6, 1946,[9]

the elder son of women’s professional wrestling promoter Jacqueline “Jackie” Stallone (née Labofish; 1921–2020) and hairdresser

Francesco “Frank” Stallone Sr. (1919–2011). His mother was an American from Washington,

D.C. with Breton French[11] and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry, while his father was an Italian immigrant from Gioia del Colle[10] who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s.

[15][16] His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone.[10] Many biographies of Stallone indicate that his birth name is

“Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone” and his mother explained in an interview that she originally named him