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Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York CitySylvester Stallone is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is often referred to by his nickname, "Sly". He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the

Career

Stallone was born to Frank Stallone Sr. (a beautician who was an immigrant from Castellammare del Golfo Sicily) and Jacqueline "Jackie" Labofish, an American astrologer of 14 Russian Jewish descent. Stallone's career began with an appearance in a soft-core pornographic film called . The film was originally hard core and depicted sexual acts, but the repackaging was censored to have scenes end just before any hard core action would take place. After Stallone's later success the film was re-packaged as , (1976), awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture. Stallone had written the screenplay and had tried to sell it to a Hollywood studio for years, finally succeeding, and with the rider that he would play the lead. was nominated for ten Academy Awards in all, including two for Stallone himself, for Best Actor and for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to winning Best Picture, cost about US$1.1 million to make, and grossed about US$225 million worldwide. Stallone had been a lifelong boxing fan and used "Bayonne Bleeder" Chuck Wepner's surprising performance in his 1975 title bout with Muhammad Ali as partial inspiration for the plot.

Stallone's subsequent attempts to expand his range floundered and he was forced to return to the franchise a number of times (1979, 1982, 1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. This link with boxing later extended to hosting reality TV show films, Stallone gave professional wrestler Hulk Hogan his first mainstream exposure, as the character Thunderlips in 1982's , two years before Hogan hit it big as the champion of the World Wrestling Federation.

Stallone has also directed and co-written several other films, such as

His trademark sneer, lazy eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications. While Stallone's "official" magazine, to be only 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm).

Stallone's family include former chart-topping singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle 1990s as an astrologer and Sage Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's and in Stallone's 1996 Movie, Daylight. He is said to have had an affair with Pamela Anderson.

He has been married three times, to Sasha Czack (1974-1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1985-1987), and Jennifer Flavin (1997-present). He has five children, sons Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh, who has autism (with Czack, born 1976 and 1979 respectively), and daughters Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin, born 1996, 1998, 2002 respectively).

Not all of the films in which he's appeared are in the English language. He made a cameo appearance in the French film Stallone was paid a mere $60,000 to do Cop Land (1997). It is said that he did the film to play a serious role and escape his action hero cast type.As of 2004 is the all time Razzie Award champion, with a record 30 nominations and 10 "wins", more than any other person in history.He joins Roberto Benigni, Prince, Kevin Costner, William Shatner, and Tom Green as being the only actors to direct themselves in performances that would "win" them a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.Listed as one of the top heroes of all time by American Film Institute (AFI) on 2003, he listed seventh as Rocky Balboa behind Gregory Peck(Atticus Finch), Harrison Ford(Indiana Jones), Sean Connery(James Bond), Humphrey Bogart(Rick Blaine), Gary Cooper(Will Kane) and Jodie Foster(Clarice Starling)., was being hired for sexparties at $50,000 a time, Stallone joked that for $50,000 he'd turn up in person.sup title="Needs citation"