Mickey Rourke, 52:
There was a time when Mickey Rourke was so seductive that he could entice a
blindfolded Kim Basinger to devour the entire contents of her
fridge, and make it rain blood while having sexy times with Lisa Bonet. His acting chops even invited Brando comparisons,
... morealthough his bad behavior
eventually led him to put his big-screen career on hold. In the early '90s, he
became a professional boxer, a decision that helped destroy his good looks, a
disturbing disfigurement seemingly made worse by one too many trips under the
knife, a charge he denies. "Somebody said to me the other day, 'You don't look
like you used to,'" he recalled to Entertainment Weekly in October 2008. "But
who does? I mean, when I was boxing I had six nose operations, I had cartilage
taken from behind my ear, I had short-term memory loss, I've got an equilibrium
problem, I don't have as many teeth in my head as I used to." When asked if his
pugilistic pursuits were perhaps a "subconscious attempt" to erase the handsome
face that made him famous, he acknowledges, "There may be some validity to
that." It's only fitting that Rourke's comeback began in earnest with "Sin City," in which he was hidden behind prosthetics to play a
scar-covered, flat-topped heavy named Marv. And though his visage is irrevocably
altered, his talent remains: He's already generating award buzz for "The Wrestler," a role that left its mark. For one scene in the
ring, Rourke purposely sliced his forehead with a razor, adding yet another scar
to his once good-looking mug. Close