Mickey Rourke, 72, was spotted outside his Los Angeles home on August 11, the first public sighting of the Oscar-nominated actor since he returned to the United States following a brief and troubled appearance on the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother.

Rourke has lived many lives, even by Hollywood standards — after developing a reputation as a big-screen hunk in ’80s classics like 9 1/2 Weeks and Angel Heart (and an off-screen bad boy who often had his name in the news due to his hard-partying behavior), Rourke withdrew from the world of film to pursue a career in professional boxing. After a tentative return to acting in the late ’90s, Rourke developed a full-scale comeback, with starring roles in 2005’s Sin City and 2008’s The Wrestler, a part which snagged him a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Most recently, he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, but left early in April after numerous incidents with other housemates, including allegations of inappropriate comments made to Jojo Siwa, Ella Rae Wise, and Chris Hughes. In April, Rourke reported that he was planning on suing ITV, the network that airs Celebrity Big Brother, claiming that he was paid only one-tenth of his original promised fee.

Though Rourke looks unrecognizable not just from his ’80s heyday but also his 2000s comeback, he is still working steadily — he appeared in two 2020 episodes of The Masked Singer, and according to IMDB.com, he has a whopping seven films currently in post-production, including A Walking Miracle, directed by Daniel Baldwin. Rourke’s last major starring roles were in 2010’s The Expendables, and 2014’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

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