Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; Italian pronunciation: [(ɡarˈdɛntsjo) stalˈloːne]; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone,[4] is an American actor, screenwriter and film director.[5] Stallone is well known for his Hollywood action roles, particularly boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky series'seven films from 1976 to 2015, soldier John Rambo from the four Rambofilms, which ran from 1982 to 2008, and Barney Ross in the three The Expendables films from 2010 to 2014. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in the three franchises, and directed many of the films.
Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing's Hall of Fame.[6]
In 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the third man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin andOrson Welles[7] and followed by Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Billy Bob Thornton, Matt Damon and Roberto Benigni.[8]
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