Ancestry of
Mickey Rourke
Movie Actor
Who is Mickey Rourke?
Mickey Rourke is an award-winning American actor and a professional boxer. He won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson in the 2008 film The Wrestler. The role also earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Rourke received critical acclaim for his roles in Diner (1982), Barfly (1987), Angel Heart (1987), Sin City (2005) and Iron Man 2 (2010). He also appeared in Body Heat (1981), 9 ½ Weeks (1986), and many other films. From 1991 to 1994, Rourke left acting to become a professional boxer. He sustained severe facial injuries during his boxing career, which required multiple reconstructive surgeries.
Famous Kin
Mickey Rourke is among those who can trace their ancestry all the way back to Charlemagne due to his royal ancestry. Other notable ancestors are William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, several French and English Kings, quite a few Magna Carta sureties, a Mayflower passenger, and two accused and one executed for witchcraft at Salem in 1692.
U. S. presidential kin for Mickey Rourke include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Franklin Pierce and Rutherford Hayes. He also has a number of state governors in his family tree including Bill Weld (MA), Jeb Bush (FL), Patrick Henry (VA), Sarah Palin (AK), William Sprague (RI), James Youngs Smith (RI), Edwin Morgan (NY), Augustus French (IL), Jacob Dolson Cox (OH), Morgan Bulkeley (CT), and Cadawallader Washburn (WI).
Fellow celebrities that are kin to Mickey Rourke include Playboy Magazine’s Hugh Hefner, actress Jane Fonda, chef and author Julia Child, actress Sally Field, singer James Taylor, author Ernest Hemingway and many others.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Mickey Rourke
George Albert Smith
8th President of the Mormon Church
9th cousin 3 times removed
via John Riddlesdale
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
8th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Kimball Jr.
Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper
United States Navy
7th cousin 2 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.
Samuel P. Colt
Founder of U.S. Rubber Co. (now Uniroyal)
6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.
Henry B. Quinby
52nd Governor of New Hampshire
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Geoffrey le Scrope
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Mickey Rourke image by Anton Belickiy (CC BY 2.0)
