Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010\u2013present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed\u2019s son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. Since 2022, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King.Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone[5][6][7] was born in the Hell\u2019s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City\u2019s Manhattan borough[8] on July 6, 1946,[9] the elder son of women\u2019s professional wrestling promoter Jacqueline \u201cJackie\u201d Stallone (n\u00e9e Labofish; 1921\u20132020) and hairdresser Francesco \u201cFrank\u201d Stallone Sr. (1919\u20132011). His mother was an American from Washington, D.C. with Breton French[11] and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry, while his father was an Italian immigrant from Gioia del Colle[10] who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s.[15][16] His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone.[10] Many biographies of Stallone indicate that his birth name is \u201cMichael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone\u201d and his mother explained in an interview that she originally named him \u201cTyrone\u201d because she admired the actor Tyrone Power, but Stallone\u2019s father changed it to \u201cSylvester\u201d. His nickname as a child was \u201cBinky\u201d but he chose to go by the nickname of Mike\/Michael after schoolmates began calling him \u201cStinky\u201d.[5][6][7] His middle name \u201cGardenzio\u201d is an alteration of the Italian given name \u201cGaudenzio\u201d and he usually shortened it to \u201cEnzio\u201d.<\/p>\n