Oh Mickey You're So Fine

Mickey Rourke is certainly doing fine again, as we saw on Sunday when he won his first Golden Globe award, for his role in The Wrestler. This victory not only revived his career, which declined in the '90s, when he left Hollywood to pursue boxing, but is very likely the comeback of the year.

In the '80s, Rourke broke through in films such as Body Heat and The Outsiders, and soon ascended to sex symbol status with the erotic drama, 9? Weeks, reported NY Daily News. His performances, filled with intensity, confidence, and of course his handsome looks, led to comparisons with Marlon Brando and James Dean.

Personal problems motivated him to leave acting for boxing toward the end of the '80s, leading to his divorce from wife, model Carre Otis, as well as plastic surgery operations due to boxing injuries. In the late '90s, he held more minor roles, and for a period of roughly ten years was out of work and in therapy, according to MTV.com.

The Wrestler, in which Rourke spellbindingly portrays the tribulations and last chance for glory for a wrestler named Randy "The Ram" Robinson, therefore somewhat reflects his own life.

Rourke is expected to be in the leading nominees for the Oscars, and will also be starring in the 2010 sequels to Iron Man and Sin City. The man who once was lost has risen again.