Sylvester Stallone Net Worth, 28 Badass Quotes & Movie List

In this post, we’ll share Sylvester Stallone Net worth, his short biography, and his some famous quotes.

Sylvester Stallone or Sylvester Enzio Stallone or Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is a popular American screenwriter, director, producer as well as a talented actor. He was born on July 6’ 1946 in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan New York City, USA.

The initial beginning of his career was a bit struggling just like any other common man striving hard to enter the film industry after arriving at NY City in 1969 and then to Hollywood in 1974. He then got his first break as an actor for co-starring as Stanley Rosiello in “The Lords of Flatbush”.

Most of his works include being inside roles or extra characters in films with a restricted budget until the time he managed to get a big commercial appearance.

Then in 1976, he start his influencing career with a role he himself created; boxer “Rocky Balboa” in his first major successful Rocky series from 1976 to 2018. The role involved portraying Rocky as a dud boxer who fought with innumerable ruthless challengers and eventually wins the world heavyweight tournament two times.

This film was even welcomed in “National Film Registry” the props used in the series are kept in “Smithsonian Museum”. When Sylvester Stallone use the “Philadelphia Museum of Art” front entrance to walk in the Rocky series, the area was renamed to be Rocky Steps, Philadelphia and the museum even has the stature of Rocky from the series placed near a museum and he was even voted for “International Boxing Hall of Fame”.

Early Life

Michael Sylvester is the eldest son of the family born to “Francesco ‘Frank’ Stallone Sr.”, a beautician, hairstylist, and “Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Stallone”, an astrologer, women wrestling promoter and a dancer. His father is Italian while his mother is French and Ukrainian-Jewish. Since his mother had suffered several complications in her labor, her obstetricians had to use two pairs of forceps for Sylvester’s delivery.

This misuse of forceps caused them to accidentally serve a nerve which lead to paralysis in parts of his face. The family moved to Washington, DC in the early 1950s for starting a beauty school, and then in 1954, his mother launched a women’s gym known as “Barbella’s”.

Later in 1957, when his parents separated with divorce, he initially stayed with his father only but at age of 15 joined his mother who was living in Philadelphia after remarrying.

Stallone had a school expulsion history and because of this, he was made to attend a private school that was meant for troubled teenagers. Then he attended the American College of Switzerland, where he began having an interest in acting, and then he returned to the USA to join the University of Miami.

Just before his graduation, he moved to New York where he was striving to find any work. However, in 1970, his first screen debut was made with an adult film, “The Party at Kitty and Stud’s”.

Then he appeared in movies with uncredited roles like “Woody Allen’s” and “Bananas and Klute” in 1971. During those days, he moved to Hollywood and got his first notable role in “The Lords of Flatbush” in 1974, which is based on Brooklyn teenagers of the 1950s.

Personal Life

Stallone has been married three times in his life. The first time he got married was on December 28, 1974, at the age of 28, with Sasha Czack. They had two sons together named; Sage Moonblood Stallone (born in 1976 but died at 36 of heart disease), and Seargeoh (born in 1979, and has autism).

Then on February 14’ 1985, they took divorced, later after which he married Brigette Nielsen, a model, and actress on December 15’ 1989. Unfortunately, their marriage lasted only for two years and their divorce was highly in a discussion.

And in May 1997, he again got married and this time the bride was Jennifer Flavin and he has three beautiful daughters; Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet, with her.

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Sylvester’s Career

Sylvester started his career with pornography for which he was paid $200 for two days shoot. Later he even explained the move was done by him out of desperation after being thrown out of his apartment and being homeless for many days.

He even slept at “Port Authority Bus Terminal” for three weeks in NY City. In 1972, when he was just on the verge of leaving acting, his disappointment was holding him from getting a role as a side character in one of the biggest hits of the year – “The Godfather”.

Following this, he got a background role for “What’s Up, Doc?” with “Barbra Streisand”. In 1973, he lands on a starring role in the movie “No Place to Hide”. Other of his few film roles were quite short roles like “MASH”, “Pigeons”, “Woody Allen’s Bananas”, “Klute”, and “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”.

In 1981, after his big appearance in the initial chapters of the Rocky series, he got an opportunity to star along with Michael Caine and Pele in “Escape to Victory”, a sports drama. Moreover, the same following year he appeared in the thriller movie “Nighthawks”.

Awards and achievements

Some of the awards received by Sylvester Stallone are

• Best Foreign Actor for Rocky in 1976
• In 1985, Favorite Movie Actor for Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV
• Honorary Cesar in 1992
• Male Star of the Year for 1992
• Best International Actor in 2004
• Best Supporting Actor for Creed in 2015

Sylvester Stallone’s Net Worth

The overall estimated Sylvester Stallone net worth is to be $400 million. The majority of his wealth comes from the big roles he managed. Stallone has done all whether it is a drama, comedy or thriller genre.

Nevertheless, it is also true that the majority of his success comes to him from action movies. He has various luxury cars like Camaro SS and Martin DBS. He even owns a 15,401 square foot mansion in LA.

He is also an active philanthropist who received the Heart of Hollywood Award in 2016 for his great work by the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors.

He has even auctioned the original props of Rocky for thousands of dollars and donated large portions of those to a charitable foundation for the US wounded service members and troupers.

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