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Sylvester "Sly" Stallone was born on July 6, in New York's "Hell's Kitchen." An accident at birth caused by forceps severed a nerve in his cheek, leaving his lower left face paralyzed; this manifested as Stallone's trademark slurred speech and drooping lower lip. After Stallone's parents, Jackie and Frank Stallone, were divorced in , he moved from New York to the suburbs of Philadelphia. He lived there with his mother and her new husband Anthony Filiti, a pizza manufacturer. The teenager attended a private Catholic School in Center City Philadelphia called Notre Dame Academy. He then attended Lincoln High School but after failing to complete tenth grade, he was enrolled in Devereux Manor High School for emotionally troubled youths; Stallone was expelled from fourteen schools by the age of thirteen. At Devereux Manor, the teenager took up football, the discus, and began lifting weights. When it was time to graduate, he was awarded an athletic scholarship to the American College of Sw
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Sylvester Stallone rose to fame as the writer and lead of the Academy Award-winning boxing film Rocky (). He went on to become one of the biggest action stars in the world, reprising his characters from Rocky and First Blood () for several sequels. Following a mid-career decline, he rediscovered box-office success with The Expendables () and earned critical acclaim for reviving the Rocky franchise with Creed (), garnering his first Golden Globe win and another Oscar nomination.
Early Life
Actor, writer, director and producer Stallone was born on July 6, , in New York City. His trademark droopy visage was the result of a forceps accident at the time of his birth. A nerve was severed in the accident, which also left him with slurred speech.
Stallone had a difficult childhood. Both he and his younger brother, Frank, were adversely affected by their parents’ hostile relationship, which later ended in divorce. Stallon
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Sylvester Stallone
American actor and filmmaker (born )
"Stallone" redirects here. For other people with this name, see Stallone (name).
Sylvester Gardenzio "Sly" Stallone (; born July 6, ) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades.[1][2]
Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in , Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote.[3] In , he beca