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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) 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. Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). At the height of his career, Stallone was known for his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), 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's 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. He also starred in the sequel Creed II (2018) and portrayed Stakar Ogord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Regarded as an icon of action cinema, Stallone is credited with helping redefine the Hollywood action hero. He has occasionally ventured from the action genre, with mixed results. He starred in the comedies Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), both of which had modest success. He also starred in the 1997 drama Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed his sculpted physique and gained weight for his role as a powerless sheriff. In television, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King (2022-present). In addition to his film work, Stallone is a noted art collector and painter and has written books on fitness.
John Rambo receives a letter from a man named Corbin, who claims he matched Rambo from an online DNA test. It turns out that Rambo had fathered a son with a Ukrainian immigrant during his brief return to the States after the events of "First Blood Part II", although Rambo has no recollection of it. The two have a father-son bonding experience before Corbin returns to his mother's homeland to teach at a university. A few months later, Russia invades Ukraine. Corbin is able to contact his father one last time before the Russians bombard the city and kill scores of civilians, asking Rambo to rescue him. Worried that his son has been killed or captured, Rambo meets with a group of sixteen foreign fighters who came to aid Ukraine. They make their way to Corbin's town, but are wiped out in an ambush at the university, leaving Rambo and three others as the only survivors. When the four men are taken to the university square, it is revealed that Corbin is the leader of the forces that captured the northeastern-most part of the country. He tells Rambo the truth: He is Kazimir Podovsky, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky, Rambo's nemesis from 1985. Rambo promises to kill Kazimir. The survivors are taken to a prison camp in Siberia to be worked to death. Rambo eventually escapes to Ukraine and kills Kazimir, Vladimir Putin, and Steven Segal. He returns to the States and becomes intrigued when Jehovah's Witnesses show him a Bible promise of a world without war.
