Mickey Rourke
From watching Mickey Rourke’s career, it might look like he has been reincarnated multiple times since he shot to fame in the 80s. Starting off as a serious teen heartthrob, Mickey soon felt the pressures of fame and left Hollywood relatively early in his career and returned to the passion he had in his formative years- boxing. In 1991 Rourke won six out of eight games (including four knockouts to boot!)
After his few ring victories, the actor was ready for another knockout round, this time on camera. In the 2000s made his big come-back role in his Oscar-nominated performance in the 2008 film, The Wrestler. How fitting!
John Goodman
John Goodman is a big guy and actually tried to take his talents in the direction of a football career. This was at a time where he was even dabbling in the world of theater, so you know it must have been a true passion. By the year 1970, Goodman had already achieved a sports scholarship at Southwest Missouri State University.
He was on his way, but unfortunately, a bad injury put things on hold. It was at that point where Goodman decides to perhaps reinvestigate that other thing that he was doing in high school...Acting. in 1975, the actor survived on odd jobs and commercial work in New York City. Finally, in 1988, he landed his iconic role in Roseanne.
Geena Davis
Trust the unique and incomparable Geena Davis to be involved in one of the most unusual sports in the world. The actress who is truly in a league of her own was and still is an avid archer. According to HuffPost, Davis was ranked the 13th overall best archer in the U.S and in 1999 came in 24th in the Olympic Trials.
What's more, the Thelma and Louise star took up the game on a whim at the age of 41 and trained like crazy for 2 1/2 years. We would have loved to see her take home a gold medal.
Matthew Perry
Friends icon, Matthew Perry, is a huge sports fan. His favorite teams are the Toronto Blue Jays, the Ottawa Senators, and the New England Patriots. As a kid in Ottawa, he grew up playing tennis, becoming a top-ranked national Canadian player. That all changed when he moved to California to live with his dad. Perry told Men’s Health magazine, “I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. I realized I wouldn’t be playing tennis for a living, so I went for acting.”
Like Chandler, he hit the Hollywood jackpot, earning one million dollars per episode! The insanely popular show ran for ten seasons. Perry starred in several other television shows and movies, but nothing compared with the massive success of Friends. In his spare time, he supports sober living by running the Perry House, a rehab he converted out of his former Malibu mansion. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Perry spent some time in rehab struggling with addiction.
John Cena
The 16-time world WWE champion and has matched up with some pretty terrifying wrestlers and beat them (we're talking to you, Batista, and The Rock.) His time on WWE was also pretty glamorous. With a lot of charisma and a killer entrance song, John Cena could certainly work up a crowd. Known for being really loved or really despised, Cena would get simultaneous chants of “Let’s go Cena!” and “Cena sucks!”
In 2006, the wrestling star boldly took the plunge and landed his first leading role in the film The Marine. That was just the start. Soon John Cena dispersed his comedy chops in films like Trainwreck alongside Amy Schumer and Blockers. His latest action-packed film is Fast and Furious 9.