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Silvester Stallone’s Life Story

Actor, writer, director, and producer Sylvester Stallone was born on

July 6, 1946, in New York City. One of the most popular action stars
of all time, Stallone is best known for portraying two heroic
characters on the big screen—boxer Rocky Balboa and Vietnam
War veteran John Rambo.
Stallone had a difficult childhood. Both he and younger brother
Frank were adversely affected by their parents’ hostile relationship,
which later ended in divorce. When Stallone was around five years
old, his father moved the family to the Washington, D.C. area.
Stallone lived in Maryland for years, staying with his father after his
parents' divorce in 1957. He was mortified, he struggled emotionally
and academically.
A few years later, Stallone went to live with his mother and her
second husband in Philadelphia. There, he attended a special high
school for troubled youth. After graduation, Stallone eventually went
on to college. First, he attended the American College in
Switzerland, where he studied drama. Stallone then went to the
University of Miami, again choosing to focus on the dramatic arts.

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He left school before completing his degree to move to New York

City to pursue an acting career.
Back in the day, Stallone was a struggling actor in every definition.
At some point, he got so broke that he stole his wife’s jewelry and
sold it. Things got so bad that he even ended up homeless. Unable
to pay rent or afford food, real misery. His lowest point came when
he did not have money to feed his dog anymore, so he sold it at $25
only. “I walked away crying,” he once said in an interview.
Two weeks later, he saw a boxing match between Mohammed Ali
and Chuck Wepner and that match gave him the inspiration to write
the script for the famous movie, ROCKY. He wrote the script for 20
hours! He tried to sell it and got an offer for $125,000 for the
screenplay. He had just one request. He wanted to be the main
actor in the movie, but the studio wanted a real star.
Today, the same Stallone, who slept in the streets and sold his dog
just because he could not even feed it anymore, is one of the
greatest movie stars who ever walked the Earth, and this was
possible because he never gave up.

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