<P> Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum . His use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, and Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum . It was announced on December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category . </P> <P> In 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor . He became the third man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles . Stallone received positive reviews, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and a third Academy Award nomination, for reprising the role of Rocky Balboa in Ryan Coogler's 2015 film Creed . </P> <P> Stallone was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, of Manhattan, New York City, the elder son of Frank Stallone Sr. (1919--2011), a hairdresser and beautician, and Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone (née Labofish, born in 1921), an astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of women's wrestling . Stallone's father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s . Stallone's mother is of half French (from Brittany) and half Ukrainian Jewish (from Soviet Union, Odessa) descent . His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone . </P> <P> Complications his mother suffered during labor forced her obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps during his birth; misuse of these accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of Stallone's face . As a result, the lower left side of his face is paralyzed--including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin--an accident which has given Stallone his snarling look and slightly slurred speech . Stallone was baptized Catholic . His father moved the family to Washington, D.C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school . His mother opened a women's gymnasium called Barbella's in 1954 . He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College and the University of Miami . </P>

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