Entertainment Movies Mickey Rourke Shares Gruesome Photo After Accident Leaves Him with Large Gash on His Face "Looks like my skateboarding days are over," the actor, 69, captioned a photo showing his scraped and bloody forehead By Dan Heching Dan Heching Dan Heching is a former digital news reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2022. People Editorial Guidelines Published on April 6, 2022 08:54PM EDT Photo: BG020/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images WARNING: Graphic photo below Mickey Rourke is putting down his skateboard for good after what looks to be a nasty spill. The Wrestler star, 69, shared a grisly selfie on Instagram on Tuesday, showing the top half of his face with a bloody gash and scrapes across his forehead. "Looks like my skateboarding days are over," Rourke wrote in the caption, adding an eye roll emoji. Mickey Rourke, 66, Looks Smitten with Girlfriend Anastassija Makarenko, 32, at Holiday Party The 9 1/2 Weeks star is no stranger to taking hard hits to the face and has undergone multiple facial surgeries. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "'I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone," he told the Daily Mail in 2009. RELATED VIDEO: The Masked Singer: Mickey Rourke Reveals His Identity as Gremlin Without Being Voted Out "Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing," the boxer-turned-actor said at the time. "But I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together." Mickey Rourke Says He's 'Pretty Again' After Recent Nose Job: 'One More to Go' While his skateboarding career may be at its end, Rourke's acting career is going strong as he has no less than 8 projects currently in the works. One, in pre-production, is a horror film titled Cursed opposite Lindsay Lohan, while another — titled 3 Days Rising — costars Ice-T.