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Dave Bautista

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Dave Bautista

Born Jan 18, 1969 · 57 years209 titles 168 movies · 41 TV
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Biography

David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Batista · Dave Batista · Deacon Batista · David Bautista · Leviathan · The Animal · David Micheal Bautista Jr. · The Animal Unleashed · The Evolution Animal · Demon of the Deep

Born

Jan 18, 1969

Washington, D.C., USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

209

Acting credits

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Directing

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Writing

14

Other crew

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Career timeline

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1953 1 title(s)

1985 1 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1993 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1997 1 title(s)

1999 1 title(s)

2001 2 title(s)

2002 4 title(s)

2003 4 title(s)

2004 7 title(s)

2005 14 title(s)

2006 7 title(s)

2007 18 title(s)

2008 18 title(s)

2009 13 title(s)

2010 10 title(s)

2011 5 title(s)

2012 6 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)

2014 15 title(s)

2015 7 title(s)

2016 4 title(s)

2017 7 title(s)

2018 6 title(s)

2019 8 title(s)

2020 7 title(s)

2021 4 title(s)

2022 8 title(s)

2023 3 title(s)

2024 6 title(s)

2025 5 title(s)

2026 2 title(s)

Undated 11 title(s)