A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado
Mercedes KV
Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado
Mercedes Moné
Mercedes Varnado
Miss Mercedes
Sasha Banks
The Boss
مرسدس وارنادو
メルセデス・ケストナー・バーナード
Birthplace:
Fairfield, California, USA
Born:
January 26, 1992
Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado is an American professional wrestler and actress. She has been signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since January 2024, where she performs under the ring name Mercedes Moné and has held the AEW TBS Championship. She has also competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and its sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she won the Strong Women's Championship, and in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where she captured the Undisputed British Women's Championship. Varnado rose to prominence in WWE from 2012 to 2022 under the ring name Sasha Banks, becoming one of the company’s most decorated women’s wrestlers. In August 2025, she made history by simultaneously holding nine championships across multiple promotions, cementing her reputation as one of the most accomplished female wrestlers of all time. She remains the first and only woman to win championships in WWE, AEW, and NJPW.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.