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Dave Bautista (b. 1969)

Alias:
Batista
Dave Batista
David Bautista
David Micheal Bautista Jr.
Deacon Batista
Demon of the Deep
Leviathan
The Animal
The Animal Unleashed
The Evolution Animal
Ντέιβ Μπαουτίστα
Дэйв Батиста
דייוויד מייקל "דייב" באוטיסטה ג'וניור
دیو باتیستا
デイヴ・バウティスタ
戴夫·巴帝斯塔
데이브 바티스타

Birthplace:
Washington, D.C., USA

Born:
January 18, 1969

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Executive Producer:
2024  The Killer's Game
????  Dreadnought
????  Trap House

Producer:
2018  Final Score
2018  Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
2020  My Spy
2024  My Spy The Eternal City
2024  The Killer's Game
2025  Afterburn
2025  In the Lost Lands
????  Cooler
????  Dreadnought
????  The Wrecking Crew
????  Trap House
????  Unleashed
????  Untitled FBI Wedding Sting Film

Stunts:
2007  WWE No Way Out 2007
2010  Wrong Side of Town
2018  Final Score
2018  Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
2020  My Spy
2024  My Spy The Eternal City
2024  The Killer's Game
2025  Afterburn
2025  In the Lost Lands
????  Cooler
????  Dreadnought
????  The Wrecking Crew
????  Trap House
????  Unleashed
????  Untitled FBI Wedding Sting Film

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