Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 18, 1969
Place of Birth
Washington, D.C., USA
Credits
209 titles
Dave Bautista
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.
Known For
Filmography
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Tagah (voice)
The Wrecking Crew
James Hale
Trap House
Ray Seale
Afterburn
Jake
The Naked Gun
Dave Bautista
In the Lost Lands
Boyce
WWE Raw Classics
Batista
The Last Showgirl
Eddie
Jack in Time for Christmas
Self
The Killer's Game
Joe Flood
My Spy The Eternal City
J.J.
Parachute
Bryce
Dune: Part Two
Beast Rabban
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Self - 'Drax'
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Drax
Knock at the Cabin
Leonard
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Drax
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Duke Cody
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
WWE This Is Awesome
Batista
WWE Rivals
Batista
Thor: Love and Thunder
Drax
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Batista
Mek Raya
Dune
Beast Rabban Harkonnen
Creating an Army of the Dead
Self
Army of the Dead
Scott Ward
Marvel Studios Legends
Drax the Destroyer (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meeting the Undertaker
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Fezzik
Undertaker: The Last Ride
Self
The Firefly Funhouse Match
Batista (archive footage)
The Best of WWE
Batista
Ruthless Aggression
Batista
My Spy
J.J.
See
Edo Voss
Stuber
Vic Manning
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Trent DeRosa
All That
Self
Avengers: Endgame
Drax
Dark Side of the Ring
Batista (archive footage)
WWE WrestleMania 35
Batista
What We Do in the Shadows
Garrett the Vampire
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Davidson
WWE Untold
Final Score
Michael Knox
Hotel Artemis
Everest
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Trent DeRosa
Avengers: Infinity War
Drax
Blade Runner 2049
Sapper Morton