Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1969-01-18 (Age: 57)
Place of Birth
Washington, D.C., USA
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.
Filmography (156)
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
2026
The Wrecking Crew
2026
Trap House
2025
Afterburn
2025
The Naked Gun
2025
In the Lost Lands
2025
The Last Showgirl
2024
Jack in Time for Christmas
2024
The Killer's Game
2024
My Spy The Eternal City
2024
Parachute
2024
Dune: Part Two
2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023
