Dave Bautista

David Michael “Dave” Bautista Jr. is an actor and former professional wrestler from America. Beginning his career as one of the biggest stars of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), he has also built an impressive résumé as an actor over the course of the last ten years. Raised in a multi-cultural, poverty-stricken family, Bautista left home at the age of 17 and did a series of off-the-wall jobs before turning his attention to professional bodybuilding. From 2000 to 2010 and then from 2013 to 2014, Bautista wrestled for WWE under the ring name Batista. He was crowned the World Heavyweight Champion four times and the WWE Champion twice. He has also won the Royal Rumble twice, the World Tag Team Championship three times, and the WWE Tag Team Championship once. Batista still holds the record for holding the World Heavyweight Championship for the longest time at 282 days. He has headlined WWE’s flagship event WrestleMania several times. After debuting as an actor in the 2006 comedy film ‘Relative Strangers’, Bautista has become one of the most sought-after character actors in the industry today. His breakthrough role came about in 2014, when he was cast as Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. Besides reprising the role in two other Marvel movies, Bautista played a Bond villain in the 2015 release ‘Spectra’ and was part of the stellar cast of one of the most important science fiction films of the recent times, ‘Blade Runner 2049’. In 2011, he received the Hitflics.com Performer of the Year for his performance in the action comedy, ‘House of the Rising Sun’.