Dave Bautista
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
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Undertaker: The Last Ride
7.4
Smallville
8.2
Raw
6.761
See
8.102
WWE Superstars
7.4
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
10
WXW Rage TV
0
Chuck
7.72
WWE SmackDown
7.5
Marvel Studios Legends
7.382
WWE 24
6.6
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.3
Raw
6.761
WWE This Is Awesome
10
The Late Late Show with James Corden
5.312
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
7.467
WWE ECW
6.6
Head Case
6.286
WWE Velocity
6.2
WWE SmackDown
7.5
WWE Rivalries
7
WWE Untold
10
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.853
Raw
6.761
What We Do in the Shadows
7.989
The View
4.5
All That
7.6
Ruthless Aggression
7.5
Room 104
5.732
The Best of WWE
9.7
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
6.8
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Lie Detector
10
WWE Raw Classics
0
The Jennifer Hudson Show
6.4
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.061
The Oscars
7
Saturday Night's Main Event
8.2
Movies
Wrong Side of Town
5.314
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
0
Being James Bond
7.7
Knock at the Cabin
6.277
WWE Survivor Series 2005
8.8
WWE RAW 15th Anniversary
10
House of the Rising Sun
4.4
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
7.7
WWE Royal Rumble 2003
7.611
WWE Royal Rumble 2004
6.964
WWE Survivor Series 2004
8.6
WWE SummerSlam 2004
8.6
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
4.586
WWE Royal Rumble 2005
7.982
WWE WrestleMania 23
8.2
WWE WrestleMania XX
8.4
WWE WrestleMania 21
8.3
Riddick
6.327
The Man with the Iron Fists
5.518
WWE Royal Rumble 2008
7.442
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
7.783
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
8.117
WWE SummerSlam 2008
7.5
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
6.9
Guardians of the Galaxy
7.905
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
6.6
WWE Backlash 2007
7.5
The Wrecking Crew
0
WWE The Great American Bash 2006
8.3
WWE Survivor Series 2006
7.1
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
8.1
WWE Over the Limit 2010
6.8
WWE New Year's Revolution 2005
8.8
WWE Vengeance 2004
7.7
WWE Unforgiven 2004
8.2
WWE No Way Out 2005
5.5
WWE The Great American Bash 2005
7.8
WWE Backlash 2005
8
WWE SummerSlam 2005
7.2
WWE Vengeance 2005
8.9
WWE No Mercy 2005
7.6
WWE Judgment Day 2002
7.8
WWE Taboo Tuesday 2005
7.7
WWE Armageddon 2005
7
WWE Global Warning
7.4
WWE Armageddon 2002
5.8
WWE SummerSlam 2006
7
WWE No Mercy 2006
7.4
WWE Armageddon 2006
8.1
WWE Armageddon 2003
6.3
WWE No Way Out 2007
8.4
WWE Judgment Day 2007
7.3
WWE One Night Stand 2007
7.5
WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007
7.6
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
6.6
WWE Unforgiven 2007
7.6
WWE SummerSlam 2007
6.2
WWE No Way Out 2008
6.9
WWE Backlash 2008
8.1
WWE Survivor Series 2007
8.2
WWE No Mercy 2007
6.8
WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
6.3
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
6.5
WWE One Night Stand 2008
8.2
WWE Night of Champions 2008
7.6
WWE The Great American Bash 2008
7.4
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008
8
WWE No Mercy 2008
7.4
WWE Unforgiven 2008
8
WWE Survivor Series 2008
7.3
WWE Armageddon 2008
7.7
WWE Backlash 2009
7.4
WWE Judgment Day 2009
6.9
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
7.7
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
6.4
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
8
WWE Survivor Series 2009
8.2
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
7.1
WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man
7.8
WWE Elimination Chamber 2014
6.714
WWE Armageddon 2007
6.5
WWE No Way Out 2003
8
WWE WrestleMania XXX
7.9
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
5.8
Thor: Love and Thunder
6.41
WWE Extreme Rules 2014
7
WWE Payback 2014
7.5
Batista: The Animal Unleashed
6
Unleashed
0
The Firefly Funhouse Match
8.5
Spectre
6.558
Cooler
0
L.A. Slasher
4.859
Kickboxer: Vengeance
5.067
The Last Showgirl
6.5
OVW Christmas Chaos
0
Afterburn
0
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
7.613
My Spy The Eternal City
6.634
Biography: Edge
9
WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time
8.3
Heist
6.113
WWE: Greatest Superstars of the 21st Century
0
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
7
Marauders
5.8
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
0
Parachute
6.3
Grendel
0
Blade Runner 2049
7.6
Avengers: Infinity War
8.2
The Warriors Gate
6.6
Final Score
6.1
Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere
8.8
WWE: The Undertaker's Deadliest Matches
9.2
Bushwick
5.134
Hotel Artemis
6.054
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
6.7
Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn
7.9
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
6.5
Escape Plan 2: Hades
5.165
WWE: Best of the 2000's
7.5
2048: Nowhere to Run
6.812
Escape Plan: The Extractors
5.412
Stuber
6.63
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6.033
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
7.941
Dune
7.781
WWE WrestleMania 35
7.4
My Spy
6.875
Army of the Dead
6.229
The Killer's Game
6.4
Trap House
0
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
8.4
Randy Orton: The Evolution of a Predator
7.1
Dogtown
0
Avengers: Endgame
8.2
WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary
9.5
Batista - I Walk Alone
7
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
10
WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber
10
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
10
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3
10
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
7.714
WWE: The History Of The World Heavyweight Championship
5.3
WWE: Hell in a Cell - The Greatest Hell in a Cell Matches of All Time
10
WWE: Triple H: The King of Kings - There is Only One
7.583
WWE: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero
10
The Destruction of The Shield
8.5
WWE: Undertaker 20-0 - The Streak
8.8
Dune: Part Two
8.146
Universe's Most Wanted
0
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
7.107
In the Lost Lands
6.485
Relative Strangers
5.2
The John Cena Experience
7.8
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
7.051
Creating an Army of the Dead
6
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
5.796
Alpha Gang
0
Jack in Time for Christmas
5
Untitled FBI Wedding Sting Film
0
The Undertaker: 15-0
0
The John Cena Experience
8
Dreadnought
0
Guardians Inferno
0
The Rock vs. John Cena: Once In A Lifetime
0