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Dave Bautista

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Blade Runner 2049

As Sapper Morton

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

As Tagah (voice)

Avengers: Infinity War

As Drax

Guardians of the Galaxy

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

As Drax

Dune: Part Two

As Beast Rabban

Dune

As Beast Rabban Harkonnen

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

As Drax

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen

From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.

10 films

The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For

Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...

8 films

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