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Paul Walter Hauser

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Biography

Paul Walter Hauser (born October 15, 1986) is an American actor and wrestler. He is best known for portraying Stingray in the Netflix series Cobra Kai and providing the voice of Embarrassment in Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024). He played supporting roles in the films Super Troopers 2 (2018), Beats (2019), Adam (2020), Cruella (2021) and Old Dads (2023). In 2019, Hauser had his breakout performance as the title character in Clint Eastwood's drama film Richard Jewell. Hauser starred as murderer Larry Hall in the 2022 miniseries Black Bird, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. As an occasional professional wrestler, Hauser is signed to Major League Wrestling.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Resident Evil

As Paul

I, Tonya

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Inside Out 2

As Embarrassment (voice)

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

As Harvey Elder / Mole Man

Black Bird

As Larry Hall

Richard Jewell

As Richard Jewell

Cruella

As Horace

BlacKkKlansman

As Ivanhoe

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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

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When the Cult Kids Get the Keys

A journey through the moments when outsider directors were handed studio money and a famous franchise, from Sam Raimi's Darkman to the new Resident Evil. The re...

8 films

The Carrier Is Just Someone With a Job

Resident Evil (2026) turns a medical courier's bad night into a horror of logistics. This chain follows the outbreak film away from the lab and into the van, th...

8 films

The Art of the Fall

From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...

8 films

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