Paul Wight
Acting • Born 1972-02-08
Biography
Paul Donald Wight II is a European American professional basketball player, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant and with WWE from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name Big Show. He is 7’4” and weighs 550 lbs. He wears size 24 10E shoes Wight began his career in 1994. In 1995 he signed with WCW, where, due to his very large frame, he was known by the ring name The Giant (and was initially introduced as "the son of André the Giant"). In early 1999, he left WCW to join WWE. Between WWE and WCW, he is a seven-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWE Championship twice, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles. He is also an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. Having also won the Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore championships, he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. He also won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WCW and WWF/WWE since 1995, including the 2000 edition of WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania. Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as Jingle All the Way, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's comedy-dramas Royal Pains, Psych and the action-drama Burn Notice. He had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show.
Filmography
330 credits
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2014
Movie • 2014
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Night of Champions 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XXVII
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
Knucklehead
Movie • 2010
Walter Krunk
WWE Survivor Series 2001
Movie • 2001
The Big Show
WWE Over The Limit 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE Bragging Rights 2010
Movie • 2010
The Big Show
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Elimination Chamber 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE RAW 1000
Movie • 2012
WWE Royal Rumble 2015
Movie • 2015
The Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
AEW Double or Nothing 2023: The Buy In
Movie • 2023
Himself
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
Movie • 2010
Big Show
Little Hercules
Movie • 2009
Marduk
WWE Elimination Chamber 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
World Wrestling Peace Festival
Movie • 1996
WWE Royal Rumble 2003
Movie • 2003
The Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE Wrestlemania XIX
Movie • 2003
The Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2004
Movie • 2004
The Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2004
Movie • 2004
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Vengeance 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania 22
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2000
Movie • 2000
The Big Show
WWE WrestleMania 2000
Movie • 2000
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2012
Movie • 2012
The Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XX
Movie • 2004
The Big Show
WWE WrestleMania 21
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2011
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2009
Movie • 2009
The Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XXVIII
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Money In The Bank 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Hell In A Cell 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
Goldberg - Who's Next?
Movie • 1999
The Giant
WWE Royal Rumble 2001
Movie • 2001
The Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania 32
Movie • 2016
The Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show (Ringside)
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2014
Movie • 2014
Big Show
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show (Ringside)
WWE WrestleMania 29
Movie • 2013
The Big Show
WWE Royal Rumble 2013
Movie • 2013
The Big Show
The Hardys: Woken
Movie • 2018
WWE Money in the Bank 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1
Movie • 2011
The Giant
WWE Elimination Chamber 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE Backlash 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE vs. ECW: Head to Head
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WCW Bash at the Beach 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WWE Unforgiven 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
AEW All In 2023: London - Zero Hour
Movie • 2023
Paul Wight
WWE No Way Out 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2004
Movie • 2004
Big Show
WWE Unforgiven 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XXV
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania X-Seven
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XV
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE Unforgiven 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE The Great American Bash 2006
Movie • 2006
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WWE Backlash 2000
Movie • 2000
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Over the Edge
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE Backlash: In Your House
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE King of the Ring 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE Fully Loaded 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE Rebellion 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE Armageddon 1999
Movie • 1999
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2000
Movie • 2000
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE Over the Limit 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE Insurrextion 2000
Movie • 2000
The Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2000
Movie • 2000
Big Show
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE Backlash 2001
Movie • 2001
The Big Show
WWE Insurrextion 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2001
Movie • 2001
The Big Show
WWE InVasion
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE No Mercy 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE Rebellion 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE No Mercy 2004
Movie • 2004
Big Show
WWE Armageddon 2004
Movie • 2004
Big Show
WWE Vengeance 2001
Movie • 2001
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Unforgiven 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Insurrextion 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Taboo Tuesday 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Armageddon 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE Vengeance 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE New Year's Revolution 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Armageddon 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Fastlane 2017
Movie • 2017
Big Show
WWE Backlash 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Backlash 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE Vengeance 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE No Mercy 2003
Movie • 2003
Big Show
WWE Cyber Sunday 2006
Movie • 2006
Big Show
ECW December to Dismember
Movie • 2006
Big Show
WWE Backlash 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Battleground 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE Night of Champions 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE One Night Stand 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE No Mercy 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Judgment Day 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Survivor Series 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Breaking Point 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Night of Champions 2009
Movie • 2009
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
Movie • 1995
The Giant
WWE WrestleMania 31
Movie • 2015
Big Show
WCW SuperBrawl VI
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Uncensored 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Slamboree 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WWE Over The Limit 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show (Appearance)
WCW Hog Wild 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Fall Brawl 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Halloween Havoc 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW World War 3 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Starrcade 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
nWo Souled Out 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW SuperBrawl VII
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW Spring Stampede 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW Uncensored 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW Bash at The Beach 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW Road Wild 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW Fall Brawl 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WCW World War 3 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WCW The Great American Bash 1996
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Souled Out 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Spring Stampede 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Slamboree 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Uncensored 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Halloween Havoc 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW The Great American Bash 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Bash at the Beach 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Road Wild 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW World War 3 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WCW Starrcade 1998
Movie • 1998
The Giant
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
Movie • 2014
Big Show
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
Movie • 2014
The Big Show
WWE WrestleMania XXX
Movie • 2014
Big Show
WWE King of the Ring 2002
Movie • 2002
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE Survivor Series 2014
Movie • 2014
Big Show
WWE No Mercy 2002
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Super Tuesday
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
WWE Fastlane 2015
Movie • 2015
Big Show
OVW Christmas Chaos
Movie • 2001
The Big Show
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
Movie • 2006
The Giant
WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time
Movie • 2010
The Big Show
WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches
Movie • 2012
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J
Movie • 2015
Big Show
WWE Extreme Rules 2015
Movie • 2015
Big Show
The Greatest Superstars of the 21st Century
Movie • 2011
Big Show
WWE: The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE Money in the Bank 2015
Movie • 2015
Big Show
WWE Battleground 2015
Movie • 2015
Big Show (Appearance)
Superstar Collection: Daniel Bryan
Movie • 2014
Big Show
Vendetta
Movie • 2015
Victor Abbott
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.3
Movie • 2015
The Giant
WWE's Biggest Knuckleheads
Movie • 2011
WWE Live From MSG 2015
Movie • 2015
Big Show
Jingle All the Way
Movie • 1996
Huge Santa
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
Movie • 2011
The Big Show / The Giant
WWE Royal Rumble 2016
Movie • 2016
Big Show
WWE Fastlane 2016
Movie • 2016
Big Show
WWE No Way Out 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE Unforgiven 2008
Movie • 2008
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
Movie • 2016
The History of The WWE Hardcore Championship
Movie • 2016
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
Movie • 2024
Ham Hand (voice)
WWE WrestleMania 33
Movie • 2017
Big Show (Preshow)
MacGruber
Movie • 2010
Brick Hughes
WWE: The Undertaker's Deadliest Matches
Movie • 2010
Big Show
WWE WrestleMania 36: Part 2
Movie • 2020
Big Show (Dark Match)
WWE Royal Rumble 2017
Movie • 2017
Big Show
The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania
Movie • 2017
Big Show (voice)
WWE: True Giants
Movie • 2014
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2005
Movie • 2005
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2017
Movie • 2017
Big Show
WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series
Movie • 2017
WWE Hall of Fame 2018
Movie • 2018
Big Show
WWE: Brock Lesnar: Here Comes the Pain
Movie • 2003
Self
Reggie's Prayer
Movie • 1996
Mr. Portola
WWE Survivor Series 2018
Movie • 2018
Big Show (Ringside)
Fighting with My Family
Movie • 2019
Big Show
WWE SummerSlam 2015
Movie • 2015
The Big Show
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
Movie • 2014
The Big Show
The Waterboy
Movie • 1998
Captain Insano
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
Movie • 2014
Big Show
The Very Best of Monday Nitro: Volume 2
Movie • 2013
The Giant
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
Movie • 2012
Big Show (archive footage)
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
Movie • 2012
The Giant
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2012
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
Movie • 2014
Big Show
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 2
Movie • 2014
Big Show
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
Movie • 2015
Big Show
The History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE: Hell in a Cell - The Greatest Hell in a Cell Matches of All Time
Movie • 2008
Big Show
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
Movie • 2013
Big Show
WWE: The New & Improved DX
Movie • 2007
Big Show
You Think You Know Me? The Story of Edge
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man
Movie • 2012
Big Show
The Rise & Fall of WCW
Movie • 2009
The Giant
WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber
Movie • 2010
Big Show
Sting: Into the Light
Movie • 2015
The Giant
WWE The Great American Bash 2012: Super Smackdown Live!
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
Movie • 2013
WWE: Undertaker 20-0 - The Streak
Movie • 2012
The Big Show
Marcus
Movie • 2022
Gus Hoffman
WWE: The U.S. Championship: A Legacy of Greatness
Movie • 2016
Big Show (archive footage)
NXT TakeOver: WarGames II
Movie • 2018
(archive footage)
WWE Hell In A Cell 2014
Movie • 2014
Big Show
WCW World War 3 1995
Movie • 1995
The Giant
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXII
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXIII
Movie • 1996
The Giant
WCW Starrcade 1997
Movie • 1997
The Giant
nWo: The Revolution
Movie • 2012
Big Show
WWE St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House
Movie • 1999
The Big Show
WWE Clash of Champions 2020
Movie • 2020
Big Show (Appearance)
WWE Survivor Series 2020
Movie • 2020
Big Show (Appearance)
McCinsey's Island
Movie • 1998
Little Snowflake
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name Is Paul Heyman
Movie • 2014
Himself
The John Cena Experience
Movie • 2011
Big Show (archive footage)
AEW Double or Nothing 2021
Movie • 2021
Paul Wight
WWE Best of Raw & SmackDown Live 2017
Movie • 2018
Big Show
WWE The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2015
Movie • 2016
Big Show
WWE The Best of Raw and Smackdown Live 2018
Movie • 2019
Big Show
AEW All Out 2021
Movie • 2021
Paul Wight
The Undertaker: 15-0
Movie • 2008
WCW Fall Brawl 1995
Movie • 1995
The Giant (Appearance)
The Rock - Just Bring It!
Movie • 2002
The Big Show
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Movie • 2022
The Big Show
The Rock vs. John Cena: Once in a Lifetime
Movie • 2012
The Big Show
WWE: World's Strongest Man: The Mark Henry Story
Movie • 2019
Big Show / Self
Lita: It Just Feels Right
Movie • 2001
Big Show
Meeting the Undertaker
Movie • 2020
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Orion Slaver
One on One
TV • 2001
Miles
WCW Monday Nitro
TV • 1995
Undertaker: The Last Ride
TV • 2020
Big Show
Steve Austin's Broken Skull Sessions
TV • 2019
Self / Big Show
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
TV • 2019
Paul Wight
Nickelodeon's Unfiltered
TV • 2020
The Big Show
MADtv
TV • 1995
Self
AEW Dark: Elevation
TV • 2021
Paul Wight
The Best of WWE
TV • 2020
Big show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
WWF Jakked/Metal
TV • 1999
WWE's Most Wanted Treasures
TV • 2021
Big Show
WWE Superstars
TV • 2009
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
TV • 2004
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
TV • 2019
Palindrome (voice)
The JBL and Cole Show
TV • 2012
The Big Show
Psych
TV • 2006
Big Ed Dixon
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
The Big Show
Raw
TV • 1993
Big Show
Burn Notice
TV • 2007
Griffin Black
WWE 24
TV • 2015
The Big Show
Hey! (EW)
TV • 2022
Paul Wight
WWE Main Event
TV • 2012
Big Show
Swerved
TV • 2015
Big Show
Total Divas
TV • 2013
Big Show
Lip Sync Battle
TV • 2015
Self
WWE Main Event
TV • 2012
The Big Show
WWE ECW
TV • 2006
The Big Show
WCW Thunder
TV • 1998
The Giant
WWE Rivalries
TV • 2014
Self
AEW Dark: Elevation
TV • 2021
Raw
TV • 1993
Paul Wight
Raw
TV • 1993
The Big Show
WWE Tough Enough
TV • 2001
The Big Show
HAPPY!
TV • 2017
Big Pink
WWE NXT
TV • 2010
Big Show
Van Helsing
TV • 2016
Carnage
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
TV • 2020
Big Show
The Big Show Show
TV • 2020
Big Show
Ruthless Aggression
TV • 2020
Big Show
The Best of WWE
TV • 2020
The Big Show
WWE: Story Time
TV • 2016
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
TV • 2019
Royal Pains
TV • 2009
Donald Green / The Garbage Collector (as The Big Show)
Ghosts
TV • 2021
Gorm
WWE's Greatest Moments
TV • 2025
Big Show
Saturday Night's Main Event
TV • 1985
Wrestlemania Rewind
TV • 2014
Big Show
Raw
TV • 1993
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
Clash of the Champions
TV • 1988
The Giant
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
TV • 2023