Dave Bautista
Acting • Born 1969-01-18
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.
Filmography
214 credits
Wrong Side of Town
Movie • 2010
Big Ronnie 'B.R.'
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
Knock at the Cabin
Movie • 2023
Leonard
WWE Survivor Series 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE RAW 15th Anniversary
Movie • 2007
House of the Rising Sun
Movie • 2011
Ray
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
Movie • 2010
Batista
WWE Royal Rumble 2003
Movie • 2003
Batista
WWE Royal Rumble 2004
Movie • 2004
Batista
WWE SummerSlam 2004
Movie • 2004
Batista
WWE Survivor Series 2004
Movie • 2004
Batista
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
Movie • 2012
Argomael
WWE Royal Rumble 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE WrestleMania 23
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE WrestleMania XX
Movie • 2004
Batista
WWE WrestleMania 21
Movie • 2005
Batista
Riddick
Movie • 2013
Diaz
The Man with the Iron Fists
Movie • 2012
Brass Body
WWE Royal Rumble 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
Movie • 2010
Batista
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE SummerSlam 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Elimination Chamber 2010
Movie • 2010
Batista
Guardians of the Galaxy
Movie • 2014
Drax
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Backlash 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
The Wrecking Crew
Movie • 2026
James Hale
WWE The Great American Bash 2006
Movie • 2006
Batista
WWE Survivor Series 2006
Movie • 2006
Batista
WWE WrestleMania XXIV
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Over the Limit 2010
Movie • 2010
Batista
WWE New Year's Revolution 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Vengeance 2004
Movie • 2004
Batista
WWE Unforgiven 2004
Movie • 2004
Batista
WWE No Way Out 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Backlash 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Vengeance 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE The Great American Bash 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE SummerSlam 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE No Mercy 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Judgment Day 2002
Movie • 2002
Deacon Batista
WWE Taboo Tuesday 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2005
Movie • 2005
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2002
Movie • 2002
Batista
WWE Global Warning
Movie • 2002
Deacon Batista
WWE SummerSlam 2006
Movie • 2006
Batista
WWE No Mercy 2006
Movie • 2006
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2006
Movie • 2006
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2003
Movie • 2003
Batista
WWE No Way Out 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE Judgment Day 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE One Night Stand 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE SummerSlam 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE Unforgiven 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE No Mercy 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE Survivor Series 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE No Way Out 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Backlash 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Movie • 2023
Self - 'Drax'
WWE One Night Stand 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Night of Champions 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE The Great American Bash 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Unforgiven 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE No Mercy 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Survivor Series 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2008
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE Backlash 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Judgment Day 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Extreme Rules 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Hell in a Cell 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Survivor Series 2009
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
Movie • 2010
Batista
WWE: Rey Mysterio - The Life of a Masked Man
Movie • 2012
Batista
WWE Elimination Chamber 2014
Movie • 2014
Batista
WWE Armageddon 2007
Movie • 2007
Batista
WWE No Way Out 2003
Movie • 2003
Batista (Appearance)
WWE WrestleMania XXX
Movie • 2014
Batista
Undertaker: The Streak 21-1
Movie • 2014
Batista
Thor: Love and Thunder
Movie • 2022
Drax
WWE Payback 2014
Movie • 2014
Batista
WWE Extreme Rules 2014
Movie • 2014
Batista
Batista: The Animal Unleashed
Movie • 2014
Himself / Batista
Unleashed
Movie
The Firefly Funhouse Match
Movie • 2020
Batista (archive footage)
Spectre
Movie • 2015
Hinx
L.A. Slasher
Movie • 2015
The Drug Dealer #1
Kickboxer: Vengeance
Movie • 2016
Tong Po
The Last Showgirl
Movie • 2024
Eddie
OVW Christmas Chaos
Movie • 2001
Leviathan
Afterburn
Movie • 2025
Jake
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Movie • 2017
Drax
My Spy The Eternal City
Movie • 2024
J.J.
WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time
Movie • 2010
Batista
Heist
Movie • 2015
Cox
The Greatest Superstars of the 21st Century
Movie • 2011
Batista
Marauders
Movie • 2016
Stockwell
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
Movie • 2026
(voice)
Parachute
Movie • 2024
Bryce
Grendel
Movie
Beowulf
Blade Runner 2049
Movie • 2017
Sapper Morton
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie • 2018
Drax
The Warriors Gate
Movie • 2016
Arun
Final Score
Movie • 2018
Michael Knox
Randy Orton: RKO Outta Nowhere
Movie • 2016
Batista
WWE: The Undertaker's Deadliest Matches
Movie • 2010
Batista
Bushwick
Movie • 2017
Stupe
Hotel Artemis
Movie • 2018
Everest
WWE: The Big Show - A Giant's World
Movie • 2011
Batista
Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn
Movie • 2014
Self
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Movie • 2018
Davidson
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Movie • 2018
Trent DeRosa
WWE: Best of the 2000's
Movie • 2017
Batista
2048: Nowhere to Run
Movie • 2017
Sapper Morton
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Movie • 2019
Trent DeRosa
Stuber
Movie • 2019
Vic Manning
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Movie • 2010
Officer, San Diego Police Department S.W.A.T Team
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Movie • 2023
Drax
Dune
Movie • 2021
Beast Rabban Harkonnen
WWE WrestleMania 35
Movie • 2019
Batista
My Spy
Movie • 2020
J.J.
Army of the Dead
Movie • 2021
Scott Ward
The Killer's Game
Movie • 2024
Joe Flood
Trap House
Movie • 2025
Ray Seale
Daniel Bryan: Journey to WrestleMania 30
Movie • 2014
Batista
Randy Orton: The Evolution of a Predator
Movie • 2011
Batista (archive footage)
Dogtown
Movie
Avengers: Endgame
Movie • 2019
Drax
WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary
Movie • 2007
Batista
Batista - I Walk Alone
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber
Movie • 2010
Batista
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Movie • 2022
Batista
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
Movie • 2012
Batista (archive footage)
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3
Movie • 2014
Batista
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes! Yes! Yes!
Movie • 2015
Batista
WWE: Hell in a Cell - The Greatest Hell in a Cell Matches of All Time
Movie • 2008
Batista
The History of the World Heavyweight Championship
Movie • 2009
Batista
WWE: Triple H: The King of Kings - There is Only One
Movie • 2008
Batista
WWE: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero
Movie • 2008
Batista
The Destruction of The Shield
Movie • 2015
Batista
WWE: Undertaker 20-0 - The Streak
Movie • 2012
Batista
Dune: Part Two
Movie • 2024
Beast Rabban
Universe's Most Wanted
Movie
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Movie • 2022
Drax
In the Lost Lands
Movie • 2025
Boyce
Relative Strangers
Movie • 2006
Wrestler (uncredited)
The John Cena Experience
Movie • 2011
Batista (archive footage)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie • 2022
Duke Cody
Creating an Army of the Dead
Movie • 2021
Self
WWE Royal Rumble 2014
Movie • 2014
Batista
Alpha Gang
Movie
Jack in Time for Christmas
Movie • 2024
Self
Untitled FBI Wedding Sting Film
Movie
The Undertaker: 15-0
Movie • 2008
Dreadnought
Movie
The Rock vs. John Cena: Once in a Lifetime
Movie • 2012
Batista
Road House 2
Movie
Groove Tails
Movie
(voice)
The Romantic
Movie
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVI
Movie • 2009
Batista
The Naked Gun
Movie • 2025
Dave Bautista
Highlander
Movie
Kurgan
Batista - I Walk Alone
Movie • 2009
Batista
Meeting the Undertaker
Movie • 2020
Smallville
TV • 2001
Aldar
Raw
TV • 1993
Dave Bautista
See
TV • 2019
Edo Voss
WWE Superstars
TV • 2009
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
TV • 2004
Self
WXW Rage TV
TV • 1996
Chuck
TV • 2007
T.I.
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
Deacon Batista
Marvel Studios Legends
TV • 2021
Drax the Destroyer (archive footage) (uncredited)
WWE 24
TV • 2015
Batista
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Raw
TV • 1993
Batista
WWE This Is Awesome
TV • 2022
Batista
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV • 2020
Fezzik
WWE ECW
TV • 2006
Batista (archive footage)
Head Case
TV • 2007
Self
WWE Velocity
TV • 2002
Deacon Batista
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
Batista
WWE Rivalries
TV • 2014
Self
WWE Untold
TV • 2018
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Raw
TV • 1993
Dave Batista
What We Do in the Shadows
TV • 2019
Garrett the Vampire
The View
TV • 1997
Self
All That
TV • 2019
Self
Ruthless Aggression
TV • 2020
Batista
Room 104
TV • 2017
Raw Dog Avalanche
The Best of WWE
TV • 2020
Batista
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
TV • 2014
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
WWE Raw Classics
TV • 2025
Batista
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self - Presenter
Saturday Night's Main Event
TV • 1985
Batista
Undertaker: The Last Ride
TV • 2020
Self
Wrestlemania Rewind
TV • 2014
Batista
Raw
TV • 1993
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
WWE ECW
TV • 2006
Batista
WWE Rivals
TV • 2022
Batista
Dark Side of the Ring
TV • 2019
Batista (archive footage)
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV • 1992
Self - Presenter
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Iron Chef America
TV • 2005
Self - Judge (as Batista)