Dave Bautista

Dave Bautista has earned more of my respect than almost any crossover star. Wrestlers-turned-actors usually trade on their physiques; Bautista went the other way, deliberately seeking stranger character roles and studying the craft like a late-blooming apprentice. His Guardians of the Galaxy turn worked because of timing and deadpan precision, not muscle. Starting wrestling at thirty, conquering WWE, then starting over in his mid-forties as a working actor tells me everything about his appetite for humility. Now he writes and produces too. I think he will be remembered as a genuine character actor who happened to be enormous — the best compliment I can give.

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Name (English)

Dave Bautista

Name (Japanese)

デビッド・バウティスタ

Reading

でびっど・ばうてぃすた

Born

January 18, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

screenwriter / professional wrestler / actor / film producer / mixed martial arts fighter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

High school

Wakefield High School

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davebautista/
• Xhttps://x.com/DaveBautista
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Bautista
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A6%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44158

Tags

• screenwriter
• professional wrestler
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.