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My Take
The Undertaker is, to my mind, the greatest long-form character performance in entertainment history. Mark Calaway protected the Deadman gimmick for three decades, a 208-centimeter Texan who understood that mystique requires a discipline most performers simply lack. He let silence and presence do the talking, turning a funeral-parlor gimmick that should have lasted six months into the spine of an entire promotion. The Wrestling Observer and WWE Hall of Fame inductions only formalize what fans always knew. I judge wrestlers by how an arena feels when their music hits, and nobody ever commanded a single gong the way he did.
Overview
Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), better known by his ring name the Undertaker, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is a brand ambassador as well as a writer and executive producer for its sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). Calaway spent the vast majority of his in-ring career wrestling for WWE and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- The Undertaker
- Name (Japanese)
- ジ・アンダーテイカー
- Reading
- じ・あんだーていかー
- Born
- March 24, 1965 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Snake
- Origin
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 208 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- professional wrestler
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Waltrip High School
- University
- California State University, Long Beach
Awards & achievements
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.