The Undertaker

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.

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

Height

208 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

High school

Waltrip High School

University

California State University, Long Beach

Awards & achievements

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/undertaker/
• Xhttps://x.com/undertaker
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Texas
• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.