Wrestlers In Movies

[Garlic Junior 136]

Just been thinking about how many wrestlers made the transition to film acting (whether permanently or for a bit part).

 

Hulk Hogan, The Rock and John Cena are obvious.

 

Back in the day Jesse Ventura and Roddy Piper made the jump.

 

Cameo wise there is The Big Show's appearance in Waterboy and Randy Savage in Spiderman.

 

More recently you have CM Punk in The Girl On The Third Floor, as well as Mick Foley and Jake The Snake Roberts in Peanut Butter Falcon.

 

Any more examples?

[Vic Boss 612]

Terry Funk was in Road House

 

Kevin Nash was Super Shredder in TMNT though I guess that's more of a stunt role

 

El Santo and Blue Demon made kajillion B-movies in Mexico and some of those ended up translated to English and/or being laughed at on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or whatevs it was called, never watched it)

[Psycho666Soldier 283]

Forgot about Batista

[Psycho666Soldier 283]

Assuming we're not including people who have only been in WWE Studios movies, JoMo.

 

Jerry Lawler starred in that one cheesy thriller/horror movie Girls Gone Dead.

 

Kevin Nash was also in The Punisher and Magic Mike.  I'm refusing to include The Longest Yard just because part of its gimmick was having a bunch of wrestlers.  Which is the same reason I'm not counting Ready to Rumble or The Wrestler.

 

Triple H was in Blade Trinity.

 

Nathan Jones was in a few movies.  Mad Max: Fury Road being the most recent I can  think of.

 

Jericho in MacGruber(also starring smaller parts from Mark Henry, Khali, MVP, Kane, and Big Show).

 

Andre in The Princess Bride.

 

There's also that goofy ass Kaiju movie where Kota Ibushi and Minoru Suzuki turn into giant versions of their selves and battle.

[KR 8]

Nash was also in John Wick and Grandma’s Boy

 

Sheamus was in TMNT2.

 

Batista in the MCU, that Uber movie, the one where he’s a secret agent, and the one with WuTang

[Vic Boss 612]

13 hours ago, Psycho666Soldier said:

Nathan Jones was in a few movies.

I think I remember seeing him in one of those Tony Jaa martial arts movies

[Psycho666Soldier 283]

He was actually in Fearless now that I think about it.

[Galeigh 308]

Wasn't Nash also in Blade 2 and x-men?

 

Edit: nope it was trips in trinity I was thinking of and the guy who played sabertooth only looked like nash. Nash was in magic mike and magic mike xxl though. 

[Garlic Junior 136]

Oh yeah Nash in Magic Mike and Batista are obvious ones I shoulda remembered.

 

Surprised SCSA hasn't been mentioned yet. Triple H is a new one to me.

[Nick 38]

The Great Khali in The Longest Yard

 

Goldberg in The Longest Yard and Santa's Slay.