20 Awesome Wrestlers Turned Actors

Man mountains who became gifted thesps

By Josh WinningMar 24th 2011
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

The Wrestler: California native who’s an impressive 6ft 4 and has won the WWF/E championships an epic 16 times.

Signature Move: The People’s Elbow

Signature Movie: Johnson’s beefed up his fair share of big screen brawlers, most recently as a near-silent assassin in Faster.

But the one what got him on the league table was The Mummy Returns, in which Johnson played the Scorpion King – and suffered through a truly terrible CG makeover for his climactic hybrid transformation. A rock-soundtracked prequel-sequel followed a few years later.
 

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    • ChrisWootton

      Mar 24th 2011, 13:19

      So basically it's the Rock who is the only one who is watchable

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    • Hadouken76

      Mar 24th 2011, 15:46

      Sorry to nit pick., but words say Predator, but the picture is Running Man! And apparently Giant Haystacks was in' Quest for Fire'

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    • jeffamania

      Mar 25th 2011, 7:36

      WFT?!?!?! No mention of the daddy of them all!!!! Excuse me.....ever heard of Mr T?!??! Mr T from Rocy III and BA in the A team TV show?!?!? What gives?!?!?

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    • mrtenfifteen

      Mar 25th 2011, 11:42

      I can't believe you have left out the mighty Tor Johnson from the classic Plan 9 from Outer Space. Favorite quote: 'I'm a big boy now Johnny'

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    • writerdave87

      Mar 27th 2011, 2:16

      Now I understand why you think Justin Bieber's a good actor lol. Quite liked twelve rounds, though that was down to the rest of the cast rather than John Cena himself he was solid enough.

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    • Ichi1

      Mar 27th 2011, 20:17

      Lumping Couture and Ortiz in with the rest of this list makes you look kind of silly.

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    • MadMogwai

      Mar 30th 2011, 11:55

      Mr T should be in there!!! Ric Flair's finisher is is the figure 4 leg lock and Kevin Nash's finisher is the Jacknife Power Bomb. Also @dalidab1982, TNA was never known as WCW. WCW was a completely different company which was purchased by WWE who now sell WCW products. (They have also reactivated WCW.com for a limited time only)

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