Paul Wight
Biography
Paul Wight is an American professional wrestler and actor who also works as a color commentator for All Elite Wrestling's Collision, performing under his real name. Born in Aiken, South Carolina, he played college basketball before beginning his wrestling career in 1994. He signed with World Championship Wrestling in 1995 and performed as The Giant, then joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1999, where he became known as Big Show. Across WCW and WWE he held 23 championships, including seven world titles, and is the only wrestler to have won the WCW, WWF/WWE, World Heavyweight and ECW world championships. He has headlined many pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania. Outside wrestling he has acted in films including Jingle All the Way and The Waterboy and on television in Star Trek: Enterprise, and he had a lead role in the comedy Knucklehead (2010) and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show.
54years old
Turns 55 on February 8in 90 days
- Born Aiken
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as Big Show, The Big Show, Paul Donald Wight Jr. and The Giant
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 25 years1999 to 2024
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First role
Wight wrestled his first career match on December 3, 1994, at a World Wrestling Association show in Clementon, New Jersey. Frank Finnegan, the WWA Heavyweight Champion, won that bout by count-out.
Big break
Wight was working as a phone answerer for a karaoke company when he met Danny Bonaduce at a live microphone amateur contest on Bonaduce's morning radio show. Bonaduce then introduced Wight to his friend Hulk Hogan, a WCW wrestler.
Big break
Wight made an audition tape at the Monster Factory and gave it to Mike Chioda, who forwarded it to Pat Patterson; Patterson skipped watching it because he assumed Wight was the wrestler Kurrgan, a mistake he only realized when The Giant debuted in WCW.
A first
By winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, Wight became the first professional wrestler to have held the WWE Championship, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
First role
Wight's first acting role came in 1994, when he appeared on the television show Thunder in Paradise. The appearance was uncredited.
Paul Wight movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kevin Dunn directed two of these films. Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Mark Henry's page
All films by Kevin Dunn
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.