Dwayne Johnson, known as “ the Rock”, was on born May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California, United States {US} , He’s an American professional wrestler and actor whose personality and litheness made him a success in both fields.
Johnson was a collegiate football national champion with the University of Miami in 1991. He also wanted to play professional football but was passed over in the 1995 NFL Draft. He signed with the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) Calgary Stampeders, but was released after his first season. Johnson’s father Rocky and maternal grandpa Peter Maivia both worked as professional wrestlers, and he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in the year 1996.
After adopting the gimmick of a charismatic trash-talker, he came to stardom and helped usher in the Attitude Era, a period of industry development in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Johnson departed WWE in 2004 and returned in 2011 as a part-time performer until 2013, when he retired. He is a 10-time world champion and WWE’s sixth Triple Crown champion. He is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion, a five-time Tag Team Champion, the 2000 Royal Rumble winner, and the promotion’s first African-American champion. Johnson appeared in the most-watched episodes of WWE’s flagship television series and headlined the most-bought professional wrestling pay-per-view “WrestleMania XXVIII” “Raw and SmackDown”.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation in 2013, Pain & Gain also in 2013, and four installments of The Fast and the Furious series—Fast Five in 2011, Fast & Furious 6 2013, Furious 7 in 2015, and The Fate of the Furious 2016were among Dwayne Johnson’s later films in 2017. He also appeared in The Game Plan in 2007, Tooth Fairy (2010), and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, all of which are family films in 2012. Johnson was then cast as Hercules, the titular Greek mythological character in 2014. In the action picture San Andreas in 2015, he played a firefighter contending with a tragic earthquake, and in 2016, he acted alongside “comic Kevin Hart” in the buddy comedy Central Intelligence. The brash charm that Johnson exhibited in his in-ring monologues translated smoothly to the silver screen, and his appearance in The Mummy Returns in2001 signaled a new stage in his career. Although Johnson was neither the first nor the last professional wrestler to be courted by Hollywood, he was easily the most successful. He followed “The Mummy Returns” with The Scorpion King in 2002 and The Rundown (2003). In 2004 he left the ring to turn his attention to acting full-time.
Johnson’s first big part was in the sword and sorcery picture The Scorpion King, playing the titular character (2002). Since then, he has appeared in the comedies The Game Plan (2007), Tooth Fairy (2010), and Central Intelligence (2016); the action films Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Hercules (2014), and Skyscraper (2018); the science-fiction films San Andreas (2015) and Rampage (2018); and the animated film Moana (2016). Beginning with Fast Five (2011), his portrayal as Luke Hobbs in the Fast & Furious films has helped the franchise become one of the highest-grossing film franchises.
Johnson also gave the voice of a demigod in Disney’s animated feature Moana in 2016. In 2017, he starred in Baywatch, a comedy based on the popular TV show about lifeguards, and “Jumanji”: Welcome to the Jungle, a film based on a Chris Van Allsburg children’s novel. In the action film “Skyscraper” the next year, Johnson played a father who goes to extraordinary lengths to save his family from a burning skyscraper. He then appeared in Fast &Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw in both 2019, a spin-off from the long-running franchise, and Jumanji: The Next Level (both 2017), a sequel to the 2017 blockbuster. He co-starred in Jungle Cruise, an action comedy based on a theme park ride, with Emily Blunt in 2021.
Johnson appeared in a number of television shows. He starred in Ballers in 2015 to 2019, an HBO comedy series about a former football player who becomes a financial counsellor to other sports stars, and he presented the reality television series The Hero in 2013. Johnson went on to produce and host the reality TV show The Titan Games (2019–), which featured various athletic competitions. Later, he starred in the comedy series Young Rock (2021–), which was based on his life.
Johnson made his comeback appearance in the ring in seven years in 2011, igniting a feud with WWE superstar John Cena that culminated in a main-event battle at WrestleMania XXVIII in April 2012. WrestleMania XXVIII was WWE’s highest-grossing pay-per-view broadcast, with more than 1.3 million pay-per-view orders and $67 million in global sales. Johnson won his ninth professional wrestling title in January 2013, but he gave it up less than three months later after losing to Cena in another highly publicized match.
He wrestled for WWE for eight years before pursing an acting career. He is widely recognized as one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. His films have grossed over $3.5 billion in North America and over $10.5 billion globally, making him one of the highest-paid and highest-grossing performers in the world.
