Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle's real credential has nothing to do with a screen: a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics, won while competing with a broken neck. That fact followed him into professional wrestling, where he spent his WWE years from the late 1990s to 2006 and again from 2017 to 2019, with a decade at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in between. He now works as an analyst for Real American Freestyle.

The screen credits divide neatly. Most of this page is the wrestling itself, filed as film and television: WrestleMania 2000, X-Seven, X8, XX, 22 and 35, Royal Rumble 2019, Vengeance 2002, plus retrospectives and documentary series such as Undertaker: The Last Ride and Ruthless Aggression, where he appears as himself and gives a notably candid interview.

The acting is a shorter and stranger list. Warrior in 2011 is the one that makes sense, casting him as Koba in a mixed martial arts drama where a genuine athlete is exactly what the part needs. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night put him in a supernatural thriller, Pain & Gain used him uncredited as an inmate, and Sharknado 2 handed him a fire chief. Angle plays intensity well and has never pretended to be doing more than that.