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Dwayne - The Rock - Johnson
according to Forbes, he is the

World's Highest-Paid Actors in 2016,

just making over

$64.5 million.

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born

May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name
The Rock, is an American actor, producer,
and professional wrestler who holds both
American and Canadian citizenship.

Currently signed to WWE on a part-time
contract, Johnson was a college football
player for the University of Miami, where
he won a national championship on the
1991 Miami Hurricanes football team. He
later played for the Calgary Stampeders in
the Canadian Football League, and was cut
two months into the 1995 season. This led
him to become a professional wrestler like
his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, Rocky Johnson (from whom he also
inherited his Canadian citizenship).

Johnson gained mainstream fame in the
World Wrestling Federation (WWF/WWE)
from 1996 to 2004 as a major figure in the
company's Attitude Era, and was the first
third-generation wrestler in the company's
history. He returned to wrestling part-time
for WWE from 2011 to 2013 and continues
to make sporadic non-wrestling appearances for the company. Johnson has 17
championship reigns in WWE, including 10
as a world champion, winning the
WWF/WWE Championship eight times
(seventh reign was as WWE Undisputed
Champion) and the WCW/World Championship twice.

He won the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Tag Team
Championship five times. Johnson is the
sixth Triple Crown Champion in WWE his-

tory, and won the 2000 Royal Rumble. He
is widely regarded as one of the greatest
professional wrestlers of all time.

Johnson's autobiography The Rock Says...,
co-written with Joe Layden, was published
in 2000. It debuted at No. 1 on The New
York Times Best Seller list, spent 20 weeks
on The New York Times bestseller list and
sold 720,000 copies in hardcover alone.
Johnson's first leading film role was in The
Scorpion King in 2002. For this role, he was
paid US $5.5 million, a world record for an
actor in his first starring role. He has since
appeared in various films, and become
known for his ability to reinvigorate film
franchises. Perhaps his greatest success in
his acting career can be sourced to his role
as Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious
franchise.

He hosted and produced The Hero, a reality competition series; and has since continued to produce TV series and films through
his production company Seven Bucks Productions, each of which he also stars in.
Forbes listed Johnson No. 25 in the Top 100
Most Powerful Celebrities in 2013. He is the
world's highest-paid actor of 2016. Time
named him one of the 100 most influential
people in the world in 2016. In 2015, Muscle & Fitness named Dwayne "The Rock"
Johnson as their "Man of the Century."

Dwayne Johnson last 9 movies...Hercules
(2014), Furious 7 (2015), San Andreas (2015)
Central Intelligence (2016), Moana (2016),
Fast 8 (2017) Baywatch (2017), Jumanji
(2017), Rampage (2018).
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