Acting
Paul Wight
1972-02-08 · Aiken, South Carolina, USA
Paul Donald Wight II is a European American professional basketball player, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant and with WWE from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name Big Show. He is 7’4” and weighs 550 lbs. He wears size 24 10E shoes Wight began his career in 1994. In 1995 he signed with WCW, where, due to his very large frame, he was known by the ring name The Giant (and was initially introduced as "the son of André the Giant"). In early 1999, he left WCW to join WWE. Between WWE and WCW, he is a seven-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWE Championship twice, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles. He is also an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. Having also won the Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore championships, he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. He also won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WCW and WWF/WWE since 1995, including the 2000 edition of WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania. Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as Jingle All the Way, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's comedy-dramas Royal Pains, Psych and the action-drama Burn Notice. He had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show.
Known for
Jingle All the Way
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
The Waterboy
Fighting with My Family
Psych
Star Trek: Enterprise
Van Helsing
MacGruber
Burn Notice
Saturday Night Live
HAPPY!
Ghosts
Raw
Undertaker: The Last Ride
The Big Show Show
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
Movie credits · 276
AEW All In 2026: London - Buy In
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
AEW All In 2023: London - Zero Hour
AEW Double or Nothing 2023: The Buy In
Marcus
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
AEW All Out 2021
AEW Double or Nothing 2021
WWE Survivor Series 2020
Meeting the Undertaker
WWE Clash of Champions 2020
WWE WrestleMania 36: Part 2
WWE: World's Strongest Man: The Mark Henry Story
Fighting with My Family
WWE The Best of Raw and Smackdown Live 2018
WWE Survivor Series 2018
NXT TakeOver: WarGames II
The Hardys: Woken
WWE Hall of Fame 2018
WWE Best of Raw & SmackDown Live 2017
WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series
WWE SummerSlam 2017
WWE WrestleMania 33
WWE Fastlane 2017
The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania
WWE Royal Rumble 2017
The History of The WWE Hardcore Championship
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
WWE: The U.S. Championship: A Legacy of Greatness
Countdown
WWE WrestleMania 32
WWE Fastlane 2016
WWE The Best of Raw & SmackDown 2015
WWE Royal Rumble 2016
Sting: Into the Light
WWE Live From MSG 2015
WWE SummerSlam 2015
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.3
WWE Battleground 2015
WWE Money in the Bank 2015
TV credits · 48
Hulk Hogan: Real American
TFI Unplugged
WWE's Greatest Moments
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
Hey! (EW)
Ghosts
WWE's Most Wanted Treasures
AEW Dark: Elevation
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
Nickelodeon's Unfiltered
Undertaker: The Last Ride
The Big Show Show
The Best of WWE
Ruthless Aggression
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
Steve Austin's Broken Skull Sessions
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
HAPPY!
WWE: Story Time
Van Helsing
WWE Swerved
Lip Sync Battle
WWE 24
WWE Rivalries
Wrestlemania Rewind
Total Divas
The JBL and Cole Show
WWE Main Event
WWE NXT
Royal Pains
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
WWE Superstars
Burn Notice
Psych
WWE ECW
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
Star Trek: Enterprise
One on One
WWE Tough Enough
WWF Jakked
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