The Rock

Dwayne Johnson , also known by his ring name The Rock, is an actor and former professional wrestler who played the Pendari Champion in the sixth season episode .
He acquired fame for his accolades as a professional wrestler with (WWE), but he has since retired from wrestling to focus on a full-time acting career. He is the first WWE superstar to make a guest appearance on Star Trek; he was followed by Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr. and The Big Show, both of whom guest-starred on .
==Pro wrestling career==
Born in Hayward, California, USA (although he was billed as being from Miami, Florida due to his having attended college at and played football for the University of Miami), Johnson is a third-generation professional wrestler who made his debut with WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF) in 1996 as "Rocky Maivia", a combination of his father Rocky Johnson's first name and his grandfather "High Chief" Peter Maivia's last name (both former WWF wrestlers).
With a later "attitude adjustment" to his character, he changed his ring name to "The Rock". He subsequently became famous not only for his wrestling but also for such trademark gestures as "The People's Eyebrow" (in which he raises his right eyebrow to the crowd or to his opponent - he can be seen doing this during his Voyager appearance) and his signature line "Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?" (with the word "smell" generally drawn out). He retired in 2004.
In 2011, The Rock made a surprise return to WWE, acting as the host of WrestleMania XXVII. In 2012, Johnson returned to the ring to compete in his first match in 8 years at WrestleMania XXVIII, held in his adopted hometown of Miami, which he won against John Cena. He then went on to compete at the 2013 Royal Rumble where he won the WWE Championship from defending champion . He then lost the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania XXIX, in New York, to John Cena. He later made an appearance at the opening ceremony of Wrestlemania XXX in 2014.
==Acting career==
Johnson's appearance in Voyager predated the true launch of his acting career. He made his breakthrough film appearance in (2001, with Oded Fehr) portraying Mathayus the Scorpion King. He reprised the role in the eponymous (2002, with Branscombe Richmond and Joseph Ruskin).
He continued his acting career with starring in films as The Rundown (2003, with Jeffrey Chase, William Lucking, and Todd Stashwick), (2004, with Neal McDonough and Barbara J. Tarbuck), (2005, co-starring Karl Urban and featuring creature work by Doug Jones), Southland Tales (2006, with John Larroquette, Holmes R. Osborne, and Wallace Shawn), Gridiron Gang (2006, with Leon Rippy and Brett Cullen), and The Game Plan (2007, with Gordon Clapp). He also made an uncredited cameo appearance as an inept (and ill-fated) S.W.A.T. officer in (2007, with Carlos Alazraqui, Toby Huss and Patton Oswalt).
With the release of (2008), in which he played Agent 23, Johnson dropped the use of the nickname "The Rock" from his acting credits, presumably to further disassociate his acting career from his former wrestling persona and to avoid any copyright claims the WWE may have on the moniker. He then starred in (2009, with Robert Clendenin, Ike Eisenmann, John Kassir, and Tom Woodruff, Jr.).
In 2010, he co-starred with Ashley Judd in . The same year he made an appearance in , which was written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry. Perry also starred in the film, while K Callan had a supporting role. Johnson also appeared in and the same year. Still the same year, he had an uncredited cameo as an air marshal in (starring Jamie Lee Curtis, with Victor Garber).
In 2011, Johnson, now a household name in Hollywood, joined the action film franchise, starring as Hobbs in , directed by Justin Lin and featuring Geoff Meed in the cast. This was followed by (2015, with voice work by Hélène Cardona), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and (2019, co-starring Idris Elba). Johnson also had an uncredited cameo as Hobbs in (2023).
Besides his Fast & Furious role, Johnson also starred in (2012, with Branscombe Richmond), (2013, with Marcelo Tubert), (2013, with Wayne Péré), (2013, with Larry A. Hankin and Tony Plana), (2014), (2015), (2016), (2017), (2018, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jason Liles), and (2018, with Adrian Holmes and Tzi Ma). He made a cameo as himself in (2015).
Johnson also starred in (2017, with Missi Pyle and Stephen Dunlevy) and (2019, with Bebe Neuwirth). He starred in (2021, with Stephen Dunlevy), Netflix' (2021), and (2022, co-starring Aldis Hodge, with Joseph Gatt).
==Television and voice acting==
Albeit mainly a feature film star, Johnson starred in from 2015 to 2019. The series featured Steven Weber and Mason Gooding in recurring roles and Matt McCoy in a guest role.
From 2021 to 2023, Johnson starred as himself in NBC's based on his own life. Dawnn Lewis, Clyde Kusatsu, and Stephanie Czajkowski also appeared on this show.
Johnson also lent his voice to a number of animated projects. His best known voice work is perhaps his role as Maui in (2016). He also voiced the lead roles in (2009) and DC League of Super-Pets (2022, with Jameela Jamil and Daveed Diggs).
Johnson voiced the Autobot Cliffjumper in Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's (2010). The character was killed in the very first episode, Johnson's appearance being a marketing ploy to fans. Frank Welker, who voiced Megatron, also provided the snarls of a zombified Cliffjumper in the second episode. Jeffrey Combs, Clancy Brown, and Tony Todd were among the voice actors for that series.
Johnson also voiced himself in a 2010 episode of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy and had a voice cameo role as a bankrobber in (2021). He voiced The Foundation in the video games Fortnite: Chapter 2 (2019, with Troy Baker and Nolan North) and Fortnite: Chapter 3 (2021, with Troy Baker).
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