10 Wrestlers Who Appeared In Genre Fare
4. Tyler Mane - X-Men
The first X-Men movie still stands as the first solid comic book film of the "modern" era. Prior to it, you had the Reeves Superman films, and the Tim Burton Batman films, but little else. X-Men changed things, and the first two films in the series, helmed by Bryan Singer, opened the door for the genre to explode in the 2000s.
Though the role would later be played by Liev Schreiber, Sabertooth - originally intended by creator Chris Claremont to be Wolverine's father, but never confirmed in the canon and portrayed as his half-brother in X-Men Origins: Wolverine - was first played on film by Tyler Mane.
Though not hugely visible in the wrestling world, Mane trained for a time in Calgary under the legendary Stu Hart, and spent time in WCW, originally working with the tag team Doom, and Woman, before later being packaged as Big Sky and paired with Vinnie Vegas (Kevin Nash), up until Nash signed with the WWF.
After that, he began working as a stuntman and actor. It was while working as a stuntman that Singer tapped him to play Sabertooth. In the context of the first film, he did a decent job, and would go on to play roles such as Michael Myers in the Rob Zombie Halloween films.