10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Were In Oscar Nominated Movies

9. Latin Lover (Roma)

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Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing.

Who? Fair question. Lucha libre veteran Latin Lover is perhaps the most obscure wrestler on this list (at least, beyond his home country), but he's almost certainly starred in the finest film - and in a fairly prominent role, too.

Those with long memories or encyclopaedic knowledge might recall Latin Lover's brief cameo in the 1997 Royal Rumble when he was a fresh faced youngster, dumped in under two minutes. Now a grizzled veteran, he enjoyed a much longer stint in Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece Roma as Mexican cultural icon Professor Zovek. Interestingly, the real Zovek starred in a film himself alongside a considerably bigger legend of Mexican wrestling, Blue Demon.

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