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Dave Bautista, 55, shares astonishing throwback to when he was 16 and had NO tattoos... during rough childhood blighted by poverty and crime


In his 30s, he embarked on a successful career in pro wrestling and MMA, before becoming a movie star at 45 in Guardians Of The Galaxy and beginning his run in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

He finally escaped poverty in his 30s, when he launched his wildly successful run in pro wrestling; pictured at WrestleMania Goes Hollywood in Los Angeles in 2005 The movie triggered Dave's lucrative run in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in Avengers: Endgame, the second highest-grossing motion picture of all time. Dave has a wide array of projects currently in the pipeline, including a turn as Beowulf in the upcoming film Grendel, based on a novel that flips the Old English epic to tell the story through the eyes of its villainous monster.

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