Tyler Mane
Actor/Stuntman/Wrestler
Previously Aired On: October 30, 2007 - Listen to the Show!
Now playing everywhere at a theater near you is Rob Zombie’s filmversion of John Carpenter’s classic “Halloween”. The role of the masked psychopathic knife-wielding stalker known as Michael Myers is played by Tyler Mane.
Mane grew up in Saskatoon, Canada. Reportedly something of an underdog, who suffered from relentless bullying as a child, he took this mistreatment and spun it into determination, with an aggressive immersion into all forms of martial arts - including karate, judo and tae-kwon do. Then wrestling beckoned; Mane trained from the age of 19 on, first in Calgary, Alberta, then in Los Angeles. From 1986 through 1999, this Canuck import assumed the characterization of Big Sky (in a tag team with Kevin Nash) and as Nitron, and competed in professional wrestling tournaments around the world for the WCW and UWF.
Mane’s enormous size and expertise in karate made him a natural choice to play Wolverine’s foe Sabretooth in the big-screen version of the Marvel comic “X-Men”. The eagerly anticipated flick was released in the summer of 2000 and had Mane acting opposite the likes of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen during his feature-film debut. 
He followed that up with a small role in the David Spade comedy “The Adventures of Joe Dirt” (2001). Mane portrayed Ajax in Wolfgang Petersen’s historical film epic Troy (2004) and Anateus in Roger Young’s HBO miniseries Hercules (2005).
