He even got his own spin-off adventure, “Hobbs & Shaw” (2019), which teamed him up with fellow franchise favorite Jason Statham.

One of the most recent was “Jungle Cruise” (2021) for Disney.īut it’s in high-concept action cinema that Johnson has found his greatest success, especially after hopping aboard the highly lucrative “Fast and Furious” franchise. A third-generation professional wrestler known the world over as “The Rock,” Johnson nabbed a supporting role in 2001’s “The Mummy Returns” and made such an impression that he starred in a successful stand-alone film, “The Scorpion King,” the very next year.Īs his film career progressed, it became evident that, despite his success in action films, Johnson had a distinct flair for comedy, which he began to show off in such films as “Be Cool” (2005), “Central Intelligence” (2016), “Moana” (2016) and in his biggest-grossing film, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” (2017). The road to movie stardom for Dwayne Johnson is one of the unlikeliest in recent memory.