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Is it possible to be a serious athlete while acting?

What are the best acting performances by a major athlete in a film?

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    Ray Allen in . I thought Ray Allen was very convincing as a superstar high school senior who is beset with temptations and hangers-on as he struggles to make his decision where to attend college. Many critics agree with this point of view. In 2000, Jay Carr of the Boston Globe wrote: Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen delivers nothing less than the best performance ever put on film by a pro athlete. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/he_got_game/#!reviews=top_critics

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I'd like to propose the late great French WWF wrestler André the Giant (André Roussimoff), for his sweetness and comic timing as Fezzik in The Princess Bride. ("Anybody want a peanut?")

Stephanie Fysh

Michael Jordan in Space Jam (1996). If you disagree with me then I'm afraid you're wrong.

Brock Atkinson

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in The Game of Death (1978) 's Jim Brown in The Dirty Dozen was more impressive though...

Ronald S Woan

Can I propose "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in the classic John Carperters They Live (1988). Classic film, classic character, classic script.

Paul Harrison

Lawrence Taylor was really good in Any Given Sunday. Cam Neely made a really funny cameo as Sea Bass in Dumb and Dumber. And of course Ray Allen was outstanding in He Got Game.

Brian Hennessy

Kareem Abdul-Jabaar in AIRPLANE, and Bruce Lee's Game of Death. He really was a student of Bruce Lee, too. 

Steven Lowell

Arnold Schwartzenegger in The Terminator His performance in The Terminator made him a household name.  "I'll be back."

Pat Roberts

Carl Weathers in the Rocky films (wasn't so keen on him in Predator)? Not sure if he counts as a 'major athlete', though - he only played 8 games for the Oakland Raiders...

Steve Baker

Alex English, Nuggets basketball player, in Amazing Grace and Chuck Jim Brown in The Dirty Dozen--he had just retired from the NFL Bernie Casey in Tick...Tick...Tick John Matuzak in North Dallas Forty

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