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David Otunga
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American professional wrestler
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David Otunga is an American lawyer, actor, professional wrestler, and television actor born on 7 April 1980 in Elgin, Illinois. He was educated at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and Harvard Law School, and lives in Chicago. He began his professional wrestling career on 9 May 2009, training under head coach Tom Prichard.
Otunga has been an unmarried partner and spouse of Jennifer Hudson.
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Film & TV
Elgin, Illinois, USA
David Daniel Otunga is an American actor, lawyer, and former professional wrestler. Otunga is best known for his time working with WWE. He was the runner-up on the first season of NXT. He is also an original member of The Nexus and The New Nexus, being the only member present through the entire duration of the stable in every incarnation. As part of the faction, he became a two-time WWE Tag Team…
Known for
- A Jar Full of Christmas — Ernesto Chavez2024
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — Derek2022
- Baking Up Love — Coach Robinson2021
- A Madea Family Funeral — Will2019
- WWE Money in the Bank 2019 — Pre-show panel2019
- Sandy Wexler — Reporter at Hollywood Sign2017
- What Happened Last Night — Tiny2016
- The Edge and Christian Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness — Himself2016
- WWE: Ring in the Holiday2015
- WWE WrestleMania XXX — David Otunga2014
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1980-04-07 ) April 7, 1980 (age 46) , Elgin, Illinois , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor lawyer professional wrestler
- Years active
- 2005–2007 (law), 2007–present (acting), 2009–2015 (wrestling)
- Partner s
- Jennifer Hudson , (2007–2017)
- Ring name s
- David Otunga, Dawson Alexander
- Billed height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
- Billed weight
- 229 lb (104 kg)
- Billed from
- Hollywood, California
- Trained by
- Tom Prichard , Norman Smiley
- Debut
- May 29, 2009
- Retired
- July 5, 2015
- Website
- davidotunga .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Elgin
- Spouse
- Jennifer Hudson
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- Harvard Law School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Mass
- 104
- Official website
- davidotunga.com
- Image
- Otunga in London.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Residence
- Chicago
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- Commons category
- David Otunga
- date of birth
- 1980-04-07
- unmarried partner
- Jennifer Hudson
- head coach
- Tom Prichard
- start of work period
- 2009-05-09
- social media followers
- 579061
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
David Daniel Otunga (born April 7, 1980) is an American actor, professional wrestler and lawyer. He is best known for his tenure with WWE from 2009 to 2020.
Otunga was the runner-up on the first season of WWE NXT and later an original member of The Nexus and The New Nexus, being the only member present through the entire duration of the stable in every incarnation. He became a two-time WWE Tag Team Champion, having one reign each with fellow Nexus members John Cena and Michael McGillicutty.
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