The Miz

Michael Gregory Mizanin (born October 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, actor, and television personality.

He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name The Miz.

Michael Gregory Mizanin was born in Parma, Ohio, on October 8, 1980.

His parents are divorced; he has a step-father and two half-siblings.

He attended Normandy High School, where he was the captain of the basketball and cross country teams, participated in swimming, was a member of the student government, and edited the yearbook.

Mizanin first gained fame as a reality television participant, appearing on The Real World: Back to New York in 2001 and its spin-off, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, from 2002 to 2005.

He won Battle of the Seasons and The Inferno II.

He then attended Miami University, where he was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity and studied business at the Richard T. Farmer School of Business before being chosen as a cast member on The Real World (2001).

Mizanin dropped out of college, where he was pursuing a degree in business, in order to appear on the 10th season of MTV's reality television program The Real World in 2001.

He went on to appear in multiple seasons of its spin-off series, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, along with contestants from both Road Rules and The Real World, including Battle of the Seasons, The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2 and The Inferno 2.

Except for Battle of the Sexes 2, Mizanin made it to the end of all the Challenges on which he competed and won both Battle of the Seasons and The Inferno 2.

It was during an episode of The Real World that Mizanin first displayed an alter ego known as The Miz.

In contrast to Mizanin's usually placid demeanor, The Miz was angry, combative and headstrong.

Mizanin later realized that The Miz would make an excellent professional wrestling gimmick.

Mizanin signed with WWE in 2004, and debuted on the main roster in 2006.

He has won the WWE Championship twice, the Intercontinental Championship eight times, the United States Championship twice, as well as a total of eight tag team championships, giving him 20 overall championships in WWE.

In 2004, he appeared on the Bravo reality show Battle of the Network Reality Stars, in which his team finished second.

Mizanin was also a contestant in the "Reality Stars" episode of Fear Factor.

His partner was his former girlfriend and castmate, Trishelle Cannatella, and the two won the competition.

He reached the final of Battle of the Network Reality Stars, and won a Reality Stars-themed episode of Fear Factor in 2006.

After finishing as runner-up in the fourth season of Tough Enough and subsequently launching his wrestling career, Mizanin appeared on Diva Search, Total Divas, Tough Enough, and hosted several seasons of The Challenge.

In April 2007, he appeared on the game show Identity, where he appeared as a stranger, and contestant John Kim correctly identified his identity as a professional wrestler by the odd way he added "Miz-" before most words.

In 2008, Mizanin appeared on the Sci Fi reality series Ghost Hunters Live as a guest investigator.

In 2009, Mizanin appeared on two episodes of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, which were both aired on September 29.

He also won the 2010 Money in the Bank ladder match.

Mizanin is also the only WWE Triple Crown and Grand Slam champion to have won the Deep South Wrestling Heavyweight Championship, doing so while the promotion was WWE's developmental territory.

He appeared on an episode of Destroy Build Destroy on March 3, 2010.

Among WWE's most prolific pay-per-view event performers, Mizanin headlined WrestleMania XXVII in 2011, and was ranked No. 1 on Pro Wrestling Illustrated's annual PWI 500 list that same year.

On October 5, 2011, Miz starred in an episode of H8R.

After a seven-year-long absence from The Challenge, Mizanin returned to the reality show on April 4, 2012, as the host of The Battle of the Exes season finale event and reunion special.

It marked the first time The Miz appeared on the series since becoming a main-event WWE Superstar.

Since then, he had become a mainstay reunion host as well as the host of The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars mini-series.

He also appeared as a guest star in a March 2012 episode of Psych.

On March 31, Mizanin appeared in the first ever Slime Wrestling World Championship at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, losing to Big Show and therefore being thrown into a tub of slime.

In 2012, Mizanin appeared on the Disney XD show Pair of Kings as a guest star.

He also stars in the reality television series Miz & Mrs. alongside his wife, Maryse Ouellet, and has starred in films produced by WWE Studios, namely The Marine franchise, Christmas Bounty (2013), and Santa's Little Helper (2015).

In 2013, Miz along with Francia Raisa, were in a movie together called Christmas Bounty.

As a result, he became WWE's 25th Triple Crown Champion and 14th Grand Slam Champion, as well as the first wrestler to accomplish the latter twice under the revised 2015 format.

In 2018, Mizanin and his wife Maryse began starring in a USA Network reality television series titled Miz & Mrs..

In 2020, he starred on a second show on USA, serving as host of the reality game show Cannonball.