---
name: "Robert Maillet"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-maillet"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 October 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T07:06:26.851748+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Robert Maillet

Actor. Born 26 October 1969 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 October 1969, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
- **Also known as:** 	Acadian Giant, Giant Kurrgan, Gigante Kurrgan, Goliath El Gigante, Kurrgan, Goliath The Giant, The Interrogator, Kurrgan The Interrogator, Robert Norman Maillet
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maillet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589775, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537631/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/112692

## Biography

Robert Maillet is a Canadian actor and retired professional wrestler. He began wrestling in 1989 under names including the Acadian Giant and Goliath El Gigante, and competed in Canada, Japan and South Korea. In 1997 he joined the World Wrestling Federation as Kurrgan, a member of The Truth Commission and later The Oddities, before retiring from the ring around 2011 to focus on acting.

Maillet made his film debut in 2007 as the Uber Immortal in *300*. Subsequent roles include Dredger in *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), the Minotaur in *Immortals* (2011), Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky in *Pacific Rim* (2013), Blackwell in *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), Polyphemus in *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters* (2013), the Executioner in *Hercules* (2014), Sluggo in *Deadpool 2* (2018) and Apex in *Becky* (2020). He has also appeared in television series including *The Strain* and *The Umbrella Academy*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pacific Rim* (2013), Fi1m 70, as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky — [page](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Vicious Fun* (2021), as Mike
- *Jupiter's Legacy* (2021), series, as Big Man
- *Becky* (2020), as Apex
- *The Umbrella Academy* (2019), series, as Lights Out Lubbock
- *Polar* (2019), as Karl
- *Once Upon a Deadpool* (2018), as Sluggo
- *The Shipment* (2018), as Rotik
- *Deadpool 2* (2018), as Sluggo
- *Game Over, Man!* (2018), as Chet
- *Killer Waves* (2016), as Barracuda Ben
- *Rabid Dogs* (2015), as Homme ours #2
- *Hercules* (2014), as Executioner
- *The Strain* (2014), series, as The Master, The Master / Jusef Sardu
- *Brick Mansions* (2014), as Yeti
- *The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet* (2013), as Giant Hobo
- *Septic Man* (2013), as Giant
- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), as Blackwell
- *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters* (2013), as Polyphemus / Laistrygonian
- *Pacific Rim* (2013), as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim.md)
- *A Little Bit Zombie* (2012), as Terry 'Terror' Thompkins
- *Immortals* (2011), as Minotaur
- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), series, as Behemoth
- *Monster Brawl* (2011), as Frankenstein
- *The Big Bang* (2011), as Anton 'The Pro' Protopov
- *Haven* (2010), series, as Heavy
- *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), as Dredger
- *Merlin* (2008), series, as Derian
- *300* (2007), as Uber Immortal (Giant)
- *WWE Royal Rumble 1999* (1999), as Kurrgan
- *WWE Rock Bottom: In Your House* (1998), as Kurrgan
- *WWE SummerSlam 1998* (1998), as Kurrgan
- *WWE Heat* (1998), series, as Kurrgan
- *WWE WrestleMania XIV* (1998), as Kurrgan (Appearance)
- *WWE Royal Rumble 1998* (1998), as Kurrgan
- *WWE Survivor Series 1997* (1997), as The Interrogator
- *Lexx* (1997), series, as Leroy
- *L'Homme du Picardie* (1968), series, as Michel Lemahieu
- *A.S.T.*, as Vaillante de Champlain / 'Lurch'

## Gallery

- ![Robert Maillet](https://film.one/media/person/1002776/gallery-752f883c01a8.jpg) Robert Maillet — Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Robert_Maillet.jpg/1280px-Robert_Maillet.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robert Maillet](https://film.one/media/person/1002776/gallery-773778169125.jpg) Robert Maillet — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Maillet](https://film.one/media/person/1002776/gallery-5f7a3e204545.jpg) Robert Maillet — Image via TMDB

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/robert-maillet