Nathan Jones is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on August 21, 1967 in Gold Coast, Australia. Former WWA World Heavyweight Champion, Wrestler and Strongman Competitor. He was the role of Rictus Erectus, in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
In 1996, he began his acting career. He starred in many films including Troy (2004) starring He began an acting career in 1996 and appeared in a number of films including 2004’s Troy starring Brad Pitt..
Jones was born in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Before his career as a wrestler, Jones was sentenced to 16 years in 1987 at the age of 17 to Boggo Road Gaol for eight armed robberies between 1985–1987, two of which occurred in Tasmania. During the robberies, he became one of Australia’s most wanted and ended up serving seven years in a maximum-security prison. In 1994, Jones was given one year work release before being discharged at the age of 25. While in prison, he was introduced to the sport of powerlifting. He is also alleged to have begun taking steroids during this time. Within a short space of time, he became the National Powerlifting Champion of Australia.
Jones next took part in the 1995 World’s Strongest Man contest. After quickly defeating Phil Martin twice in the arm wrestling event in the qualifying heat, Jones was then matched against Magnus Samuelsson, who had been Europe’s arm wrestling champion for several years and who would become the World’s Strongest Man in 1998. Samuelsson won the first round. In the second round Jones refused to go down and pulled with his opposite arm, twisting his body. This resulted in breaking the arm he was using to wrestle (a spiral fracture of the humerus), and he subsequently was out of the competition. Jones returned to Strongman competition in 1996 winning the World Strongman Challenge, and placed third in a World’s Strongest Man qualifying heat behind Magnús Ver Magnússon and Jorma Ojanaho.
He was born in Queensland, Australia and was raised there. He is the father of a daughter and son with Jerri Jones.
