I did take a Stage Combat class, though, where we had to write and act out our own scenes. My roommate and I basically used it as an excuse to fake-beat the shit out of each other.
I was hired to do some fight scenes on a pilot and loved the excuse to do that with fully trained stuntment.
The gig basically happened because I'm a trained wrestler and the script had fat wrestling-based henchmen in it so I jumped on board, took two fellow fat wrestler types with me (I was something like 250lbs at the time and was the smallest) and I ended up teaching the stunt coordinator how to wrestle.
Which was awesome... teaching one of Batman's stunt coordinators stuff was amazing enough, but I also managed to get in my finisher.
Unfortunately when practicing I never heard the words "quarter speed" and almost killed the stunt double!
Aside from that and the odd high school musical deal, the only thing I've done is take part in student films. One girl annoyed me a little by saying I'd be perfect to play a stalker in her script.
I was highly offended. But it paid, so I took the job.
You could argue wrestling is an acting job, so I could say yes. But I only half believe that myself and the only part of the performance in the past few years I'd consider an act would be the masked gimmicks where I've put a lot into being different than my usual self.
There were plans to do a web-series based on the lives of our characters, penned by VideoGaiden's Rob Florence (who did a lot of work with us and was a pelasure to brainstorm with) and I'm involved with another acting project... but my professional acting debut would be highly dependant on getting a grant - so I'm not entirely hopeful.
