Michael Gregory Mizanin (born on October 8, 1980, in Parma, Ohio), better known by his ring name The Miz, is an American professional wrestler, actor, and television personality. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE since 2004, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. 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 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. He also starred 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). Mizanin signed with WWE in 2004 and has been on the main roster full time since 2006. He has won numerous championships, including the WWE Championship twice and the Intercontinental Championship eight times. He is 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. He is the first, and to date only, WWE wrestler to simultaneously hold three championships in WWE, holding the United States Championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship (the latter two as part of the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship) in 2010. He also won the 2010 Money in the Bank ladder match. Among WWE's most prolific pay-per-view event performers,[5] Mizanin headlined WrestleMania XXVII in 2011, and was ranked No. 1 on Pro Wrestling Illustrated's annual PWI 500 list that same year.