LIST | Rugby Players Who Underwent a Drastic Career Change After Retiring - Page 2 of 5 - Ruck

LIST | Rugby Players Who Underwent a Drastic Career Change After Retiring

2. Martin Bayfield – Actor

Despite now being the face of BT Sport’s Gallagher Premiership coverage, the giant second-row has done a fair bit of acting. He has worked as a journalist, an after-dinner speaker and has since appeared in all of the Harry Potter films playing the half-giant Hagrid, as Robbie Coltrane’s body and stunt double. He also appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as a young Rubeus Hagrid. Continuing the acting theme, he also played a cyclops in Jonathan Liebesman’s Wrath of the Titans, the sequel to 2010 movie Clash of the Titans.

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