Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado is an American professional wrestler and actress better known as her WWE ring name Sasha Banks. Banks made her acting debut in season 2 of the acclaimed show The Mandalorian (2019) in the role of Koska Reeves. She previously wrestled on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling, where she once held the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. Between WWE and their developmental brand NXT, Banks has had eight championship reigns-being a former NXT Women's Champion, 5-time Raw Women's Champion and inaugural and 2-time WWE Women's tag team champions with Bayley and 1 time SmackDown Women's Champion. Her match against Bayley at NXT Takeover: Respect (2015) on October 7, 2015 was the first women's match to ever headline a major WWE event, the first women's Iron Man match. In 2016, she and Charlotte Flair became the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event and the first to compete in a Hell in a Cell match (both at WWE Hell in a Cell (2016) in October 2016), the first women to main event WWE Monday Night RAW (1993-) in a women's match since 2004. At WrestleMania 37 Banks and her opponent Bianca Belair became first African born performers to headlining WrestleMania. Banks is also first 1990s born wrestler to headlining WrestleMania. - IMDb Mini Biography By: AB THE BOSS
