As the main character and star of "Wayne's World" and its sequel, Mike Myers will always be synonymous with Wayne Campbell. In the story, Wayne resides in Aurora, Illinois, and is a heavy metal and rock and roll music fan, who hosts a public-access cable show called "Wayne's World." It stars him, his friend Garth Algar, and various other local personalities, who come onto the show to show off their inventions or talk about music. Wayne later meets Cassandra, the bass player and lead singer of the local band Crucial Taunt, and they start a relationship. He has to fend off corporate executive Benjamin Kane who tries to woo Cassandra away, with Wayne eventually winning out with his charm.
In real life, Myers has had one of the most successful careers of any of the "Wayne's World" alum. Having joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 1989, he stayed around as a regular member for a few years after the movie's release. Already a big draw, Myers hit mega-stardom with the release of the "Austin Powers" trilogy, which lasted from 1997–2002.
Some of his other popular titles include playing the titular character in the "Shrek" series, Guru Pitka in "The Love Guru," and the cat in "The Cat and the Hat." In 2022, Myers starred as multiple different characters on the Netflix series "The Pentaverate," which he also created.
