Women In Stunts

Stunt driver Susan Purkhiser spends her days stunt driving in movies and television shows. She was the stunt double for Charlize Theron in the film The Italian Job (2003) where she can be seen driving a Mini Cooper down a flight of stairs and flying out of a sewer tunnel. Purkhiser is...

Anna Mercedes Morris has numerous Hollywood credits including over 75 film and TV shows. She has stunt doubled for over 50 actresses including Kate Mara, Gina Gershon, Jennifer Lopez, Janel Parrish, Pamela Adlon and more. Anna's past films include Oscar nominated 127 Hours, Drag Me To Hell, The Expendables and Superhero Movie.

Jasi Cotton Lanier has worked and stund doubled in numerous films and TV shows such as Alice in Wonderland, Castle, Raising Hope, Vampire Diaries, and Criminal Minds. While continuing to work in stunts, Jasi is also acting, appearing in the short Broken and featured on all female "Jack Ass" style stunt show called Cherry Bombs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ijWeNbMHs Professional stuntwoman Meredith Richardson is known by many in the stunt industry as BAMA. Unknown to Meredith, she began her stunt career at the age of 4 when she began studying gymnastics in Montgomery, Alabama and never quit. She was a state champion, regional champion, as well as a national...

Stuntwoman, actress and producer Teresa Tree O'Toole was a top Olympic-style boxer for more than six years. Tree began doing stunts in North Carolina on television shows and movies. She moved to Los Angeles to continue her career and is a member of the United Stuntwomen's Association and the Board of the Stuntwomen's Foundation.

After losing two consecutive matches while wrestling on his high school wrestling team, Rick Avery learned from his wrestling coach what would become Rick’s life motto—regardless of the risk factor and intensity of whatever obstacles he faced, he would show “no quit.” Throughout his challenging careers as a police...

Andy Armstrong is part of the Armstrong family, a living dynasty of stunt performers who have been responsible for as many action moments on film as any family on earth. Andy has written, directed and produced movies and TV and lectures on the art of action movie making in colleges and film schools.

Action Movie Maker's Handbook is Movie Action Director and Stunt Coordinator Andy Armstrong's instruction manual for anyone making action movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zj7MdCEi48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LApk23xdgI Norwegian actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal was born March 2, 1980 in Utøy, Inderøy. She began her career in the short film Limbo (2005) and got her first leading role in Norwegian slasher film Cold Prey (2006), which won her the Norwegian Amanda Award for Best Actress. She was...

Yancy Butler is an an American actress. producer and voice over artist. She the damsel in distress to Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target (1993), the Hollywood debut of legendary Hong Kong action filmmaker John Woo. She also had the lead role in the TNT made-for-TV movie version of the popular comic book, Witchblade (2000).