List of famous stunt performers, with photos, bios, and other information when available. Who are the top stunt performers in the world? This includes the most prominent stunt performers, living and dead, both in America and abroad. This list of notable stunt performers is ordered by their level of prominence, and can be sorted for various bits of information, such as where these historic stunt performers were born and what their nationality is. The people on this list are from different countries, but what they all have in common is that they're all renowned stunt performers.
From reputable, prominent, and well known stunt performers to the lesser known stunt performers of today, these are some of the best professionals in the stunt performer field. If you want to answer the questions, "Who are the most famous stunt performers ever?" and "What are the names of famous stunt performers?" then you're in the right place. (1302 items)
Jackie Chan Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director, producer and singer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised ...more
Chris Farley Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley was an American comedian and actor. Farley was known for his loud, energetic comedic style, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast ...more
Harry Houdini Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as "Harry Handcuff ...more
Joe Manganiello Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiello is an American actor, director, producer, and author. He played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3 films and had various ...more
Jackie Gleason John Herbert “Jackie” Gleason was an American comedian, actor, and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, exemplified by his character Ralph Kramden in The ...more
Terry Funk Terrence "Terry" Funk is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and former actor, known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that ...more
Criss Angel Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, better known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American magician and illusionist. Angel began his career in New York City, before moving his base of ...more
Taryn Terrell Taryn Nicole Terrell is an American professional wrestler, referee, actress, and stuntwoman, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she is the current TNA Knockouts Champion ...more
David Blaine David Blaine is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up ...more
Verne Troyer Verne J. Troyer is an American actor and stunt performer. He is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in, the result of cartilage-hair hypoplasia dwarfism, making him one of the shortest men in the ...more
Johnny Knoxville Philip John "PJ" Clapp Jr., known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, comedian, actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as a co-creator ...more
Buster Keaton Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was ...more
Evel Knievel Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was an American daredevil, painter, entertainer, and international icon. In his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 ...more
Dayle Haddon Dayle Haddon is a Canadian model and actress, presently known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L'Oréal. Additionally, she is credited as author of Ageless Beauty: A ...more
Steve-O Steve-O is a British American Canadian actor, stunt performer, producer, comedian, author, musician, and clown. His entertainment career is mostly centered on his performance stunts on the ...more
Bam Margera Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, actor, musician, and stunt performer. He came to prominence after appearing in MTV's Jackass crew. He has since ...more
Michael Jai White Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a ...more
Richard Farnsworth Richard W. Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox and The Straight Story, ...more
John Schneider John Richard Schneider is an American actor and country music singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bo Duke in the 1970s–1980s American television series The Dukes of Hazzard, Jonathan ...more
John Landis John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedy films, his horror films, and his music videos with Michael Jackson. He directed ...more
Marie Avgeropoulos Marie Avgeropoulos is a Canadian actress and model. Her break-out role was as Valli Wooley in the 2009 film I Love You, Beth Cooper directed by Chris Columbus. Since then, she has appeared in ...more
Jayan Krishnan Nair, better known by his stage name Jayan, was an Indian film actor, naval officer, stunt performer and cultural icon of the 1970s. He has starred in over 120 Malayalam films. During ...more
Ryan Dunn Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American stunt performer, television personality, comedian, actor, writer and musician. He was a member of the Jackass and Viva La Bam crew. Dunn came to prominence as a ...more
Allen Robinson Allen Bernard Robinson II is an American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round of the 2014 NFL ...more
Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar born on 9 September 1967 is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. He has been nominated for Filmfare Awards several ...more
Chuck Zito Charles "Chuck" Carmine Zito, Jr., is an American actor, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman, former boxing trainer and former president of the New York ...more
Tatchakorn Yeerum Japanom Yeerum, formerly Tatchakorn Yeerum or Phanom Yeerum, better known internationally as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Phanom, is a Thai martial artist, physical educator, actor, action ...more
Scott Adkins Scott Edward Adkins is an English actor and martial artist who is best known for playing Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing and Undisputed III: Redemption, Bradley Hume in Holby ...more
Tonya Kay Tonya Kay is an American actress, television personality, and performance artist appearing in independent films and episodic television. Her background includes performing stunts and what she ...more
Herbert L. Becker Herbert Lawrence Becker is a former magician who also wrote a computer program described by him as "broadcasting analog signals over the internet in real time" in 2000. He is also the ...more
Daniel Cudmore Daniel Cudmore is a Canadian actor and stuntman. He is perhaps best known for his roles as the mutant Piotr Rasputin/Colossus in the X-Men film franchise, and as the Volturi Felix in the ...more
Nina Kaczorowski Nina Kaczorowski, a.k.a. Nina K, is an American actress, stunt woman, model and dancer. Nina was born in New Jersey into a large family from Łódź, Poland. The family moved to Texas when ...more
Al Snow Allen "Al" Ray Sarven is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name of Al Snow. He is currently signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ...more
George Montgomery George Montgomery was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television.
Monte Blue Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles.
Roger Cross Roger Cross is a Jamaican-born Canadian actor who has made numerous appearances in several movies and TV series, mostly on productions shot in Canada. He is best known for his work in America on ...more
Alex Sander Alex Sander is an actor, film score composer, casting director, film editor, television editor, film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Dorothy Dietrich Dorothy Dietrich is an American stage magician and escapologist, and the first and only woman to have performed the bullet catch in her mouth. She was also the first woman to perform a ...more
Tony Cox Joseph Anthony "Tony" Cox is an American actor known for his comedic performances in Bad Santa, Me, Myself and Irene, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Disaster Movie. He is also known for ...more
Steve Antin Steven Howard "Steve" Antin is an American actor, stunt man, screenwriter, producer, and director, probably most known for his performance in The Last American Virgin.
Felix Silla Felix Anthony Silla, also credited as Felix Cilla, is an Italian-born American film and television actor and stuntman, best known for his role as the costumed character of "Cousin Itt" ...more
David Barrett David Barrett is a TV director who has directed episodes of TV shows including "Veronica Mars", "The O.C.", and "The Mentalist".
Mark Neveldine Mark Neveldine is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and camera operator. He is best known for frequently collaborating with Brian Taylor as Neveldine/Taylor.
Lau Kar Wing Lau Kar Wing is a Hong Kong martial arts film director, action choreographer and actor.
Evan Karagias Evan Karagias is an American professional wrestler and actor.
Spice Williams-Crosby Spice Williams-Crosby is an American actress and stunt performer, with a career in film and television which spans over twenty years. Williams-Crosby was born in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...more
David R. Ellis David Richard Ellis was an American film director and stuntman born in Santa Monica, California in 1952.
Stacy Peralta Stacy Peralta is an American director and entrepreneur. He was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the professional skateboarding group, the Z-Boys.
Christina Cox Christina Cox is a Canadian movie and television actress and stuntwoman.
Mando Guerrero Armando Guerrero Llanes, better known as Mando Guerrero, is a retired Mexican born American professional wrestler. He also was the trainer for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, an all female ...more
