Women In Stunts

The Bumblebee stunt team showed up for rehearsals for the latest in the Transformers movie franchise. They were preparing to film the stunt. The rehearsal that day involved 11 stunt drivers and 3 passengers – all men. One of the drivers was told to wear a wig to double for a woman. There was no female stunt drivers included.

Stunt work is dangerous, but someone’s got to do it. Behind every great action film is a stuntwoman who risked her life to pull off dangerous feats we’d only dare to attempt if we’re playing video games. These action movie heroines (let’s be real, they’re the actual stars) have...

If you'd worked as body doubles for the likes of Charlize Theron, Cara Delevingne and X-Men's Rebecca Romijn like world-famous Canadian trainer Monique Ganderton has, it's safe to say you'd know a thing or two about what it takes to make an actress look like a highly trained killer, fighter...

Annabel Wood has performed stunts in some of Hollywood's biggest hits including Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Wonder Woman, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and The Mummy, and TV work is no less impressive with her 3 year stint on Game of Thrones.

Meegan Godfrey is a skilled and fearless stuntwoman known for her precision, athleticism, and dedication to the craft of action performance. With a career rooted in physical discipline and on-set professionalism, she has built a reputation as a reliable and versatile performer in film and television. From an early age,...

It was a natural progression for Caroline Day to take her love of competition and performing to the next level, and she became a professional stuntwoman performing in films and TV. She found her way to Hollywood and was invited to join the United Stuntwomen’s Association. She is also a board member of the Stuntwomen’s Foundation.

In 1967 a group of women joined together to let the film and television industry know that they needed "women to stunt double, women!" Today, the Stuntwomen's Association of Motion Pictures has 32 members and is growing. Together members have hundreds of major motion picture and television credits.

After a successful career in the circus, Noby Arden pursued a career in stunts. She has stunt doubled for many actresses including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rose McGowan, Alicia Silverstone and others. She has worked on Rush Hour 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2 and 3, Star Trek: Nemesis, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Jessica Medina is a stuntwomen and an action actress who has trained in the martial arts, as a distance running, aerobics and military tactics. Her work includes the feature films The Fate of the Furious (2017) and Domestic Seduction (2017), and TV shows including Madam Secretary (2016), and Luke Cage (2018) MacGyver (2016-2018).

Actress Melissa McCarthy destroyed all misconceptions that women can’t be funny and take on leading roles in action films. She did both in The Heat (2013), Spy (2015) and Ghostbusters (2016) and Superintelligence (2019) and helped re-invent action comedy, buddy movies, and comedy sci-fi blockbusters.