Daniel Stevens

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Daniel Stevens is a stunt performer who worked as stunt double for Zachary Quinto on under Stunt Coordinator John Stoneham, Jr. He performed Quinto's high fall and the following fight on the garbage barge with Benedict Cumberbatch's stunt double Martin De Boer as well as the scenes in the environmental suit inside the volcano. He was briefly interviewed in the special feature "Brawl by the Bay".
== Career ==
=== Early career ===
Born in Sydney, Australia, Stevens started working as stunt performer on the Australian television series Water Rats, Farscape, and Home and Away on which he doubled for actors Beau Brady, Ben Steel, Ben Unwin, Zac Drayson, and Christian Wills. He doubled actor in the episode "Boomerang: Part 1" (2000, with Steven Culp and Stephen Markle and stunt coordinated by Diamond Farnsworth) which was filmed in Australia, doubled Simon Scarlet in the television series Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001), and Ryan Johnson in the television series Head Start (2001).
Stevens worked as stunt double for actor on (2002) and (2005). In addition, he performed other stunts including as an Imperial guard thrown away by Yoda.
Further projects include the television series White Collar Blue (2002), Bad Cop, Bad Cop (2002), Comedy Inc. (2003), (2004), Blue Water High, All Saints (2005), and McLeod's Daughters (2006), (2002, with Karl Urban), the television crime drama BlackJack (2003), the short film Eastworld (2005), Bryan Singer's (2006, with Frank Langella, stunts by Mike Massa, and stunt coordinated by R.A. Rondell), (2006), and as stunt double for actor in (2005) and (2007, with Brandon Stacy and stunts by Michael J. Sarna).
=== Later career ===
Following his move to California, Stevens worked on the television series Chuck, Entourage (2008), and Trust Me (2009, with Scott Klace and Sufe Bradshaw), as stunt double for in four episodes of (2008-2009, starring Ken Jenkins and stunt coordinated by Noon Orsatti), as stunt double for Ian Bohen in (2009, with Robert Knepper, Leon Russom, Michael McGrady, and Raphael Sbarge, stunt coordinated by Eric Norris, and stunts by Tanner Gill, Eddie Braun, Diana R. Lupo, and Jeff Wolfe), and as stunt double for Beau Mirchoff in (2009, with Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong, and Jeffrey Nordling).
Stevens doubled Vinnie Jones in (2008), Travis Fimmel in (2008), performed stunts in the short film The Interview (2009, coordinated by Aaron Toney), the action thriller Angel of Death (2009, with James Lew, Monica Staggs, Chien Funan, Sala Baker, and Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom), and in the adventure Where the Wild Things Are (2009), and doubled William Fichtner in the television movie Night and Day (2010, stunt coordinated by Tanner Gill).
In 2008, Stevens started to work on comic adaptations when he performed stunts as stunt double for in Iron Man. This work earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2009. In 2009, he doubled in and in 2011 he worked as stunt double for on Green Lantern. Stevens was one of the stunt performers in (2012, starring Tom Hardy) and worked again as stunt double for Hugh Jackman on The Wolverine (2013) and (2014). On the latter one, he also worked as fight coordinator. For The Dark Knight Rises, The Wolverine, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, Stevens received his second, third, and fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in the years 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Other projects Stevens performed stunts in include (2009-2010), Dollhouse (2009-2010), (2010-2016), Raising Hope (2011), American Horror Story (2011, with Tim Sitarz), as double for in (2011), Parks and Recreation (2012, with Antal Kalik and Trevor Habberstad), True Blood (2012, coordinated by Hiro Koda and stunts by Brian Hite and Henry Kingi, Jr.), Major Crimes (2012-2017, coordinated by Spike Silver and doubling Kenneth Mitchell), and Sons of Anarchy (2013).
He doubled Chris Pine in (2010) and Ryan Reynolds in (2011), performed boxing fights against Tom Hardy in (2011), performed stunts in (2010), (2010), and in (2011), and doubled Tom Hanks in (2011). Also in 2011, Stevens worked as stunt coordinator on the short action drama Fatal, directed, produced and written by Chien Funan.
Stevens doubled Jermaine Clement in (2012), in the drama Mud (2012, stunts by Jim Halty, Randy Hall, and Richard L. Blackwell), Max Irons in (2013, with stunts by Tim Rigby, Noon Orsatti, Heidi Moneymaker, Al Goto, and Jeremy Fry), Vinnie Jones in the action comedy In Security (2013), in (2013, coordinated by Ben Bray), and in (2014).
He performed stunts in (2014) and (2015, coordinated by Trevor Habberstad), doubled Chris Pine in (2014, coordinated by Tom Harper), Ryan Reynolds in (2015), and Hugh Jackman in (2015). He continued working as stuntman in the when he doubled in an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015, coordinated by Tanner Gill), Robert Downey, Jr. in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Hugh Jackman again in Logan (2017), and Chris Hemsworth in (2017). He performed stunts in the action drama The Accountant (2016) and (2016). His work in Captain America: Civil War earned him his fifth Screen Actor's Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
=== Recent work ===
Stevens worked as stunt double for on (2017, working for Andy Gill and Ilram Choi) and in several episodes of (2018). He performed stunts in episodes of Lethal Weapon (2017, with Simon Rhee, Mike Mukatis, and Jeremy Fitzgerald for Tim Trella and Tim Rigby) and Angie Tribeca (2018), (2018), (2018), and in (2018). He worked as stunt coordinator on (2018, with Thom Williams) and as assistant stunt coordinator on (2018, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
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