Mike Massa

Mike Massa is a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, and director who served as Chris Pine's main stunt double in . In Massa earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture as part of the Star Trek stunt crew. The same year he received two Taurus World Stunt Award nominations in the categories Best High Work and Best Specialty Stunt. He shared the first nomination with Daniel Arrias, Ilram Choi, Anthony Molinari, and Paul Lacovara and the second one with Paul Lacovara. Massa also doubled Chris Pine in , under stunt coordination by John Robotham.
Born as Michael John Massa in Frankfurt, West Germany, he is probably best known as stunt coordinator and main stunt double for lead actor in (1999-2004) on which he worked with Trek stunt performers Mike Gunther, Scott Workman, Spiro Razatos, Mike Mukatis, and Christopher Leps.
Massa has worked in the stunt business since the early '90s, with performances in the television series America's Most Wanted, Superboy, Super Force, , Thunder in Paradise, Pointman, , Seven Days (1998, with Norman Lloyd, Alan Scarfe, and stunts by Pat Romano, Scott Workman, and Michael Owen), and Roswell (starring William Sadler). His film credits in the '90s include (1996, stunt coordinated by Glenn R. Wilder), (1996), (1997, with stunts by Don Pulford, Janet Brady, Mark Chadwick, Marjean Holden, and Michelle Sebek), (1997, with Dina Meyer, Clancy Brown, and Brenda Strong), and (1999).
The following years Massa doubled for in (2001) and (2003), in (2001), in (2003), in (2003), in Bryan Singer's (2006), and in (2008).
Television work includes , , Miracles, General Hospital, (2005, with Alicia Coppola, Kate McNeil, and Patti Yasutake), (2006, with Glenn Morshower, Peter Weller, and stunts by Jeff Cadiente and Erik Stabenau), (2006, with Scott Grimes, Leland Orser, and Maury Sterling), (2006, with Rachel Nichols, Amanda Foreman, and stunts by Shauna Duggins), and (2006, stunt coordinated by Charlie Brewer), and film credits are (2000, starring William Shatner, (2003), (2004, with stunts by Oliver Keller), (2004), (2004), (2004), (2005, starring William Shatner), (2005), (2006), (2007), (2007), and (2007).
In 2002 he was nominated for an American Choreography Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fight Choreography for the Angel episode A New World. Two years later he was part of the stunt crew which won a Taurus World Stunt Award for Best Specialty Stunt in The Italian Job. In 2009 he was among those stunt performers who were nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Massa also worked as stunt coordinator on several projects such as (2004, with Rebecca Romijn), (2005) and (2006, starring Rebecca Romijn, with Mike Gunther and Monica Staggs), (2008), (2008), (2009-2010), Zeke and Luther (2009), and True Blood (2010-2011), (2009, with Molly Hagan) and the comedy The Proposal (2009, with Michael Nouri and Mary-Linda Rapelye).
Further stunt work include (2008, with Gabrielle Union and stunts by Alex Madison, Kimberly Murphy, and Darlene Ava Williams), (2009), (2009, with Geoff Meed, Chris Durand, and Gary Wayton), (2009, with Ned Vaughn and stunts by Eddie Braun, Ken Clark, Kevin Derr, and Kurt D. Lott), episodes of (2009, with Ned Vaughn, Deborah Lacey, and Arne Starr), Sons of Anarchy (2009, with William Lucking, Ron Perlman, Jeff Kober, Douglas Tait, Mickey Cassidy, and Tim Sitarz), and Grimm (2012), (2010), (2011), and (2011).
Massa worked as stunt coordinator on (2013, with Randy Hall and Mike Mukatis), doubled actor in (2013, with Sala Baker, Mark Chadwick, Ilram Choi, Shauna Duggins, Dane Farwell, Lisa Hoyle, Brian Simpson, and Salomon Passariello), actor in (2013, with Mark Wagner, Erica Grace, Mike Gunther, Angela Meryl, Simon Rhee, Chrissy Weathersby, and April Weeden), and performed stunts in (2013), (2013), (2013), (2014, with Glenn R. Wilder and Oliver Keller), and an episode of Agent Carter (2015, with Marcus Young, Denney Pierce, and Kimberly Murphy).
==Star Trek appearances==
File:Mike Massa, Star Trek (2009).jpg|Stunt double for Chris Pine
File:Mike Massa, Into Darkness.jpg|Stunt double for Chris Pine
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