Heidi Moneymaker

Heidi Moneymaker is a stuntwoman and action actress who has an action part as a Kelvin crewmember in . She previously worked for J.J. Abrams when she served as stunt double for Keri Russell in (2006, alongside Star Trek stunt players Robert Alonzo, Greg Barnett, Steve Blalock, Joey Box, Jennifer Caputo, Eliza Coleman, Mark De Alessandro, Dana Dru Evenson, Tanner Gill, Yoshio Iizuka, Terry Jackson, Marty Murray, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, Jim Palmer, Chris Palermo, Dennis Scott, Mark Riccardi, Ator Tamras, Xuyen Valdivia, Spice Williams, Mark Wagner, and Scott Workman).
She was born as Heidi Louise Moneymaker in Santa Rosa, California and attended the University of California, where she joined the gymnastics group and became uneven bars and vault team champion in 1997 and 2000 and individual champion in 1998 and 1999. As a skilled gymnast, Moneymaker competed in the 1999 World University Games and received two Honda Award nominations. She earned a BA in History from UCLA.
With this skilled background, Moneymaker made the step and has worked as a stuntwoman and stunt actress on television series and films since 2002. Memorable was her bungee jump stunt performance in the episode People with Money (2006), which also featured Robert Joy and Michael Nouri.
Moneymaker has doubled for in the television series All That, for in (starring Melinda Clarke), for in (2006-2007, alongside Thom Williams, Derek Mears, Stacey Carino, Tucker Smallwood, Raymond Cruz, and under stunt coordinator Al Jones and director Marc Buckland), and for in (2006-2008). Other television series she has performed in include , The Amanda Show, , Carnivále, , , and (2007, alongside Steve Kelso and Paul Lacovara, under stunt coordinator Diamond Farnsworth).
She has doubled in (2002, with Valarie Ianniello, Chelsea Bond, and under stunt coordination of Frank Orsatti), in (2002, alongside Lisa Hoyle, Nicole Randall, and Darlene Ava Williams), in (2003, with Cyia Batten and Lou Slaughter, under stunt coordination of Mic Rodgers and Tim Trella), and more recently in (2008).
Other feature film performances include (2004), (2005), (2005), (2005, with Jennifer Morrison, Megan Gallagher, and Mark Newsom), (2005), (2005, with Ron Glass, Amy Wieczorek, Terrell Tilford, and stunts by Steve Blalock, Edward Conna, Tom Huff, Jeff Imada, Chris O'Hara, Bridgett Riley, Tim Sitarz, and Xuyan Valdivia), (2006), (2006), (2007, with Kirsten Dunst), (2007), and (2007).
She also appeared in (2008, with Lily Mariye), (2008, alongside Nicole Randall, Brandon Stacy, and Boni Yanagisawa), and (2009, with Troy Brenna). Moneymaker is also the mo-cap stunt double for the character in the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld (2008, with Greg Ellis and Chrissy Weathersby).
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