Janet Lee Orcutt

Janet Lee Orcutt is a former stuntwoman who appeared as a J'naii guard in the fifth season episode . She received no credit for this appearance. Her costume was part of a lot which was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Orcutt filmed her scenes with fellow stuntwoman Mary Peters under stunt coordination of Dennis Madalone on Tuesday on Paramount Stage 16.
Orcutt was born in Indiana and moved to Los Angeles to become a stuntwoman. As a successful swimmer and driver who earned several medals, she studied with Bob Yerkes and at Kahana's Stunt School. Her first film she worked on was the 1983 horror film Frightmare with Jeffrey Combs. 
In the '80s she worked as a stunt performer in (1985, with Faith Minton), (1986, with Marshall R. Teague and stunts by Janet Brady and Tony Epper), (1987, with Robert Picardo and Wendy Schaal), (1987, with stunts by Bernie Pock), as stunt double for in the drama Blackout (1988, with Joanna Miles), (1988), (1988, with Scott Grimes and stunts by Chris Doyle, John Escobar, Al Jones, Lane Leavitt, and Noon Orsatti), (1988, with stunts by Lynn Salvatori), the horror film Criminal Act (1989, with stunts by Phil Chong, Bill McTosh, and Jeff Smolek), the drama Red Surf (1989, with stunts by Chuck Borden, B.J. Davis, Chris Doyle, Ken Lesco, Irving Lewis, and Dennis Madalone), the horror film Family Reunion (1989), and the Beauty and the Beast episode The Outsiders (1989, starring Ron Perlman and with Greg Barnett, Tony Epper, and Armin Shimerman).
In the '90s, Orcutt performed stunts in (1990, with Iggy Pop and Denney Pierce), (1990, with Miguel Ferrer, Natalia Nogulich, and stunts by Simone Boisseree, Pat Romano, and Kym Washington), (1990, with Jim Metzler, Barbara Alyn Woods, Dennis Christopher, and stunts by Chuck Borden, Tony Cecere, George Colucci, B.J. Davis, Chris Doyle, Ken Lesco, Dyanna Lynn, and Dennis Madalone), (1990, with stunts by Janet Brady, Kerrie Cullen, Tom Huff, Johnny C. Meier, Frank Orsatti, J. Suzanne Rampe, and Lynn Salvatori), the thriller A Time to Die (1991, with stunts by Red Horton and Joe Murphy), (1991, starring William O. Campbell), (1991, starring Wil Wheaton), (1991), (1991, with stunts by Jeff Cadiente, Matt McColm, and Branscombe Richmond), (1992, with stunts by Sandy Berumen-Justus, Janet Brady, Gary Epper, Tommy J. Huff, Maria Kelly, and Manny Perry), (1992, with stunts by Chuck Borden, George Colucci, B.J. Davis, Chris Doyle, Linda Fetters, Maria Kelly, Gene LeBell, Scott Leva, Dyanna Lynn, Dennis Madalone, J. Suzanne Rampe, and Patricia Tallman), (1992), (1992, with Patricia Tallman), (1992), (1993, with Cary-Hiroyuki, Marjorie Monaghan, Branscombe Richmond, and stunts by Maria Kelly, Jimmy Ortega, and Manny Perry), and (1993).
Orcutt, a former power lifter, specialized in high falls. While filming an episode of the television series Stuntmasters for which she had to jump two hundred feet out of a hot-air balloon in Ireland, her stunt went wrong. Orcutt survived this accident but had a C6-C7 cervical injury which left her quadriplegic. 
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