Paul Lacovara

Paul Lacovara is a stuntman and stunt coordinator who served under stunt coordinator Joey Box as stunt double for the lead actors Eric Bana and Chris Pine in . He also played an LAPD officer in the second season episode .
In Lacovara 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, Mike Massa, and Anthony Molinari and the second one with Mike Massa.
Lacovara was born in San Luis Obispo, California and specializes in stunt fights and has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He previously doubled Eric Bana in (2007, alongside Darlene Ava Williams and Ransom Gates). 
Lacovara also doubled actor in (2006, featuring Daniel Davis and Christopher Neame; under the stunt coordination of Rick Avery). He again doubled Bale in (2009, featuring Anton Yelchin). 
Other actors Lacovara has doubled include in (2008), in (2007, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Christopher Plummer, and Shawn Crowder and Brian Avery), and in two episodes of (2006-2007). He also doubled guest star Adam Grimes in (2006, co-starring Clint Howard).
Lacovara has performed stunts on , She Spies (with Elle Alexander and Spice Williams), (with Bill Smitrovich and Star Trek co-performer Lin Oeding), (starring Miguel Ferrer), J.J. Abrams' , , Wildfire (starring Nana Visitor), , (with Andrea Robinson), and (with Scott Grimes and Gina Ravarra).
His feature film resume include (2002), (2003, starring Eric Bana), (2005), (2006, with Mark Moses), (2006, with Neal McDonough), and (2007, written by Star Treks Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman).
Among his more recent projects are 's pilot for Life on (2008, starring Colm Meaney and featuring Justin Sundquist), (2009, under stunt coordination of Doug Coleman), (2008, featuring Peggy Roeder; with stunts by Shauna Duggins and Stacey Carino; executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci), and stunt coordination for the comedy The Adventures of Umbweki (2008, with Geneviere Anderson).
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