Martin De Boer

Martin De Boer is a stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked as stunt double for Benedict Cumberbatch on . He also doubled Cumberbatch in (2018, with Chris Hemsworth and Zoe Saldana) and (2019). De Boer was featured in the Star Trek Into Darkness (Blu-ray) special feature "Brawl by the Bay".
Born in the Netherlands, De Boer attended the Hogeschool Rotterdam and earned his BA in Management, Economics, and Law from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in 2008. He trained acting at the Amsterdam Drama School, Ivanna Chubbuck Studios, Lee Strasberg Institute, and with coach Eugene H. Butler.
He had his first credits in the Dutch television series Spoorloos verdwenen (2007) and Goede tijden, slechte tijden (2007) and in the short film Fertilize (2008). He then worked as stunt coordinator on the short projects Kill Joy (2010) and Dilated (2010), both directed and produced by Brian L. Tan.
De Boer was a recurring stunt performer on (2011, co-starring Amy Pietz and stunt coordinated by Mike Gunther) and performed stunts in episodes of Chuck (2010, with Bonita Friedericy, Aaron Lustig, Brett A. Jones, Brian Simpson, Hiro Koda, and Simon Rhee, directed by Robert Duncan McNeill, and stunt coordination by Merritt Yohnka), (2011, with Ron Perlman), Criminal Minds (2011, with Abby Brammell and Ken Lally), and Dr0ne (2012, with Cory DeMeyers).
In 2013, he starred in the television pilot Runner, directed, written and executive produced by Mike Gunther. De Boer also worked as producer on this project as did Justin Lin. He worked as stunt coordinator on the short thriller Stigma (2011), the short comedy Fortune Cookie Magic Tricks (2011, with Jim Lau), the drama Officer Down (2013), Pretty Dead (2013). He also performed stunts in (2011, with stunts by Chris Brewster, Mark Ginther, Jimmy N. Roberts, Eileen Weisinger, Jon Braver, Carrick O'Quinn, and Tim Sitarz), the video game Kinect Star Wars (2012), (2012, with Kofi Yiadom and coordinated by Mike Gunther), (2013, with Dwayne Johnson and directed by Justin Lin), (2013), (2013, with Robert Miano, Massi Furlan, Al Burke, Clint Hummel, Mark DeAlessandro, and Anthony De Longis), and April Apocalypse (2013, with Todd Stashwick, Mark Rolston, and W. Morgan Sheppard and stunt coordination by Theo Kypri).
He doubled actor in (2012, with Tyler Perry and Rachel Nichols) for which he received his first Taurus World Stunt Award nomination in the category Best High Work in 2013. Between 2013 and 2014 he also worked on a number of episodes of the television series Banshee. He doubled Titus Welliver in episodes of Bosch (2014, with Mark Muñoz) and (2014, with Dane Farwell and stunt coordination by Tanner Gill) and in (2014).
De Boer doubled in (2014), Jake McLaughlin in Scorpion (2014, with Lauren Mary Kim), Mark-Paul Gosselaar in (2015), Scott Foley in Scandal (2015, with Shawn Crowder and coordinated by Don Ruffin), in (2015, coordinated by Joel Kramer), Nikola Kent in Ray Donovan (2015, coordinated by Shauna Duggins), and Max Martini in (2015, with Jeremy Fitzgerald).
He received his second and third Taurus World Stunt Award nominations in 2015 in the category Best High Work for his scenes in Transformers: Age of Extinction and in 2016 in the category Hardest Hit for . He worked as stunt coordinator on (2014), as assistant stunt coordinator on (2014) and (2015), and performed stunts in the action film Angel of Death (2013, with Matthias Hues, William De Vital, Lane Leavitt, and Paul Scott), the crime thriller 11 (2014), the short drama It's Not Too Late (2015), and episodes of Aquarius (2015, with Mark Wagner) and The Leftovers (2014-2015, with George Colucci and Nico Woulard).
In 2015, De Boer worked as co-stunt coordinator and stunt double for actor Jeff Hephner on , co-executive produced by Mark A. Altman and stunt coordinated by Mike Massa. He also worked as co-stunt coordinator on (2016, with Michelle Forbes) and as stunt coordinator on the drama In Embryo (2016) and the comedy Fixed (2017). He doubled in two episodes of Hawaii Five-0 (2016, working with Kurt D. Lott), in (2017, working for Mike Massa), and Christopher Showerman in (2017), and performed stunts in the short film Change (2017) and the short musical Trust in Me (2017).
More recent projects as assistant stunt coordinator and stunt performer include (2018, with Brian Avery, Peipei Yuan, and Bethany Levy and produced by J.J. Abrams) on which he also doubled actor , (2018, with Simon Pegg), and (2018, with Tara Macken and Chrissy Weathersby Ball).
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