Hiro Koda

Hiro Koda is a stuntman, stunt coordinator, and director who performed stunts in .
Koda has started his career in film and television in the 1990s. He was one of the regular stuntmen on the television series Power Rangers Zeo (1996-1997, with Mike Gunther) and in the spin-off series Power Rangers Turbo (1997-1998, with Yoshio Iizuka), Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999-2000, with Yoshio Iizuka), and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000-2001, with Yoshio Iizuka). He was the main stunt double for actor in the martial arts action series Martial Law (1998-2000, stunt coordinated by Jeff Cadiente) and worked as stunt coordinator and stunt actor in the short-lived comic adaptation Birds of Prey (2002-2003, starring Dina Meyer and Ian Abercrombie).
He received two Taurus World Stunt Award nominations; in 2002 in the category Best Fire Stunt for his stuntwork in , shared with David Wald and in 2012 in the category Best Fight for his work with Randall Archer in the action comedy The Green Hornet.
Between 2011 and 2013, Koda worked as stunt coordinator on 's with assistant stunt coordinator Henry Kingi, Jr. and co-star George Takei. This work earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or a Variety Program in 2013.
He earned for more Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Stunt Coordination – 2014 for True Blood, 2016 for K.C. Undercover, and 2018 and 2019 for Cobra Kai. In 2020, Koda was part of the stunt crew who earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series for their work on the fantasy series Stranger Things.
Koda has doubled actors Dave Buzzotta in (2000), Tate Donovan in (2000, with Brian Hite), Mark Dacascos in the action thriller Instinct to Kill (2001, coordinated by James Lew and Michael J. Sarna), Jet Li in The One (2001), Donnie Yen in (2002, starring Wesley Snipes and Ron Perlman), Mike Myers in (2002), Tzi Ma in (2004), Eddie Shin and Tim Kang in episodes of (2006 and 2010), and Jay Chou in (2011).
As stunt coordinator or fight coordinator, Koda has worked on projects such as the television series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), Son of the Beach (2000), Phil of the Future (2004), Threshold (2005, starring Brent Spiner), Project Greenlight (2005), Instant Def (2006), Make It or Break It (2009-2010), Wendy (2011), Dog with a Blog (2013-2014), True Blood (2012-2014), K.C. Undercover (2015-2016), Casual (2016), Girl Meets World (2016), Doubt (2017), Outcast (2016-2017), (2017), (2017-2018, starring Scott Bakula and Zoe McLellan), (2018), and Big Little Lies (2019), the television movie Strike Force (1995), (1999), as assistant stunt coordinator on (2003), (2003), the video game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (2003), (2005), (2005, with Craig Baxley, Jr., Johnny C. Meier, Boni Yanagisawa, and Thom Williams), (2006), (2006), (2007), (2007), (2009), (2009), (2010), (2011), (2015), and (2016).
As a stunt performer, he worked on episodes of , , , L.A. Heat (1999, with Todd Bryant), (2001), Fastlane, , , Fear Factor, Fat Actress (2005, starring Kirstie Alley and coordinated by Chris Palermo), (2006), (2006), (2006), (2007), (2008, coordinated by Wally Crowder), (2010, with Brennan Dyson), Blue Bloods (2010), (2010), (2010), Do Not Harm (2013), Revolution (2013, coordinated by Jeff Wolfe), Sons of Anarchy (2008-2013), (2013-2014), (2014, coordinated by Tanner Gill), Ray Donovan (2016, coordinated by Shauna Duggins), The Last Ship (2016-2018), and Black Monday (2019).
Film work include (1997), (1997), (1997), (1998, coordinated by Kane Hodder), (1998), (1998), (1999), (1999), (2000), (2001, with The Rock), (2001), (2002), (2002), (2002), (2003), (2003), (2004), (2004), (2005), (2005), (2005), (2006), (2007), (2007), (2007), (2008), (2009), (2010), (2011), (2012), (2013), (2016), (2017, starring Idris Elba), (2017, starring The Rock), and (2018).
More recently, Koda worked as stunt coordinator on (2018-2020), Stranger Things (2019-2021, starring Winona Ryder), The Outsider (2020), and Ozark (2020) and performed stunts in the adventure To Have and to Hold (2020, stunt coordination by Thom Williams).
Koda is married to fellow stuntwoman Jahnel Curfman.
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Category:Stunt performers
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