Robert Alonzo

Robert Alonzo is a stuntman, martial artist and stunt coordinator who worked as 2nd Unit Stunt Coordinator and Fight Choreographer for Stunt Coordinator Joey Box on . Alonzo created the Romulan fight moves as well as the fight scene on the drill platform.
His work on Star Trek earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in which he shared with Joey Box and stunt performers Daniel Arrias, Sala Baker, Steve Blalock, Ben Bray, Mark Chadwick, Ilram Choi, Zach Duhame, Peter Epstein, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Terry Jackson, Craig Jensen, Paul Lacovara, Rob Mars, Mike Massa, Heidi Moneymaker, Mike Mukatis, Courtney Munch, Kimberly Murphy, Chris Palermo, Jim Palmer, Eddie Perez, Dan Plum, Damion Poitier, Susan Purkhiser, Mike Snyder, Dennis Scott, Chris Torres, Christina Weathersby, Webster Whinery, Jr., and Marcus Young.
== Career ==
=== Early career ===
Alonzo was born in Manila, Philippines and is a trained martial artist. He has started his career in film and television in the late 1990s and worked as stand-in and stunt double for Phillip Rhee on (1998, featuring Jessica Collins, Monty Rex Perlin, Rich Cetrone, Mike Mukatis, J.J. Perry, Scott Leva, Carol Daniels, and [[Jane Austin])].
=== Television ===
Alonzo was one of the regular stunt performers in the television series Beetleborgs Metallix between 1997 and 1998. Further television stunt work includes episodes of , , , The Huntress, , , J.J. Abrams' , , , and .
In 2000, he worked as fight choreographer and utility stunt performer on the television movie Monsignor Martinez followed by stunt acting appearances on (2001, coordinated by Jeff Cadiente and with Darlene Ava Williams and Brian Hite), (2002, with Albert Hall, Alicia Coppola, Jack Shearer, and Edward Conna), (2002, coordinated by Noon Orsatti), The Bold and the Beautiful (2003), (2003, with Damion Poitier and Mike Massa), She Spies (2002-04), (2002-04, coordinated by Merritt Yohnka), (2004), , , 10-8: Officers on Duty}}, , The Comeback, and Threshold (2005, starring Brent Spiner).
Further television work includes the drama 13 Graves (2006, with Ian Eyre, Mike Gunther, and Carrick O'Quinn), (2006), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2006), In Justice (2006, coordinated by Peewee Piemonte), (2006, with Bertila Damas, John Kassir, and Carlos LaCamara), (2006), (2006, with Scott Workman), Watch Over Me (2006), (2008, starring Paul Guilfoyle, Wallace Langham and Liz Vassey, with Arne Starr, Sam Witwer and Caryn Mower), The Middleman (2008), (2008, with Greg Grunberg, Zachary Quinto, Cristine Rose, Malcolm McDowell, and Nancy Thurston) for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series in 2009, (2006-08), (2009, coordinated by Al Goto), (2009-10, coordinated by R.A. Rondell and with Brian Avery, Alex Daniels, Brennan Dyson, Jeremy Fitzgerald, and Kevin Derr), (2009-10, with Henry Kingi, Jr., Jennifer Caputo, Stacey Carino, Jade Quon, and John Dixon), (2008 & 2011), Dark Blue (2010, coordinated by Craig Baxley, Jr.), and as fight coordinator on J.J. Abrams' (2010, coordinated by Joey Box).
Alonzo later worked as stunt coordinator on an episode of (2015) and performed stunts in two episodes of the series (2015, coordinated by Rob Mars) as well as in (2015), (2015, starring Alfre Woodard), and (2015, with Neal McDonough, John Glover, John Stoneham, Jr., and Kimberly Shannon Murphy).
===Film===
Following stunt work in the action film Shogun Cop (1999, with William Utay and Bobby C. King), Alonzo worked as stunt coordinator, stunt actor and action director on the action film Gung Fu: The New Dragon (2000). He also worked as action choreographer and stunt actor on the fantasy drama Epoch of Lotus (2000, with T.J. Storm) and as fight choreographer on (2002, with William Shatner) and on (2003, with stunts by Daniel Arrias and Eddie Perez), for which he also served as stunt double and assistant stunt coordinator.
Further stunt work includes (2001), (2001), (2002), (2002), (2002, starring The Rock), as 's stunt double in (2003, with Gabrielle Union and Michael Jace), (2003, starring Kristanna Loken), (2004, starring Kirsten Dunst, with Donna Murphy), (2005), and (2006) and (2007, with Tim Russ).
In 2005, Alonzo was the stunt coordinator for , starring Jeff Pruitt's wife and with Terrence Beasor, and fellow Star Trek stunt performers Xuyen Valdivia, Jade Quon, and Eddie Perez. He was the assistant stunt coordinator on (2006, with Jennifer Caputo, Mike Smith, and Chris Torres), and assistant fight choreographer on J.J. Abrams' (2006, with Simon Pegg).
Alonzo was part of the stunt ensemble which received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for their work on (2007) and (2008). Among his other screen credits as stuntman are (2007), as stunt double for in (2007), (2008, starring John Cho), and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011), (2008), (2009), (2009), (2009), (2009), (2009, with Rachel Nichols), (2009), The Last Airbender (2010), (2011), (2011), and (2011), for which he received another Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2012.
As fight choreographer, Alonzo created action sequences for , , , and in (2010), (2010), (2011), and (2012). Beside performing in video games as mo-cap stunt actor such as Silver Samurai in , Ethan Hunt in and in (2011), Alonzo worked as stunt coordinator on (2013).
More recently, Alonzo was the fight choreographer for Toxin (2015, stunts by Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, Zach Duhame, and Daniel Arrias), the supervising stunt coordinator on (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss), stunt coordinator on (2015, with stunts by Trace Cheramie, Ilram Choi, and Joey Box), and stunt performer in (2015, with Chris Hemsworth), (2015, coordinated by Lin Oeding), (2015, with Chuck Borden), and (2016, coordinated by Joey Box).
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Category:Stunt department
Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners