Michael Muñoz

Michael Muñoz is a stuntman, actor, and stunt coordinator who appeared in several Star Trek productions. He worked as stunt actor, background actor, and stand-in on at least three series and one film. His brothers Mario Muñoz and Mark Muñoz, his mother Nancy Muñoz, and his wife Marisa Muñoz also worked on various Trek projects. Muñoz has been married since 1983. The couple has two children.
For the fifth season episode "The Fight", Muñoz filmed his scenes on Thursday with a makeup call at 5:30 am on Paramount Stage 16 and is listed as "Alien Corner Man" on the call sheet.
Muñoz grew up in Santa Monica, California and joined his brothers for several sport activities on the beach as well as dancing. In the '70s, he started to portray Disney characters in parades and stage plays, such as Mowgli, Mickey Mouse, and Pinocchio. Continuing his skills in different sport activities, including skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing, and motorcycle riding, Muñoz also started to study stunts and acting.
Today, he is one of the stuntmen who work as stunt double for child actors and has also doubled , , and Leslie Jordan.
Muñoz career started in the late '70s with an appearance in The Gong Show (1978) as a tap dancing gorilla, a creature suit performance. In the following years he had guest roles and stunt acting parts in television series such as America's Most Wanted (1992), (1995, starring Daniel Davis), , Home Improvement (1996), , and . He also portrayed the PACMAN in several photo shootings, print-ads, and talk shows such as Fox and Friends (1999), Donny and Marie (2000), and Today (2000).
Film credits include (1997, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton), John Putch's The Boy Who Saved Christmas (1998), (1998, with Megan Gallagher and Stanley Kamel), (1998, starring Jason Isaacs, with James Black, Mark DeAlessandro, Elizabeth Dennehy, Max Daniels and Paul Sklar), the comedy Beach Movie (1998, with stunts by Jeffrey Eith), the comedy My American Vacation (1999), as stunt motion capture performer in PC and the Web (2001, with Amanda McBroom and stunt coordinator Lauro Chartrand), (2002, starring Joe Morton and Kathy Bates, with Casey Biggs, Susanna Thompson,Lisa Banes, Heidi Swedberg, Samantha Smith and Gillian Vigman), and (2002, starring Kirsten Dunst).
Further work includes appearances in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1999 & 2006) and stunt work in The Jersey (2000-02, with Scott Alan Smith), Inhabited (2003, with Megan Gallagher, Malcolm McDowell, Rosalind Chao, and James Otis), (2003), (2003), (2004, with stunts by Sandy Berumen-Justus, Mike Gunther, Mike Justus, Rob Mars, Heidi Moneymaker, and his two brothers), and the television series Over There (2005, starring Brigid Brannagh) and Brannon Braga's (2005, starring Brent Spiner).
Between 2006 and 2007, Muñoz and his wife Marisa worked as producers for the talk show Good Morning Hawaii, hosted by Branscombe Richmond. He doubled Danny DeVito in (2006) and Deck the Halls (2006, under stunt coordination of Charlie Croughwell), and performed stunts in (2007, starring Holly Hunter and Leon Rippy, with Mark L. Taylor), (2007, with Richard Riehle), and .
He doubled again for Danny DeVito in (2008, alongside Mark Wagner) and (2008, with Michael Bofshever and stunt coordinator Bobby C. King), portrayed Tango in Elf Academy (2008, with Diane Salinger), and performed stunts in (2009, starring Ariel Winter, along his brothers under stunt coordinator Cole McKay).
In 2010 he doubled again the stunts for actor Danny DeVito in . Kimberly Shannon Murphy and Peter Epstein also performed stunts in this film.
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Evora delegation.jpg|Evora delegate(uncredited)
File:Alien corner man.jpg|Alien corner man(uncredited)
== Stand-in work ==
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** – stand-in for Marty Davis
** – stand-in for Daniel Asa Henson
** – stand-in for William Bates
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