stunt double
noun
: a person who takes an actor's place during the filming of stunts and dangerous scenes for a movie or TV show
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LaBella, lead stunt double for actress Ella Hunt, filed the suit on May 25 in Los Angeles County.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 May 2025
In King Vidor’s Show People (1928), the delightful Marion Davies sends up Hollywood — and her own persona — with the assurance that audiences understood the no-longer-inside jokes, spotted the cameos, and laughed at how the feckless leading man takes credit for the exploits of his stunt double.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
Just based on the color scheme, the person on the left is almost certainly either Milly Alcock dressed as Supergirl or her stunt double (the video caption identifies her as the latter).
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Those skills served him well in his early days as a Hong Kong stuntman, which eventually landed him a gig as an extra and stunt double on Bruce Lee's 1972 film, Fist of Fury.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 May 2025
In King Vidor’s Show People (1928), the delightful Marion Davies sends up Hollywood — and her own persona — with the assurance that audiences understood the no-longer-inside jokes, spotted the cameos, and laughed at how the feckless leading man takes credit for the exploits of his stunt double.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
Just based on the color scheme, the person on the left is almost certainly either Milly Alcock dressed as Supergirl or her stunt double (the video caption identifies her as the latter).
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Those skills served him well in his early days as a Hong Kong stuntman, which eventually landed him a gig as an extra and stunt double on Bruce Lee's 1972 film, Fist of Fury.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stunt double
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“Stunt double.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stunt%20double. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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