Random Actors Who Actually Do Their Own Stunts (20 items)

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  (#1) Angelina Jolie

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  Angelina Jolie frequently does her own stunts. She actually earned a scar on her head while performing what she called a "ridiculously easy stunt" for the 2010 film Salt.
  
  
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  (#2) Cameron Diaz

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  Cameron Diaz did many of her own stunts on the 2010 action-comedy Knight and Day.
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  (#3) Tom Cruise

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  Tom Cruise reliably does many of the most intense stunts in modern blockbusters. Some of his most impressive stunt work comes from the Mission: Impossible series, which has found him climbing the tallest building in the world and clinging to the outside of a plane during takeoff.
  
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  (#4) Kristen Stewart

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  Kristen Stewart reportedly did plenty of stunts on Snow White and the Huntsman, for which she not only had to learn to ride horses, but also to perform dangerous stunts on horseback.
  
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  (#5) Arnold Schwarzenegger

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger did quite a few of his own stunts before his stint in politics. Since returning to acting, Schwarzenegger has performed the stunts he could safely execute on more recent projects, as well.
  
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  (#6) Harrison Ford

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  Harrison Ford performed a surprising number of his own stunts while filming the Indiana Jones series, but he left the more dangerous pieces to professional stuntmen, most notably the legendary Vic Armstrong.
  
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  (#7) Keanu Reeves

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  Keanu Reeves is known for doing his own stunts, particularly as Neo in The Matrix. In 2014, he admitted that nightly ice baths were the secret to his stunt success.
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  (#8) Matt Damon

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  Matt Damon performed all manner of stunts for the Bourne series, and reportedly also did dangerous work on war films like Saving Private Ryan and Courage Under Fire.
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  (#9) Sylvester Stallone

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  Sylvester Stallone has injured himself quite a few times doing his own stunt work. While filming The Expendables, he actually broke his neck, sustaining a hairline fracture during a fight scene with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
  
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  (#10) Christian Bale

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  Christian Bale is a method actor through and through. He did many of his own stunts in the Dark Knight franchise, including standing on a ledge 110 stories up in full Batman gear.
  
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  (#11) Daniel Craig

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  Daniel Craig does some of his own stunts when he is Bond, James Bond, though the most dangerous work is left to the professional stuntmen.
  
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  (#12) Gina Carano

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  Gina Carano impressed fans and producers with her stunt work in the 2011 spy thriller Haywire, a project that was actually conceived around the MMA fighter.
  
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  (#13) Viggo Mortensen

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  Viggo Mortensen performed the majority of his own stunts in battle sequences throughout the Lord of the Rings series, chipping teeth and breaking bones in the process.
  
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  (#14) Burt Reynolds

  • Dec. at 82 (1936 - 2018)

  An actor known for his macho physicality, Burt Reynolds frequently did his own stunts. In 2012, he told Variety, “Sometimes the simplest stunt can be the most dangerous. Everyone’s in a hurry on a movie set and faster is better, but you can’t rush stunts. You’ve got to take your time and eyeball them and really get a good sense that everyone can come out the other end safely.”
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  (#15) Steve McQueen

  • Dec. at 50 (1930-1980)

  Steve McQueen did all of his own motorcycle stunts in The Great Escape, except for the climactic 60-foot jump over a fence.
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  (#16) Jason Statham

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  Jason Statham is known for doing his own stunts. He almost died while filming The Expendables 3 after the brakes on a speeding truck failed, unexpectedly sending him into the Black Sea.
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  (#17) Jackie Chan

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  Jackie Chan made himself an international cinema legend with his daring and sometimes horrifyingly dangerous stunt work. In fact, most of his movies are based around his amazing ability to do his own stunts.
  
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  (#18) Buster Keaton

  • Dec. at 71 (1895-1966)

  Buster Keaton may not have been able to speak during the silent film era, but he was able to do his own stunts, and his innovative, daring work has influenced pretty much all subsequent stunts on film.
  
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  (#19) Burt Lancaster

  • Dec. at 81 (1913-1994)

  Burt Lancaster was a former circus acrobat so it wasn't a stretch that he did many of his own stunts for the 1956 film Trapeze, as well as The Flame and Arrow and The Crimson Pirate in 1950 and 1952.
  
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  (#20) Douglas Fairbanks

  • Dec. at 56 (1883-1939)

  Douglas Fairbanks performed many of his own stunts in The Thief of Baghdad, as well as  The Mark of Zorro and Robin Hood, in which he famously posed as a stuntman to run up the chain of a drawbridge as it rose.
  

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