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Bridgett Riley (born 13 May 1973; age 50) is a stuntwoman, martial artist, and professional kickboxer and boxer who worked as stunt double for Jolene Blalock in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "Marauders" and for Sofia Boutella in Star Trek Beyond.
She filmed her scenes for "Maraduers" in late August 2002 on location in Ventura County, California.
Boxing[]
Hailing from Oakville, Missouri, Riley moved to Southern California while working as airline attendant and starting to learn martial arts. She took part in several competitions, won five kickboxing titles, and held the IFBA's world Bantamweight championship for some time. Known under her fight name "Baby Doll", she started boxing professional in the early 1990s and received the title world champion in 1998. On 4 May 2003 she won her last professional match against Nicole Gallegos. Riley has a record of 15 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw, with 7 wins by knockout and has also been inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame in 1998. [1] [2]
Stunts[]
Riley made her way into the stunts business when she was found by a talent agent during a training session and found herself soon after as a regular stunt performer on the set of the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on which she worked between 1993 and 1995. She doubled actress Thuy Trang as the yellow ranger and was one of the regular "putty patrolers" working for stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt and along with fellow stunt double Scott Leva. In 1995, Riley also worked on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, featuring Mark Ginther, Robert Axelrod, and Merritt Yohnka.
Beside her work on Power Rangers, Riley also appeared in the action film Triple Impact in 1992, played herself in the sports series WMCA Masters (1995-1996), and appeared as a boxer in the video game HBO Boxing (2000).
Further stunt work include Space Truckers (1996, with Mike Hagerty, Eugenie Bondurant, and Scott Leva), The Glimmer Man (1996, stunt coordinated by Dick Ziker), Drive (1997, working with Johnny Martin, Chuck Borden, and Al Goto), High Voltage (1997), Scary Movie 2 (2001, with Woody Bosco, Drew Renkewitz, Suzanne Bianqui, Mark Barrett, Antony Acker, LaFaye Baker, Tim Rigby, Craig Shugart, and Geneviere Anderson), Ghosts of Mars (2001, working with Dana Hee, Marjean Holden, Anita Hart, Tim Trella, and Jimmy Ortega), and The Scorpion King (2002, starring Dwayne Johnson).
Television stunt work includes episodes of Martial Law (2000, with Jeffrey Combs, Neal McDonough, Brian Hite, T.J. Storm, and Gary Ray Stearns), Mandy Moore Show (2000), Walker, Texas Ranger, Dharma & Greg (1997, working with Dana Hee and Erik Stabenau for Al Jones), Angel, V.I.P., House, J.J. Abrams' Alias, and as stunt double for Alyssa Milano on Charmed.
Riley doubled Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004) and Summer Glau in Serenity (2005). In 2004 Riley had a featured stunt part as Hilary Swank's third opponent in Million Dollar Baby (with Lucia Rijker, Benito Martinez, Tom McCleister, Jamison Yang, Miguel Perez, Jude Ciccolella, Spice Williams, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, and Boni Yanagisawa).
Further stunt work include Constantine (2005), The Island (2005), Poseidon (2006), Material Girls (2006), Devil's Den (2006, with Jade Quon), Next (2007), Transformers (2007) and Jumper (2008), and Disaster Movie (2008). Riley also appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006, with Wallace Langham, Jim Beaver, and Scott Workman), Bones (2006, with Troy Brenna, Arne Starr, Diana Lee Inosanto, and Jennifer Caputo), Without a Trace, Scrubs, Heroes, My Name Is Earl, Brannon Braga's FlashForward, NCIS, Castle, and as stunt double for Eliza Dushku in two seasons of Dollhouse (2009-2010).
She worked on the action drama Bare Knuckles (2009, with Spice Williams-Crosby, Alina Andrei, Erica Grace, Dana Dru Evenson, Katie Rowe, and Boni Yanagisawa), as stunt double for Malin Ackerman in Watchmen (2009, along Ed Anders), Stay Cool (2009, doubling Winona Ryder), the comedy The Hangover (2009), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), as stunt double for Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2 (2010), and Takers (2010, with Zoe Saldana, Troy Brenna, Tony Donno, and stunts by Craig Baxley, Jr. and Chrissy Weathersby). She also doubled Elizabeth Reaser, Mia Meastro, Ashley Greene, and Casey Labow in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012).
Later projects are Grimm, Hawaii Five-0, The Saint, and Revenge, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014, with Eurlyne Epper-Woldman, Mark Chadwick, Brian Simpson, and Joshua Croughwell), Hollywood Adventures (2015, with Sandra Lee Gimpel, Lorin McCraley, and Tara Macken, and produced by Justin Lin), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), and Officer Downe (2016, with Sam Witwer, Lauren Mary Kim, and Peipei Yuan).
External links[]
- BabyDollRiley.org – official site
- Bridgett Riley at Wikipedia
- Bridgett Riley at the Internet Movie Database
- Bridgett Riley at StuntPhone.com
- 2010 Interview at ActionFlickChick.com