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Daniel Arrias (born 2 April 1967; age 56) is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts as stunt double for Zachary Quinto in Star Trek. In 2010 Arrias earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture as part of the Star Trek stunt crew. The same year he received a Taurus World Stunt Award nomination in the category Best High Work which he shared with Ilram Choi, Mike Massa, Paul Lacovara, and Anthony Molinari. He also performed stunts in the 2013 video game. For Star Trek Into Darkness, Arrias worked as stunt trainer for Spock actor Zachary Quinto and was featured in the Star Trek Into Darkness (Blu-ray) special feature "Brawl by the Bay".

Arrias is a skilled martial artist who trained under the masters Joon Kim and Jin Ha Choi. He has a black belt in Taekwondo and is als trained in boxing, kickboxing, grappling, gymnastics, precision stunt driving, and certified by the South Bay Fire Academy. He has doubled for actors such as Yancy Arias (in Kingpin and Live Free or Die Hard), Jason Gedrick (in Wanted), Danny Pino (in The Shield and Night Stalker), and Brian Bloom (in Drive).

Arrias has performed in several television series, including General Hospital, She Spies (2003), Passions (2005), Charmed, CSI: NY (2005, with Joel Brooks), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005, with Wallace Langham and Conor O'Farrell), Crossing Jordan (starring Miguel Ferrer), The Agency (starring David Clennon, Ronny Cox, and Daniel Benzali), J.J. Abrams' Alias, ER (2009), Numbers (2006 and 2009, with Anthony Vitale and stunts by Glenn Goldstein), Brannon Braga's Threshold (starring Brent Spiner), The O.C., CSI: Miami (2004 and 2007, with David Lee Smith and Michael Owen), and Entourage.

His feature film performances include The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Seabiscuit (2003, with Michael Ensign, Ed Lauter, Shay Duffin, and stunts by Kevin Derr and Marty Murray), The Rundown (2003, starring The Rock), Hidalgo (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004, with Kirsten Dunst and Donna Murphy), Cursed (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Ultraviolet (2006, with stunt performers Mike Smith, Jennifer Caputo, and Chris Torres), Next (2007, with Jim Beaver and Charles S. Chun), and Live Free or Die Hard (2007, with Tim Russ).

Arrias worked as stunt coordinator for King of the Lost World (2005, with Boni Yanagisawa) and Shapeshifter (2005). He performed stunts in Charlie Wilson's War (2007, with Brian Markinson and Cyia Batten), Iron Man (2008, with Bill Smitrovich and Faran Tahir), Days of Wrath (2008, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and stunts by Mike Gunther, Joey Anaya, and Jimmy Ortega, under stunt coordination of Manny Perry), Tropic Thunder (2008, with stunts by Yoshio Iizuka, Mike Mukatis, Lin Oeding, and Xuyen Valdivia), and Blood and Bone (2008, with Troy Brenna and fight coordinator Chien Funan).

He performed stunts in episodes of Dollhouse (2009, with Rich Cetrone and Scott Workman), Chuck (2009, with Oliver Keller and Gary Wayton), Brannon Braga's FlashForward (2010, with Angela Meryl, Ben Bray, Max Daniels, Marie Fink, and Omid Zader), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011, with Martin De Boer and Paul Lacovara under coordination of Mike Gunther), True Blood (2011, with Craig Baxley, Jr., Charlie Brewer, Mark Wagner, and Kevin Derr), NCIS: Los Angeles (2013), Shameless (2015, with Laurence Rosenthal and coordinated by Eddie Perez), Agent Carter (2015, with Alex Daniels, Kevin Derr, and Tara Macken), Scorpion (2015, with Danny Downey, Derek Graf, and Lauren Mary Kim), Supergirl (2016, with Shauna Duggins, Mark Ginther, Theo Kypri, Marie Fink, and Bethany Levy), Rush Hour (2016, with Simon Rhee, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, and Gregg Sargeant, directed by John Putch), Goliath (2016, with John Thaddeus), Training Day (2017), and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-2017, coordinated by Tanner Gill).

Among his film work are Race to Witch Mountain (2009, with Dwayne Johnson), Angels & Demons (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), The Green Hornet (2011), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Green Lantern (2012), Argo (2012), Jack Reacher (2012), Oblivion (2013), Fighting for Freedom (2013, with Kristanna Loken), and stunt double for George Clooney in Tomorrowland (2015), The 5th Wave (2016, coordinated by Joey Box), Jason Bourne (2016), and The Wall (2017, with Nico Woulard and coordinated by Robert Alonzo).

More recently, Arrias performed stunts in episodes of Future Man (2017, with Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom), Brigh (2017, with Sala Baker, Joey Box, Stacey Carino, John Duff, Rob Mars, David Mattey, Anthony Molinari, Mike Mukatis, Jade Quon, and Douglas Tait), Proud Mary (2018), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018, with Brian Avery, Martin De Boer, Peipei Yuan, and Bethany Levy), and Ad Astra (2019, with Cory DeMeyers, Joey Box, and Jade Quon). He worked as stunt coordinator on Trial by Fire (2018).

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