Mark Hicks

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Mark Hicks (born 31 May 1961; age 64) is a stuntman who worked as stunt double for Anthony Montgomery in the Star Trek: Enterprise third season episode "Harbinger". He received no credit for this appearance. [1]

Hicks worked as stunt double for Chris Tucker on Money Talks (1997, coordinated by Buddy Joe Hooker), Rush Hour (1998), and Rush Hour 2 (2001), Mekhi Phifer on Impostor (2001), Ice Cube on XXX: State of the Union (2005, coordinated by R.A. Rondell) and Ride Along (2014, coordinated by Noon Orsatti), Tyrese Gibson on 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Transformers (2007, coordinated by Kenny Bates), Common on Terminator Salvation (2009), Cuba Gooding, Jr. on One in the Chamber (2012), Giancarlo Esposito in several episodes of Revolution (2013, coordinated by Jeff Wolfe), and Charles Michael Davis in The Originals (2013-14).

He performed stunts in Split Decisions (1988, with George P. Wilbur and Joseph Michael Roth), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995, coordinated by Alan Oliney), Batman Forever (1995), Spawn (1997), The Mod Squad (1999), Wild Wild West (1999), From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000), Swordfish (2001), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Serenity (2005), Hatchet (2006, coordination by Kane Hodder), DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), the thriller Lie to Me (2008), The Expendables (2010), Fast Five (2011), Selma (2014), San Andreas (2015, starring The Rock), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015).

In 2002, Hicks received six Taurus World Stunt Award nominations. One for his work on Swordfish and five for his work as stunt double for Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2. He won three of the awards for Rush Hour 2 in the categories Best Specialty Stunt, Best High Work, and Best Fight. [2]

Hicks also performed stunts in episodes of Profiler (1996), Snoops (1999), ER (2000), Angel (2000-03), The Shield (2003, coordinated by Merritt Yohnka), Alias (2001-05, coordinated by Shauna Duggins), Without a Trace (2006), Crossing Jordan (2006), Day Break (2006-07), Boston Legal (2007, starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois, with John Larroquette, Steven Culp, Henry Gibson and Tony Todd), Eli Stone (2008), Numbers (2008, coordinated by Peewee Piemonte), Cold Case (2009-10), Brannon Braga's FlashForward (2010), Grey's Anatomy (2010), The Mentalist (2012, coordinated by Kevin Derr), CSI: NY (2013), Finding Carter (2014, coordinated by Gerard G. Williams), Banshee (2015), and 24: Legacy (2017, coordinated by Eric Norris).

Hicks later worked as stunt coordinator on Tales (2017), The Quad (2017, starring Sean Blakemore), Saints & Sinners (2016-17), and Superstition (2017), When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story (2017), and the short drama Daddy's Home (2018), doubled Peter Parros in The Haves and the Have Nots (2017), Michael Kenneth Williams in Hap and Leonard (2016-17), and Ludacris in The Fate of the Furious (2017, coordinated by J.J. Perry), and performed stunts in Six (2017, with Max Daniels and Oliver Keller), If Loving You Is Wrong (2017, written and directed by Tyler Perry, starring Brenda Bakke, and stunts by Thom Williams and Mark DeAlessandro), and Mr. Mercedes (2017, coordinated by Mike Gunther), the drama Bolden (2017, coordinated by Jeff Wolfe), Krystal (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018, coordinated by James Lew), and Galveston (2018).

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