Sharlene Royer

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Sharlene Royer (born 15 February) is a stuntwoman and stunt actress who worked as stunt double for Zoe Saldana in Star Trek Beyond. Royer is engaged to fellow stunt performer and stunt coordinator Lauro Chartrand.

Royer started to train professional dance at the age of 7. She is classically trained in ballet, jazz and tap dance by Louise Lapierre and Eddie Toussaint and performed for four years with La Troupe des Carcans. She then worked as model for several magazines, print ads, and runways and started her acting career in the 1990s after she attended the College Jean-de-Brébeuf where she graduated in Art and Communications.

In 1999 she was discovered by stunt coordinator Alan Oliney who trained her in basic stunts, car work, and cable work. She was also trained by Stephane Lefebvre and trained martial arts and stage combat at the Yoseikan Budo Centre under Marc Beaudry and with Guillermo Grispo. Early in her career, Royer worked as photo double and stand-in for Vanessa Williams on the television movies The Courage to Love (2000) and A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000, with Brian McNamara) and for Pam Grier on the crime drama Wilder (2000, with Rick Avery).

Acting

Royer started her acting career with supporting roles in episodes of the television series The Hunger (2000), Cauchemar d'amour (2001), Lance et compte – Nouvelle génération (2002), Bliss (2002), Les Bougon: C'est aussi ça la vie (2004), and Le 7e round (2006). She also appeared in the crime drama Des chiens dans la neige (2002), the comedy Comment conquérir l'Amérique (2004), the short film The Locrian Mode (2005), the television comedy Miss Météo (2005), and the action film Good Cop Bad Cop (2006).

Further acting work include Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident (2007), Stuck (2007, with Jeffrey Combs), I'm Not There (2007, with Bruce Greenwood), Virginie (2008), Chez Jules (2008), and Bye-Bye (2008), the family movie Noémie: Le secret (2009), the comedy Filière 13 (2010), and the television series lol:-) (2011), Bullet in the Face (2012, with Max Williams), True Justice (2012, with Ed Anders), and 30 Vies (2013).

More recently she appeared in Afflicted (2013), Cartels (2015, with Lauro Chartrand), and in the television series Ghost Unit (2015, directed by Lauro Chartrand).

Stunts

One of her first credited stuntwork was doubling actress Monica Arnold in Love Song in 2000 followed by stuntwork in Largo Winch (2001), Heist (2001), the crime thriller Riders (2002, with Steven Berkoff and Tom Huff), and The Sum of All Fears (2002, with James Cromwell, Ken Jenkins, Bruce McGill, Jophery C. Brown, John Stoneham, Jr., and Tom McComas).

She doubled Rosario Dawson in The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002, with Alissa and Heidi Kramer and coordinated by Alan Oliney) and Halle Berry in Gothika (2003, with John Carroll Lynch and Kym Washington). Further stuntwork include The Day After Tomorrow (2004), King's Ransom (2005, with Roger R. Cross and Kym Washington), Stuck (2007, coordinated by John Stoneham, Jr.), Death Race (2008, with Gary Baxley, Gilbert Combs, Erik Cord, and Spiro Razatos, and coordinated by Andy Gill), Red 2 (2013, with Neal McDonough, Steven Berkoff and Titus Welliver), episodes of Beauty & the Beast (2012) and Nikita (2013, with Melinda Clarke), Brick Mansions (2014), and as stunt double for Halle Berry in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, and Kelsey Grammer, executive produced by Stan Lee, and stunts by Mark Chadwick and Daniel Stevens).

For her work on X-Men: Days of Future Past, Royer received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2015.

She laterperformed stunts in episodes of Strange Empire (2014), Minority Report (2015), and The X-Files (2016, working with Lauro Chartrand), doubled Halle Berry in Extant (2015, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Maury Sterling and coordinated by Henry Kingi, Jr.) and in Kidnap (2016, with stunts by Hunter Baxley, Nick Hermz, Bethany Levy, and Eddie Mathews), Paula Patton in Warcraft (2016, with Clancy Brown), and Ciara Renée as Hawkgirl in episodes of The Flash (2015, with Neal McDonough), Arrow (2015), and Legends of Tomorrow (2016, starring Victor Garber).

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