Bridgett Riley

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Bridgett Riley (born May 13, 1973 in Oakville , Missouri ) is an American stunt woman , actress and former boxer .

Life

Bridgett Riley was born on May 13, 1973 in Oakville, Missouri. She has three brothers. As a child she started practicing karate before she tried kickboxing . Her father, who supported her in the project to become a professional kickboxer, fell ill with cancer and died in May 1993 at the age of 63.

Career

Boxing

As a professional kickboxer, Riley was able to win three big titles and finished them with a statistic of 26-2-0. Bridgett Riley made her bantamweight boxing debut on April 8, 1994 at the Hilton Hotel in Laughlin , Nevada . Riley got her fight name "Baby Doll" from her first kickboxing trainer. On February 15, 1998, Riley was able to win the IFBA bantamweight title. On March 13, 1999, she played the preliminary fight at Madison Square Garden , with Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield faced in a title union fight in the main fight . Their promoter was Don King . She finished her boxing career on May 4, 2003 with a statistic of 15-3-0.

Stunt woman

During her boxing career, Riley also worked as a stunt double. So she performed her first stunts in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger . Then she was the stunt double but was also used in fight scenes of the yellow Power Ranger in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and in the film Power Rangers - The film , which has nothing to do with the plot of the series. This was followed by further employment as a stunt woman for films such as Ghosts of Mars , Million Dollar Baby , The Island , Transformers and Watchmen - The Guardians .

In addition to her work as a stunt woman, she was also responsible for the motion capture process for the films Catwoman and Constantine . In 2010 she was Scarlett Johansson's stunt double in the Marvel film adaptation of Iron Man 2 , as well as Amanda Seyfried in Gone . For the novel adaptation Till the End of the Night , she was used as a stunt double for the actresses Ashley Greene , Elizabeth Reaser , Casey LaBow and Mía Maestro in both parts.

actress

While Riley performed the stunts of the yellow Power Rangers in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers , she slipped into the costume of the monster patrol, the opponents of the Power Rangers, in 92 episodes from 1993 to 1995. Subsequently, she appeared in the martial arts program WMAC Masters , in eleven episodes under her battle name Baby Doll. After guest appearances in series such as Bones and CSI: Vegas , she stood in front of the camera in the short film Fetch in 2007 and in the boxing film Bare Knuckle in 2012 , which was recognized as best film at the Atlantic City Cinefest. In the third part of the new Star Trek edition, published in 2016 , she was used as a stunt double by Sofia Boutella .

Filmography (selection)

Stunt woman

actress

  • 1993–1995: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV series, 92 episodes)
  • 1995–1996: WMAC Masters (TV series, eleven episodes)
  • 2006: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, episode 7x04 Happy Slapping ' )
  • 2006: Bones ( Bones , TV series, episode 2x08 Two fates in the sand )
  • 2007: Fetch (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bridgett Riley. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bridgett Riley Biography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 14, 2017 ; accessed on November 15, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wban.org
  3. ^ A b Bridgett Riley - Interview. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Thie "Baby Doll" Walks, Talks, and Dishes Out Punishment. Black Belt, September 1995, accessed November 15, 2017 .
  5. ^ Riley Spends Her Life in the Ring. Los Angeles Times , March 8, 1995, accessed November 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Bridgett Riley. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
  7. ^ Catwoman & Constantine Special Effects Work. January 31, 2004, accessed November 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Riley, Bridgett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riley, Bridget; Baby Doll (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American stunt woman and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakville (Missouri) , Missouri , United States