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Debbie Evans(I)

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Debbie Evans
Debbie Evans Stuntwoman

Debbie Evans is considered one of Hollywood's top stunt women. The writing was on the wall from the age of six when she started riding motorcycles in her hometown of Lakewood, California. By the age of nine she started competing in the sport of motorcycle trials. By 1976, she became the first woman to reach the rank of expert, successfully competing against the men. She was considered the best female observed trials rider in the United States, earning factory-backed sponsorship from Yamaha.

Her entertainment roots began with halftime shows at various stadium events, which included her famous headstand on the seat of a balancing motorcycle. Not one to shy away from the challenge of a male-dominated field, she accepted the offer to do a motorcycle jump over a 30-foot ravine for the movie Deathsport. This job would be the beginning a stunt career that would span decades, and garner her accolades and awards for future work to come. Shortly after her path started, things exploded for Debbie when she tied for second overall in the 1978 CBS Stunt Competition as the only female competitor, and won first place in the car race, beating out all of the top male stunt drivers. She has since been featured in Reader's Digest, Glamour Magazine, Cycle World, Dirt Bike, and on ESPN, The Montel Williams Show, Women's Entertainment Television, and Entertainment Tonight, just to name a few.

Debbie honed all aspects of her physical ability, performing just about every stunt there is, but never steering too far from her first love...motorcycles and cars! In 2002, Debbie won two Taurus World Stunt Awards for doubling Michelle Rodriguez in The Fast and the Furious, and has continued with the franchise, and actress, in the subsequent films. Debbie has won 7 Taurus World Stunts Awards, one of the highest acknowledgements in her industry. She has also been inducted into the American Motorcyclist (AMA) Hall of Fame, The Hollywood Stuntman's Hall of Fame, along with many other awards and nominations. Debbie has been had an amazing career with many memorable pieces of work. A few of her most notable sequences were for Carrie Anne Moss, in Matrix Reloaded where she drove a Cadillac CTS and rode a Ducati 996 in the famous freeway chase sequence. Also doubling for Michelle Rodriguez in the first Fast and Furious driving a car under a semi-truck, crashing and flipping it off the embankment into the field below. Debbie worked on many other Fast and Furious movies in all the female driving sequences Fast films 1,2,3,6,7, and 8. She has doubled for many of the leading ladies in Hollywood and was the stunt driving double for Angelina Jolie in Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Taking Lives.
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Debbie Evans at 2002 Taurus World Stunt Awards.
Debbie Evans

Known for

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded
7.2
  • Stunts(Carrie-Anne Moss, uncredited)
  • 2003
Rob Cohen, Vin Diesel, David Ayer, Jordana Brewster, Chad Lindberg, Michelle Rodriguez, Johnny Strong, Gary Scott Thompson, and Paul Walker in The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Fast and the Furious
6.8
  • Stunts
  • 2001
Brandon Routh in Superman Returns (2006)
Superman Returns
6.1
  • Stunts(Parker Posey)
  • 2006
Queen Latifah, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, Jimmy Fallon, Ingrid Vandebosch, and Gisele Bündchen in Taxi (2004)
Taxi
4.5
  • Stunts(BMWs)
  • 2004

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Stunts

  • Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling in The Gray Man (2022)
    The Gray Man
  • Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, Robert Pattinson, and Zoë Kravitz in The Batman (2022)
    The Batman
  • Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Eréndira Ibarra, Jessica Henwick, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
    The Matrix Resurrections
  • Charlize Theron, Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Ludacris, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, and Nathalie Emmanuel in F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
    F9: The Fast Saga
  • Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Mackenzie Davis in Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
    Terminator: Dark Fate
  • Chadwick Boseman in 21 Bridges (2019)
    21 Bridges
    • (uncredited)
  • Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, and Jeffrey Wright in The Laundromat (2019)
    The Laundromat
  • Ballers (2015)
    Ballers
  • Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in Booksmart (2019)
    Booksmart
  • Skylan Brooks, Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, and Miya Cech in The Darkest Minds (2018)
    The Darkest Minds
    • (as Debbie Evans-Leavitt)
  • Colman Domingo and Lennie James in Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
    Fear the Walking Dead
  • Lilith Singson in Summerland (2017)
    Summerland
  • Ryan Hansen and Samira Wiley in Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017)
    Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
    • (uncredited)
  • Heaven's Gate
  • James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, Colin Hanks, Thomas Sadoski, Betsy Brandt, Zoe Lister-Jones, Dan Bakkedahl, Angelique Cabral, Holly J. Barrett, Giselle Eisenberg, and Niall Cunningham in Life in Pieces (2015)
    Life in Pieces

Actress

  • Kellie Martin in Mystery Woman (2003)
    Mystery Woman
  • The Practice (1997)
    The Practice
  • John Travolta, Don Cheadle, Halle Berry, and Hugh Jackman in Swordfish (2001)
    Swordfish
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • The Lookalike (1990)
    The Lookalike
  • Midnight Ride (1990)
    Midnight Ride
  • Why Me? (1990)
    Why Me?
  • 14 Going on 30 (1988)
    14 Going on 30
  • Say Yes (1986)
    Say Yes
  • Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox in CHiPs (1977)
    CHiPs
  • Paul Bartel, P.J. Soles, Mary Woronov, Rob Bottin, Daniel Davies, Clint Howard, Loren Lester, Dick Miller, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Marky Ramone, Ramones, Vincent Van Patten, Dey Young, and Brian Markovitz in Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
    Rock 'n' Roll High School
    • (uncredited)
  • The Moon Over the Alley (1976)
    The Moon Over the Alley

Producer

  • A Different Direction (2016)
    A Different Direction

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    • Lakewood, California, USA
    • Lane Leavitt1979 - present (3 children)
  • Music video: Stunt driver for Ingrid Anderson in the Chicago music video "Stay the Night".
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    Doubled for Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix Reloaded (2003).

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