J. J. Perry

J. J. Perry
Born	1967 (age 56–57)
Nationality	American
Other names	J.J. "Loco" Perry Jordan J. Perry
Occupation(s)	Action director, martial artist, actor, stuntman
Awards	2004 Male Stuntman of the Year Award (World Stunt Awards)

Jordan Andrew "J. J." Perry is an American action director, martial artist, actor, and stuntman.

Career

Perry began practicing martial arts training in 1975, at the age of eight. Because his mother was not able to afford her son's lessons, he cleaned a martial arts school, and received lessons in trade. He began performing stunt work in the late 1980s after leaving the military.

Perry was a fourth-degree black belt in taekwondo by 1993.

He began his acting career when he did stunt work for the character of Johnny Cage in the first Mortal Kombat film. He then played Scorpion, Cyrax, and Noob Saibot in Mortal Kombat Annihilation (Chris Casamassa was supposed to reprise as Scorpion but was working on the film Batman & Robin, though he would return in Conquest), and appeared in the MK: Conquest TV series, this time as Scorpion's main rival Sub-Zero, in addition to doing stuntwork for the main character of Kung Lao. In addition to the Mortal Kombat series, Perry has done stuntwork for various television shows and movies such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Scorpion King, 24, Beowulf and The Town as FBI Swat 2. He was a member of the cast of the 2004 movie Sunland Heat, and part of the stunt team for the 2006 fighting movie Ultraviolet.

Perry shared in the Male Stuntman of the Year Award at the 2004 World Stunt Awards for his work in the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown. He was also voted 2012 Stunt Coordinator of the Year at the short-lived (2010-2012) ActionFest action movie festival (founded by Chuck Norris's stunt double, director, and younger brother Aaron Norris).

In 2022, Perry directed his first feature-length film, Day Shift. In May 2023, Perry was announced to direct a film adaptation of Jay Bonansinga's novel The Killer's Game.

Awards

• 2 Times California State Champion
• 2 Times National Junior Olympian
• Texas State Champion
• 2 Time All Army Champion
• 1990 Olympic Tae Kwon Do Team (Alternate)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1987	They Still Call Me Bruce	Yes	No	James Orr
1992	Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight	Yes	No	Oley Sassone
	Ironheart	Yes	No	Robert Clouse
1995	Fist of the North Star	Yes	No	Tony Randel
	Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back	Yes	No	Phillip Rhee
1996	The Glimmer Man	Yes	No	John Gray
	Santa with Muscles	Yes	No	John Murlowski
1997	Batman & Robin	Yes	No	Joel Schumacher
	Drive	Yes	No	Steve Wang
	Mortal Kombat Annihilation	Yes	No	John R. Leonetti
1998	Blade	Yes	No	Stephen Norrington
1999	Three Kings	Yes	No	David O. Russell
	Best of the Best 4: Without Warning	Yes	No	Phillip Rhee
	Wild Wild West	Yes	No	Barry Sonnenfeld
2001	Planet of the Apes (2001)	Yes	No	Tim Burton
	The One	Yes	No	James Wong
2002	Deuces Wild	Yes	No	Scott Kalvert
	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever	Yes	No	Wych Kaosayananda
2003	Daredevil	Yes	No	Mark Steven Johnson
	Anger Management	Yes	No	Peter Segal
	Basic	Yes	No	John McTiernan
	Johnny	Yes	No	Pawan Kalyan
	The Rundown	Yes	No	Peter Berg
2004	Around the Bend	Yes	No	Jordan Roberts
	Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon	Yes	No	Albert Pyun and Issac Florentine
	Sunland Heat	Yes	No	Halder Gomes
2005	Confessions of an Action Star	Yes	No	Brad Martin
	Constantine	Yes	No	Francis Lawrence
	Domino	Yes	No	Tony Scott
	Black Dawn	Yes	No	Alexander Gruszynski
2006	Alpha Dog	Yes	No	Nick Cassavetes
	Ultraviolet	Yes	No	Kurt Wimmer
	Undisputed II: Last Man Standing	Yes	Yes	Issac Florentine
	Road House 2	Yes	Yes	Scott Ziehl
	Click	Yes	No	Frank Coraci
	Splinter	Yes	No	Michael D. Olmos
2007	Urban Justice	Yes	No	Don E. FauntLeRoy
	The Gene Generation	Yes	No	Pearry Reginald Teo
	Beowulf	Yes	No	Robert Zemeckis
	Adventures of Johnny Tao	Yes	No	Kenn Troum
2008	The Shepherd: Border Patrol	Yes	Yes	Issac Florentine
	Beyond the Ring	Yes	Yes	Gerson Sanginttio
	Iron Man	Yes	No	Jon Favreau
	Pistol Whipped	Yes	No	Roel Reine
2009	The Tournament	Yes	Yes	Scott Mann
	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Yes	No	Gavin Hood
	Bionicle: The Legend Reborn	Yes	No	Mark Baldo
	Blood and Bone	Yes	Yes	Ben Ramsey
	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Yes	No	Shawn Levy
2010	Edge of Darkness	Yes	No	Martin Campbell
	Takers	Yes	No	John Luessenhop
	Paranormal Activity 2	Yes	No	Tod Williams
2011	Cat Run	Yes	Yes	John Stockwell
	The Adventures of Tintin	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
	Warrior	Yes	Yes	Gavin O'Connor
	Haywire	Yes	No	Steven Soderbergh
2012	Underworld: Awakening	Yes	No	Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein
	Gone	Yes	No	Heitor Dhalia
	Get the Gringo	Yes	Yes	Adrian Grunberg
	Safe	Yes	No	Boaz Yakin
	Argo	Yes	No	Ben Affleck
	Bullet to the Head	Yes	Yes	Walter Hill
2013	Gangster Squad	Yes	No	Ruben Fleischer
	After Earth	Yes	No	M. Night Shyamalan
	Oldboy	Yes	Yes	Spike Lee
	Machete Kills	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez
	Ender's Game	Yes	No	Gavin Hood
	Homefront	Yes	No	Gary Fleder
2014	The Expendables 3	Yes	No	Patrick Hughes
	Divergent	Yes	No	Neil Burger
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Yes	No	Michael Bay
2015	Spy	Yes	Yes	Paul Feig
	The Last Witch Hunter	Yes	No	Breck Eisner
2016	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Yes	No	Ang Lee
	Spectral	Yes	Yes	Nic Mathieu
	Mechanic: Resurrection	Yes	No	Dennis Gansel
2017	The Fate of the Furious	Yes	Yes	F. Gary Gray
	The Dark Tower	Yes	Yes	Nikolaj Arcel
	John Wick Chapter 2	Yes	No	Chad Stahelski
2018	Skyscraper	No	Yes	Rawson Marshall Thurber
2019	Gemini Man	Yes	No	Ang Lee
2020	Bloodshot	Yes	Yes	David S.F. Wilson
	Beast Mode	Yes	Yes	Chris W. Freeman and Spain Willingham
2021	F9	Yes	Yes	Justin Lin
2022	Samaritan	Yes	Yes	Julius Avery
	Avatar: The Way of Water	Yes	No	James Cameron
2023	Murder Mystery 2	No	Yes	Jeremy Garelick
	Blue Beetle	No	Yes	Angel Manuel Soto

Director

• Day Shift (2022)
• The Killer's Game (2024)
• Afterburn (TBA)

Stunt double

Year	Title	Director	Artist
2005	Be Cool	F. Gary Gray	John Travolta
	XXX: State of the Union	Lee Tamahori	Barry Sigismondi
	Serenity	Joss Whedon	Nathan Fillion
	Today You Die	Don E. FauntLeRoy	Jamie McShane
2006	The Hard Easy	Ari Ryan	David Boreanaz
2013	Homefront	Gary Fleder	Clancy Brown

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Full Impact	Louis's Street Fighter
1996	Bloodsport III	J. J. Tucker
1997	Mortal Kombat Annihilation	Cyrax / Scorpion / Noob Saibot / Tarkatan (Baraka)
1998	Deadly Ransom	Tony
	Enter the Eagles	Ben
2001	The Rage Within	Jay
	The Silent Force	Rookie
2003	Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision	Officer
2004	Spartan	Bodyguard
	Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon	Boxing referee
	Sunland Heat	Matthews
2005	Today You Die	Thug
2007	Adventures of Johnny Tao	Lido
2008	The Shepherd: Border Patrol	Illegal immigrant
2009	Tea and Remembrance	Bar patron	Short film
	The Tournament	Montoya
2011	Haywire	Max
2012	Get the Gringo	Reginald T. Barnes

Other credits

Year	Title	Director	Role
2008	Beyond the Ring	Gerson Sanginttio	Fight director
2009	Blood and Bone	Ben Ramsey	Martial arts director
2010	The Experiment	Paul T. Scheuring	Action coordinator
2011	Warrior	Gavin O'Connor	Walla group
2012	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	Stunt performer
2013	Olympus Has Fallen	Antoine Fuqua	Fight performer
2014	John Wick	Chad Stahelski and David Lietch	Stunt player

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Role
1994	Vanishing Son I	Stunts
	CyberTracker
	Vanishing Son II
	Vanishing Son III
	Vanishing Son IV
2005	The Poseidon Adventure	Stunt performer
	Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire	Stunts
2007	Sharpshooter	Stunt performer
	All I Want for Christmas	Livestock trainer
2017	The Saint	Stunt coordinator

TV series

Stunts

Year	Title	Notes
1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	100 episodes
1995	WMAC Masters	Stunt ninja
1996	Nash Bridges
1998	Charmed
1998–99	Mortal Kombat: Conquest	Stunt actor and double for Alexander Walters (2 episodes)
1999	Angel
	V.I.P.	Episode "The Quick and the Dead"
2001	Crossing Jordan
2002	V.I.P.	Episode "48½ Hours"
	She Spies
	Firefly
	Birds of Prey
	The Chang Family Saves the World	Unaired pilot
2006	Fallen	Miniseries
2014	True Blood	Episode "Jesus Gonna Be Here"

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Duckman	Ninja	Episode "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W."
1998–99	Mortal Kombat: Conquest	Sub-Zero
2001	Fear Factor	Himself
2006	CSI: NY	Keith Gale	Episode "Heroes"

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	American Misfits	Fight coordinator
2017	S.W.A.T.	Stunt coordinator	Episode "Pilot"
2019	Stumptown		Episode "Forget It Dex, It's Stumptown"
2021	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	Stunt performer	Episode "The Star-Spangled Man"
	Shadow and Bone	Stunt coordinator, stunt director: second unit and second unit director	Episode "A Searing Burst of Light"

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Mortal Kombat: Federation of Martial Arts	Sub-Zero	9 episodes
2009	Angel of Death	—	Stunts

External links

• [1]
• J. J. Perry at IMDb
• "J.J. Perry Interview" Archived 2009-05-14 at the Wayback Machine