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Mike Massa (born 8 February 1968; age 56) is a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, and director who served as Chris Pine's main stunt double in Star Trek. In 2010 Massa earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture as part of the Star Trek stunt crew. The same year he received two Taurus World Stunt Award nominations in the categories Best High Work and Best Specialty Stunt. He shared the first nomination with Daniel Arrias, Ilram Choi, Anthony Molinari, and Paul Lacovara and the second one with Paul Lacovara. Massa also doubled Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Darkness, under stunt coordination by John Robotham.

Born as Michael John Massa in Frankfurt, West Germany, he is probably best known as stunt coordinator and main stunt double for lead actor David Boreanaz in Angel (1999-2004) on which he worked with Trek stunt performers Mike Gunther, Scott Workman, Spiro Razatos, Mike Mukatis, and Christopher Leps.

Massa has worked in the stunt business since the early '90s, with performances in the television series America's Most Wanted, Superboy, Super Force, seaQuest DSV, Thunder in Paradise, Pointman, V.I.P., Seven Days (1998, with Norman Lloyd, Alan Scarfe, and stunts by Pat Romano, Scott Workman, and Michael Owen), and Roswell (starring William Sadler). His film credits in the '90s include Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996, stunt coordinated by Glenn R. Wilder), The Substitute (1996), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, with stunts by Don Pulford, Janet Brady, Mark Chadwick, Marjean Holden, and Michelle Sebek), Starship Troopers (1997, with Dina Meyer, Clancy Brown, and Brenda Strong), and Magnolia (1999).

The following years Massa doubled for Edward Burns in 15 Minutes (2001) and Confidence (2003), Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor (2001), Hugo Weaving in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), Josh Hartnett in Hollywood Homicide (2003), Brandon Routh in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), and Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Television work includes Crossing Jordan, Firefly, Miracles, General Hospital, Bones (2005, with Alicia Coppola, Kate McNeil, and Patti Yasutake), 24 (2006, with Glenn Morshower, Peter Weller, and stunts by Jeff Cadiente and Erik Stabenau), ER (2006, with Scott Grimes, Leland Orser, and Maury Sterling), Alias (2006, with Rachel Nichols, Amanda Foreman, and stunts by Shauna Duggins), and Monk (2006, stunt coordinated by Charlie Brewer), and film credits are Miss Congeniality (2000) and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), both with William Shatner, The Italian Job (2003), Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004, with stunts by Oliver Keller), Van Helsing (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Déjà Vu (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and Rush Hour 3 (2007).

In 2002 he was nominated for an American Choreography Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fight Choreography for the Angel episode A New World. Two years later he was part of the stunt crew which won a Taurus World Stunt Award for Best Specialty Stunt in The Italian Job. In 2009 he was among those stunt performers who were nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Massa also worked as stunt coordinator on several projects such as The Punisher (2004), Weeds (2005) and Pepper Dennis (2006, along with Mike Gunther and Monica Staggs), This Is Not a Test (2008), K-Ville (2008), Dollhouse (2009-2010), Zeke and Luther (2009), and True Blood (2010-2011), Princess Protection Program (2009, with Molly Hagan) and the comedy The Proposal (2009, with Michael Nouri and Mary-Linda Rapelye).

Further stunt work include Meet Dave (2008, with Gabrielle Union and stunts by Alex Madison, Kimberly Murphy, and Darlene Ava Williams), Fast & Furious (2009), Miss March (2009, with Geoff Meed, Chris Durand, and Gary Wayton), Surrogates (2009, with Ned Vaughn and stunts by Eddie Braun, Ken Clark, Kevin Derr, and Kurt D. Lott), episodes of Mad Men (2009, with Ned Vaughn, Deborah Lacey, and Arne Starr), Sons of Anarchy (2009, with William Lucking, Ron Perlman, Jeff Kober, Douglas Tait, Mickey Cassidy, and Tim Sitarz), and Grimm (2012), The Expendables (2010), the drama Water for Elephants (2011), and Fast Five (2011).

Massa worked as stunt coordinator on Parker (2013, with Randy Hall and Mike Mukatis), doubled actor James Badge Dale in Iron Man 3 (2013, with Sala Baker, Mark Chadwick, Ilram Choi, Shauna Duggins, Dane Farwell, Lisa Hoyle, Brian Simpson, and Salomon Passariello), actor David Boreanaz in Bones (2013, with Mark Wagner, Erica Grace, Mike Gunther, Angela Meryl, Simon Rhee, Chrissy Weathersby, and April Weeden), and performed stunts in After Earth (2013), The Hangover Part III (2013), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), Need for Speed (2014, with Glenn R. Wilder and Oliver Keller), and an episode of Agent Carter (2015, with Marcus Young, Denney Pierce, and Kimberly Murphy).

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