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Pat Romano (born 10 December 1962; age 61) is a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, and stunt rigger who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation (as a stunt double in "The Last Outpost") and three Star Trek films. He is related to fellow stunt performers Jimmy Romano and J.P. Romano.

Romano is the founder and owner of the production company Romano Stunt Rentals, Inc. In 2009 he won a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series for his work on Heroes, shared with Robert Alonzo, Horace Knight, Jr., Austin Priester, Simon Rhee, Mark Riccardi, Spike Silver, Erik Stabenau, Nancy Thurston, Mark Wagner, and Marcus Young. The same year he received a SAG Award nomination in the same category for his work on Prison Break, shared with Eddie Braun, Alex Daniels, Tanner Gill, Steve Kelso, Hubie Kerns, Jr., Henry Kingi, Jr., Johnny Martin, Eric Norris, Lin Oeding, and Pete Turner. Romano performed stunts in Jurassic Park (1993, with Gary Epper, R.A. Rondell, and Patricia Tallman). He worked as assistant stunt coordinator on The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and as stunt coordinator on Jurassic Park III (2001, with Chris Blackwood, Bob Brown, Bobby Burns, Mark Ginther, Lisa Hoyle, Wayne King, Jr., J.P. Romano, Jimmy Romano, and Gary Wayton).

Romano started to work in the stunt industry in the late 1970s and appeared in episodes of Hart to Hart (1979 and 1982, with Greg Barnett, Ronald R. Rondell, Jean Coulter, Tim Culbertson, and Hubie Kerns, Jr.), Knots Landing Simon & Simon, Knight Rider (with Terry James), M*A*S*H (1982), St. Elsewhere, The A-Team (starring Dwight Schultz), V, Hardcastle and McCormack, The Master, Highway to Heaven, Booker, Moonlighting (1985, with Greg Barnett, Carol Daniels Dement, and Keii Johnston), Spenser: For Hire (starring Avery Brooks), MacGyver, The New Gidget, Houston Knights (1987, with Greg Barnett and Bob McGovern), 21, Jump Street, America's Most Wanted, Rescue 911, Tales from the Crypt, Alien Nation (1989, with Rick Avery and Joseph Michael Roth), and Baywatch.

Earlier film stunt work include Annie (1982), the fantasy drama Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), Surf II (1984), The Karate Kid (1984), Johnny Dangerously (1984), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Mannequin (1987, starring Kim Cattrall), The Lost Boys (1987), Colors (1988), The Blob (1988), Feds (1988), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), The Abyss (1989), and Back to the Future Part II (1989).

In the 1990s, Romano worked on Spontaneous Combustion (1990), Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), Another 48 Hrs. (1990, with Kevin Tighe, Shauna O'Brien, and stunts by Patricia Tallman), Predator 2 (1990), Captain America (1990), The Godfather Part III (1990), The Rocketeer (1991, with William O. Campbell), Batman Returns (1992), Addams Family Values (1993), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993, with Whoopi Goldberg), The Flintstones (1994), Species (1995), Mortal Kombat (1995), Seven (1995), Broken Arrow (1996, with Christian Slater), Barb Wire (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996, with Paul Winfield), Rush Hour (1998), and Wild Wild West (1999). He also appeared on Hull High (1990), The Flash (1990, with Bobby Burns, Cullen Chambers, and Gary Guercio), Mad About You, The X-Files, Marker (starring Gates McFadden), Red Shoe Diaries (1996), Tracey Takes On, Nash Bridges, Seven Days (1998), L.A. Heat (1997-1999), and Angel.

Further stunt work includes Bedazzled (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Showtime (2002, with William Shatner), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Daredevil (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003, with Anthony Zerbe), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Van Helsing (2004), Domino (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Déjà Vu (2006), Evan Almighty (2007), Rush Hour 3 (2007), You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Hancock (2008), Twilight (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), and episodes of Freaky Links, Gideon's Crossing, Monk, Pepper Dennis, Fear Factor, American Gladiators, Prison Break (2009, with Tanner Gill, Diana R. Lupo, and Eric Norris), and Entourage (2010).

More recently, he worked as stunt rigger on No Ordinary Family (2011, with Oliver Keller) and the comedy A Thousand Words (2012, with Andy Gill and Horace Knight, Jr.) and as stunt performer in the drama Water for Elephants (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and the comedy A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012, with Eddie Braun and Tom McComas).

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