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Terry Jackson is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis. More recently he worked as a stunt double and as second unit stunt coordinator on Star Trek. In 2010 Jackson 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 a Taurus World Stunt Award nomination in the category Best Stunt Coordination and/or 2nd Unit Direction, shared with stunt coordinator Joey Box.

Jackson has doubled for stars such as Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Fred Dryer, Tom Hanks, Terence Stamp, Nick Nolte, Clint Eastwood, Lloyd Bridges, Brandon Lee, Luke Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Dudikoff, Kevin Bacon, Chris O'Donnell, George Clooney, Adam West, and Matthew McConnaughy, and was a regular stunt double for John Ritter in Hooperman (1988-1989), Chris Elliott in Get a Life (1990-1992), Corbin Bernsen in L.A. Law 1990-1993, co-starring Larry Drake and Diana Muldaur), Joe Lando in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1994-1998, with Erika Flores, Chad Allen, Frank Collison, Helene Udy, Barbara Babcock, Gail Strickland, and Nick Ramus), Tim Abell in Soldier of Fortune Inc. (1998, co-starring Mark Sheppard and Melinda Clarke), and Eric Martsolf in Passions (2002-2006). He also worked as personal stunt double for Bruce Willis in most of his films between 1994 and 2001.

Among his extensive stunt resume are films such as Red Dawn (1984, starring Lea Thompson), Back to the Future (1985, starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson), Cobra (1986), Invaders from Mars (1986, with Louise Fletcher and Eric Pierpoint), Dragnet (1987, with Christopher Plummer), Cherry 2000 (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, with Christopher Lloyd), Alien Nation (1988, with Leslie Bevis, Brian Thompson, Jeff Kober, and Tom Morga), License to Kill (1989), Glory (1989), RoboCop 2 (1990, with Peter Weller, Gabriel Damon, John Glover, and Mark Rolston), The Rookie (1990), Eve of Destruction (1991, with Tim Russ), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, starring Linda Hamilton), Hot Shots! (1991), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Under Siege (1992, with Colm Meaney), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), RoboCop 3 (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Money Train (1995), 12 Monkeys (1995), Anaconda (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), Titanic (1997, with David Warner, Michael Ensign, Jenette Goldstein, Mark Lindsay Chapman and Tricia O'Neil), Mercury Rising (1998), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999, starring Haley Joel Osment), Magnolia (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Spider-Man (2002, with Kirsten Dunst), Enough (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, with Kristanna Loken), The Aviator (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), I am Legend (2007, with Salli Elise Richardson), and Get Smart (2008, with The Rock).

Jackson has also performed stunts in television series such as Amazing Stories (1985), Sledge Hammer (1986), Ohara (1987), Dynasty (1984-1988, with Joan Collins), Hunter (1984-1988), WIOU, Cheers (with Kirstie Alley), Matlock (1988-1992), Space Rangers (1993, with Marjorie Monaghan, Cary-Hiroyuki, and Clint Howard), Quantum Leap (1993, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, with Carolyn Seymour), seaQuest DSV (1993, with Stephanie Beacham and Marco Sanchez), Viper (1994), Baywatch (1990-1994), JAG (1996, with Stephen McHattie), ER (1996-1997, starring Eriq La Salle), Babylon 5 (1997, starring Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and Patricia Tallman, with J. Patrick McCormack, Marjorie Monaghan, and Carolyn Seymour), V.I.P. (1998-1999), The X-Files (2001, with Jeff Austin and stunts by Shauna Duggins), and J.J. Abrams' Alias (2001-2005).

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