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Bret Kiene (born 16 June 1964; age 61) is a stuntman and stunt actor who appeared as an alien soldier in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "The Communicator". He received no credit for this appearance but was identified by the call sheets of the episode.

Kiene worked as stunt double for actor Eric Close on McKenna (1994-1995, with Jack Kehler and Tracy Middendorf), Dark Skies (1996-1997, with Conor O'Farrell, Tim Kelleher, Jeri Ryan, and Brian J. Williams and coordinated by John Moio), The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000, with Ron Perlman, Rick Worthy, and Andrew Kavovit), Without a Trace (coordinated by Dennis Madalone), and Chaos (2011, with Kurtwood Smith).

He also doubled Jason London in Countdown (1996, with Lori Petty and Ron Sarchian), Adam Storke in Prey (1998, with Larry Drake, Laura Albert, Todd Bryant, Jennifer Caputo, Charles Grisham, and Scott Leva), Eric Lutes in Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! (1998, with Ron Sarchian), Garry Shandling in What Planet Are You From? (2000, coordinated by John Moio), Robert De Niro in Men of Honor (2000, with Justin Sundquist and Tierre Turner), and Adam Garcia in The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002, coordinated by John Moio).

His credits as stunt coordinator include Alvarez & Cruz (2003) and Sherman's Way (2008, with Donna Murphy). In 2009, Kiene was among the stunt performers who received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for his work on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Further stunt work include Imaginary Crimes (1994), Mad Love (1995, with Hugh Aodh O'Brien and coordinated by Webster Whinery), Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story (1997, with Cazimir Milostan), the television movie Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997, coordinated by John Moio), Spanish Judges (2000, with Gilbert Combs, Eddie Braun, Steven Lambert, Shawn Lane, and Diana R. Lupo), Bedazzled (2000, coordinated by John Moio), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003, with Elle Alexander, Chris Blackwood, Bobby Burns, Mark Chadwick, Kiante Elam, Ousaun Elam, Oliver Keller, Angela Meryl, and Austin Priester), Garfield: The Movie (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004, with Kirsten Dunst), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Failure to Launch (2006), Waist Deep (2006, with Rick Avery, Hubie Kerns, Jr., Scott Leva, and Chris O'Hara), Zoom (2006, coordinated by John Moio), Crank (2006), Jackass Number Two (2006), and Captain Fantastic (2016, with Ken Clark and coordinated by Al Goto).

He also performed stunts in episodes of Under Suspicion (1994-1995), Nowhere Man (1995-1996, starring Bruce Greenwood, with Megan Gallagher), Pacific Blue, The District, Leverage (2012), Z Nation (2014, with Michael Welch and Keith Allan), and Grimm (2014, with Reggie Lee, Eliza Coleman, Allen Robinson, John-Clay Scott, and Pete Turner).

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