Kortney Manns (born 25 March 1974; age 51) is a stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts in three episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. His costume as stunt double for Anthony Montgomery in the second season episode "The Breach" was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction and was also worn by fellow stunt doubles Austin Priester and Kiante Elam. [1](X)
Manns started his stunt career in the late 1990s when he worked on the television series Players (1997-98, with Mark Harelik, Herschel Sparber, and Angela Paton), V.I.P. (1999, stunt coordinated by Joni Avery), The X-Files (1999, starring Gillian Anderson, with Brian Thompson and Paul Willson), Family Law (1999, starring Christopher McDonald, Julie Warner, and Salli Elise Richardson), and Sliders (1999, coordinated by Gary Baxley).
He worked as stunt double on Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001, with stunts by Tom Morga and Jim Halty and coordinated by John Moio), for DMX on Cradle 2 the Grave (2003, with Marcus Young, Nancy Thurston, Monica Staggs, Katie Rowe, Susan Purkhiser, Glenn Goldstein, Brennan Dyson, Peewee Piemonte, and Troy Brenna), and for Sticky Fingaz on Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003, with Erica Grace, Irving Lewis, Deep Roy, Alex Madison, and Gary Wayton). Further stunt work include Tears of the Sun (2003), Malibu's Most Wanted (2003, coordinated by Keith Campbell), Stuck on You (2003, coordinated by Tierre Turner), School for Scoundrels (2006, working with Manny Perry, Steve Kelso, and George Colucci), the television crime drama The Kidnapping (2007, coordinated by Clint Lilley and Jayson Dumenigo), Loaded (2008, with Jeffrey Chase), and The Soloist (2009).
Among his television performances are episodes of Angel (2003, stunt coordination by Mike Massa), Threat Matrix (2003), The Shield (2002 and 2005, working with Jayson Dumenigo and Horace Knight, Jr.), Numbers (2006, with Henry Kingi, Jr. and Kenny Alexander), My Name Is Earl (2006-07, with Hiro Koda and Sandra Gimpel), Monk (2008, coordinated by Charlie Brewer), Everybody Hates Chris (2005-08), Desperate Housewives (2007-09, along with Shawn Crowder, Alex Madison, Bevin Kaye, Alina Andrei, and Scott Leva), Dexter (2006-09, with Shawn Crowder, Scott Leva, and Hugh Aodh O'Brien), Brannon Braga's FlashForward (2010, with Lin Oeding), CSI: NY (2010), House (2010, with Anthony Molinari), CSI: Miami (2011, with Paul Lacovara), and My Superhero Family (2010-11, with Boni Yanagisawa).
Manns worked as stunt coordinator on the television drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2008) and as assistant stunt coordinator to Shawn Crowder on How to Be a Serial Killer (2008, with Shelly Desai and Jack Donner). Other projects on which Manns coordinated the stunts are the television comedy Untitled Burr and Hart Project (2010) on which he also doubled comedian Kevin Hart and the drama The Man That I Was (2010).
He doubled David Oyelowo in The Paperboy (2012) and in The Butler (2013), Anthony Mackie in Repentance (2013, with Horace Knight, Jr. and Steven Lambert), Kevin Hart in This Is the End (2013, with Rihanna), Aml Ameen in The Maze Runner (2014, with Garrik Palumbo and Mark DeAlessandro), and singer Akon in American Heist (2014, with Eddie Mathews). He performed stunts in Lincoln (2012), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Oblivion (2013, coordinated by Robert Alonzo), Now You See Me (2013), Escape Plan (2013, coordinated by Noon Orsatti), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013, with Christian Fletcher), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014, coordinated by Charles Croughwell and Theo Kypri), The Prince (2014, with Hunter Baxley), and the drama Bolden! (2015, coordinated by Jeff Wolfe) as well as in episodes of Southland (2013, coordinated by Peewee Piemonte), Matador (2014, with Christopher Leps and Dorenda Moore and also coordinated by Piemonte), Sons of Anarchy (2014, coordinated by Eric Norris), NCIS: New Orleans (2014, starring Scott Bakula and Zoe McLellan and with stunts by Jay Caputo), Zoo (2015), and NCIS (2015, with Paul Scott).
More recent stunt work include Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, with stunts by Brian Avery, Ilram Choi, Tim Connolly, Zack Duhame, Kiante Elam, Dane Farwell, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Jeremy Fry, Jeff Imada, Lin Oeding, Chris Palermo, Jade Quon, Tim Rigby, and Kofi Yiadom), Roots (2016, with Jay Caputo, Bethany Levy, and Tony Donno), and Free State of Jones (2016, with stunts by Trace Cheramie, Tony Donno, and Eddie Mathews).
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