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Mark Muñoz (born 19 August 1960; age 64) is an actor and stuntman who portrayed one of the Evora delegates in Star Trek: Insurrection alongside his brothers Michael Muñoz and Mario Muñoz. He received no credit for this appearance.

Muñoz' family appeared in several Trek projects. Beside his two brothers, his mother Nancy Muñoz and his sister-in-law Marisa Muñoz also portrayed characters in different series. He was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. Sports and stunts always were a part of his life; he wrestled in High School and was a professional jockey for over twenty years. The latter occupation brought him into the stunt business and he performed stunts as a jockey in Arliss and Beverly Hills Ninja (1997, featuring stunts by Debby Lynn Ross, Jeff Imada, Eugene Collier and Jay Caputo).

He performed stunts and doubled actors in BASEketball (1998), the independent film Fly Boy (1999, with Gregory Itzin and stunts by Brian Hite), Simpatico (1999, with Nicole Forester and Joseph Hindy), Horse Sense (1999, with Freda Foh Shen and Tom Virtue), Miracle in Lane 2 (2000, with Molly Hagan, Roger Aaron Brown, Rick Fitts, James W. Jansen, Freda Foh Shen and James Lashly), as well as in Charmed, Malcolm in the Middle (2000), Ultimate Revenge (2001), and Family Law (2001, starring Christopher McDonald, Salli Elise Richardson, Michelle Horn and Orla Brady, with Christine Healy, Richard Beymer and Reiner Schöne).

Muñoz portrayed Dr. Krovitz in the Frasier episode Halloween (1997, alongside Kelsey Grammer and Dan Butler), performed stunts as one of the apes in Planet of the Apes (2001), served as kid stunt double in Spider-Man (2002), and was one of the stunt jockeys in Seabiscuit (2003, with Michael Ensign, David Doty, Ed Lauter, Shay Duffin, Michael Buchman Silver and stunts by Kevin Derr, Jim Halty and Marty Murray).

Further credits include stuntwork in Van Helsing (2004), Everybody Hates Chris, Surface (2006), Crossing Jordan (2005 & 2006, starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell), Wildfire (2007, with James Read and stunts by Clint Lilley), and Dexter (2007, with Keith Carradine and stunts by Alina Andrei and Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom), The Shaggy Dog (2006), and There Will Be Blood (2007, with stunts by Brian Avery, Mike Justus, Keii Johnston, Denney Pierce and Paul Sklar).

Later projects include Drillbit Taylor (2009), Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2009, starring John Cho, with Missi Pyle), Step Brothers (2008, with Adam Scott, Matt Walsh and Phil LaMarr), Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Numbers, with Paul Lacovara and Hugh Aodh O'Brien under stunt coordinator Peewee Piemonte, Opposite Day (2009), alongside his brothers, Crank: High Voltage (2009), and guest roles in Last Comic Standing and Tiny Entourage.

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