Petra Sprecher (born 2 August 1973; age 51) is a stunt actress and stuntwoman who played a Coppelius android in the Star Trek: Picard first season episode "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2". She received no credit for her appearance.
Sprecher filmed a longer fight scene for the episode with stuntmen Bryan Cartago, Eric Watson, Zachry Rogers, Ella Rogers, and Trevor Logan (the latter doubling for Harry Treadaway), which was rehearsed for nearly a week. However, most of the fight ended up as a deleted scene, and only a portion (with Cartago and Logan) remained in the finished episode. [1]
Born and raised in Switzerland, Sprecher began training with a local youth circus at the age of seven. She continued her circus training in Istanbul, Turkey, and Montréal, Canada. A trained acrobat, she performed for three years with the famed Quebecois circus troupe Cirque du Soleil.
She moved to Hollywood and began a career as a stuntwoman in the early 2000s, when she got a part in Minority Report (2002, with Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Sumalee Montano). She continued with films such as The Time Machine (2002, with Doug Jones), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, with Lee Arenberg, Zoë Saldana, and Greg Ellis, and stunts by Brian Avery, Vince Deadrick, Allan Graf, Derek Mears, Tom Morga, Bob Orrison, Jay Caputo, and Brian J. Williams), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Taxi (2004, with stunts by Alex Daniels, Rick Avery, and Hubie Kerns, Jr.), and Æon Flux (2005).
She served as stunt double for Rosario Dawson in Eagle Eye (2008, with William Sadler and Deborah Strang), for Zoë Saldana in Colombiana (2011, with Cynthia Addai-Robinson), for Paula Patton in Baggage Claim (2013), for Kali Hawk in Fifty Shades of Black (2016), and for Vivica A. Fox in Independence Day: Resurgence (2019, with Brent Spiner). She was nominated for two Taurus World Stunt Awards for her work in Eagle Eye, as Best High Work and Best Overall Stunt by a Woman.
Sprecher's television credits include series such as Scrubs (starring Ken Jenkins, guest starring Lee Arenberg), J.J. Abrams' Alias (doubling for Merrin Dungey, also with Melissa George and Greg Grunberg), She Spies (with Jeffrey Combs), The District (starring Roger Aaron Brown, with Tony Todd), CSI: NY (with Bumper Robinson, Albie Selznick, and Ed O'Ross), The Shield (starring Michael Jace, Jay Karnes, Abby Brammell, and Benito Martinez), Pushing Daisies (with Mark Harelik, created by Bryan Fuller and directed by Allan Kroeker), Cold Case (doubling for Lanei Chapman, also with Iona Morris), Castle (doubling for Toks Olagundoye, directed by Rob Bowman), Lethal Weapon (with David Keith Anderson), Criminal Minds, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Lovecraft Country (with Sufe M. Bradshaw, executive produced by J.J. Abrams).