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Steen Young is a Scottish stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked as stuntman on the 1997 Paramount Pictures science fiction/horror film Event Horizon. Beside appearing as a screaming body in the first minutes of the film, Young also worked as stunt double for actor Jack Noseworthy on the film. The opening scene with Young was later re-used for the Star Trek: Voyager fourth season episode "Random Thoughts" as part of a collection of violent thoughts. Fellow Event Horizon actor Noah Huntley was also featured in "Random Thoughts". Visual effects supervisor Richard Yuricich worked on Event Horizon.
Young has been working in the film industry since the mid-1990s and among his first appearances are stunt parts in the television series 999 and Gulliver's Travels (1996), First Knight (1996, with Ben Cross), The Fifth Element (1997, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., John Neville, and Sonita Henry), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997, with Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Vincent Schiavelli, and Theo Kypri), and The Avengers (1998).
Further stunt work include The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999, with Whoopi Goldberg and Colm Meaney), Below (2002, with Bruce Greenwood), 28 Days Later (2002, with Noah Huntley), Bright Young Things (2003, with John Franklyn-Robbins and Alec Newman), I – Proud to Be an Indian (2004), Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004, with Daniel Roebuck), Batman Begins (2005, with Rick Avery, Laura Albert, Brian Christensen, and Terry Jackson), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, with Deep Roy), Munich (2005, starring Eric Bana and with Rob McCabe), Poseidon (2006, with Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Caroline Lagerfelt, Menina Fortunato, and Austin Priester), The Da Vinci Code (2006, screenplay by Akiva Goldsman), The Golden Compass (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, with Bruce Greenwood, Alicia Coppola, Albert Hall, and Larry Cedar), The Dark Knight (2008, with Keith Szarabajka, Danny Goldring, and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.) for which he won the Taurus World Stunt Award in the category Best Fight in 2009.
As stunt coordinator, Young worked on a number of video games including Ronaldo V-Football (2000), Conflict Desert Storm (2002), The Great Escape (2003), Miami Vice (2004), Quantum of Solace (2008), and the short film 82 (2012).
Further stunt work include Kick-Ass (2010), the adventure Robin Hood (2010, with Scott Grimes), X-Men: First Class (2011, with Glenn Morshower and Ray Wise), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, with Neal McDonough, Spencer Garrett, and Stan Lee), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), John Carter (2012, with Joe Billingiere and Ian Ray), Snow White & the Huntsman (2012, starring Chris Hemsworth), Les Misérables (2012) for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2013, World War Z (2013), Red 2 (2013, with Neal McDonough), Thor: The Dark World (2013, with Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, and Alice Krige), and in episodes of Game of Thrones (2011-2015) and 24: Live Another Day (2014).
Young worked as additional stunt coordinator on Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014, starring Chris Pine) and on The Royals (2015). He coordinated the short drama Shadow Man (2014) and Slumber (2016) and doubled actor Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, with Ron Perlman).
More recently, he performed stunts in The Martian (2015), in the adventure The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Rogue One (2016), American Assassin (2017), and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, executive produced by J.J. Abrams), and worked as stunt coordinator on the war drama Pegasus Bridge (2017).
External links[]
- SteenStunts.com – official site
- Steen Young at the Internet Movie Database