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Leigh Hennessy

Leigh Hennessy
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Nationality USA
Birth at Lafayette (USA)

Leigh Hennessy is a world trampoline champion who runs the acclaimed trampoline Website Trampoline Pundit. In addition to being the Trampoline Pundit, she also enjoys a career as an actress and stunt performer in the film and television industries.



Leigh's father, Jeff Hennessy, a retired associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana) was an expert in the sport of trampolining and was her first trampoline coach. According to Guinness World Records, she holds the record for winning the most US national championships in trampoline for women. She competed for the United States in several world championships in individual trampoline, synchronized trampoline, and double mini-trampoline, winning two world titles.

While Leigh was one of the best female trampolinists in United States history, she was also a successful trampoline coach. She founded a trampoline academy in Lafayette, Louisiana and served as a coach for the United States national team.

After earning a master's degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and working for Congressman Jimmy Hayes in Washington, D.C., Leigh's career shifted to stunt work in Hollywood. She has worked as Demi Moore's stunt double in GI Jane and many other films, television shows and commercials. In 2006, Leigh starred in the opening scenes of The Guardian, a film with Kevin Costner, in which she played the role of the drowning wife. She was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2007 for her work in this movie. More recently, she transitioned into stunt coordinating and coaching stunt performers.

Best films

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
(Utility Stunts)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
(Stunts)
Deep Impact (1998)
(Stunt Double)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
(Utility Stunts)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
(Stunt Double)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
(Stunt Double)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leigh Hennessy (40 films)

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Actress

Scary Movie 5, 1h26
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Molly Shannon, Heather Locklear, J. P. Manoux
Roles Witch (uncredited)
Rating35% 1.772391.772391.772391.772391.77239
Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan get together to make a sex tape with over 20 cameras beside Sheen's bed. The time-lapsed tape fast forwards through the two doing all sorts of bedroom antics, including gymnastics, riding a horse, and having clowns jump in under the sheets. Sheen is pulled into the air by a paranormal force and thrown against walls, shelves, and doors until he lands on the bed again. Lohan is frightened so she decides to go home when she flies into the air as well; she becomes possessed and throws him into the camera and kills him. The text explains that Sheen's body was found that day but he didn't stop partying until days later, and that his three kids were found missing, Lohan was arrested, again, and a reward was put out for the missing children.
Swamp Shark
Directed by Griff Furst
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks
Actors Kristy Swanson, D. B. Sweeney, Robert Davi, Jason Rogel, Jeff Chase, Richard Tanne
Rating37% 1.8614251.8614251.8614251.8614251.861425
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes awry and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swamp Shark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!
The Guardian, 2h19
Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty
Rating69% 3.45143.45143.45143.45143.4514
Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) is the top rescue swimmer at the United States Coast Guard's Aviation Survival Technician (AST) program. Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher) is a hot-shot candidate for AST, who was ranked as a top competitive swimmer in high school with scholarships to every Ivy league college, but he opted to enlist in the Coast Guard. The film's title is introduced by a mythic tale: people lost at sea often claim they feel a presence lifting them to the surface, breathing life into their bodies while they are waiting for help to arrive. They call this presence "The Guardian".

Team

Geostorm
Geostorm (2017)
, 1h49
Directed by Dean Devlin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Katheryn Winnick, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina
Roles Stunts
Rating53% 2.665032.665032.665032.665032.66503
As a man heads into space to prevent climate-controlling satellites from creating a storm of epic proportions, his brother discovers a plot to assassinate the president.
Midnight Special, 1h52
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Actors Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, Jaeden Martell, Scott Haze
Roles Stunts
Rating65% 3.2960553.2960553.2960553.2960553.296055
Roy is a father desperate to protect his uniquely gifted, eight-year-old son Alton. Joined by Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst's characters, this group must race to get Alton to a secret location all while being hunted by an extreme religious sect led by Sam Shepard and a government task force headed up by Adam Driver. It is a full-on chase, the outcome of which could bring about a world-changing event.
The Culling
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jeremy Sumpter, Brett Davern, Chris Coy, Linsey Godfrey, Virginia Williams, Johnathon Schaech
Roles Stunts
Rating35% 1.767071.767071.767071.767071.76707
A supernatural thriller in which a group of college friends on a road trip find themselves fighting off dark forces at a remote farmhouse after a chance encounter with a strange little girl.
Hot Pursuit, 1h27
Directed by Anne Fletcher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Sofía Vergara, Reese Witherspoon, David Oyelowo, Robert Kazinsky, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Mosley
Roles Stunts
Rating51% 2.5585752.5585752.5585752.5585752.558575
Rose Cooper is a San Antonio Police Department officer whose work ethic has made her too intense in her personal life. While out on a date, she scares the guy away after she defensively pulls a gun on him.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2h11
Directed by Matt Reeves, Rupert Wyatt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Films about disabilities, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors James Franco, Judy Greer, Kirk Acevedo, Gary Oldman, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow
Roles Utility Stunts
Rating75% 3.796923.796923.796923.796923.79692
Ten years after the worldwide pandemic of the deadly ALZ-113 virus (known as the Simian Flu), human civilization is completely destroyed following martial law, civil unrest and the economic collapse of every country in the world. Over 90% of the human population has died in the pandemic, while apes with genetically enhanced intelligence have started to build a civilization of their own.
Left Behind, 1h50
Directed by Vic Armstrong
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films about religion, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dans un avion, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Nicky Whelan, Lea Thompson, Cassi Thomson, Jordin Sparks
Roles Stunts
Rating31% 1.566461.566461.566461.566461.56646
University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown in from college to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele, for his birthday party. Her mother Irene Steele quickly calls to inform her, however, that her father cannot make it. While at the airport waiting for him, Chloe meets up with investigative reporter Cameron "Buck" Williams.
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Abigail Spencer, Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Emily Alyn Lind, Cicely Tyson, Andrea Frankle
Roles Stunts
Rating53% 2.6581652.6581652.6581652.6581652.658165
The movie is set in the year 1993. The Wyrick family are delighted to receive a deal on a historic home in rural Georgia where they plan to raise their family free of the complications of city life. As the family settles in, the daughter Heidi (Emily Alyn Lind) starts to have conversations with a man she calls "Mr. Gordy"(Grant James)who owned the house before them.The house and the property was used as a shelter for the slaves. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that Mr. Gordy is a spirit and one of several that Heidi is interacting with. Her abilities were inherited from her mother's side and, while her aunt accepts the visions, her mother Lisa (Abigail Spencer) is in complete denial and suppresses her visions with medication. The other spirits that Heidi communicates with are the slaves from the underground railroad who were once sheltered in the forest by her house.
Scary Movie 5, 1h26
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Molly Shannon, Heather Locklear, J. P. Manoux
Roles Stunts
Rating35% 1.772391.772391.772391.772391.77239
Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan get together to make a sex tape with over 20 cameras beside Sheen's bed. The time-lapsed tape fast forwards through the two doing all sorts of bedroom antics, including gymnastics, riding a horse, and having clowns jump in under the sheets. Sheen is pulled into the air by a paranormal force and thrown against walls, shelves, and doors until he lands on the bed again. Lohan is frightened so she decides to go home when she flies into the air as well; she becomes possessed and throws him into the camera and kills him. The text explains that Sheen's body was found that day but he didn't stop partying until days later, and that his three kids were found missing, Lohan was arrested, again, and a reward was put out for the missing children.
Beautiful Creatures, 2h4
Directed by Richard LaGravenese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann
Roles Stunts
Rating60% 3.048513.048513.048513.048513.04851
In Gatlin, South Carolina, Ethan Wate awakens from a recurring dream of a girl he does not know. In voice-over narration, he describes his enjoyment of reading banned books, his despair of his small-town existence, and his dreams of leaving for college. Arriving for his first day of junior year, Ethan notices newcomer Lena Duchannes, who resembles the girl he has been dreaming about. The other students do not take kindly to her and spread gossip regarding Lena's reclusive uncle, Macon Ravenwood, and suggest that her family includes devil worshippers. Overhearing these whispers, Lena tenses, and the classroom windows shatter, amplifying the fears and suspicions of the class and the townspeople at large that she is a witch.
21 Jump Street, 1h49
Directed by Chris Miller, Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about education, Buddy films
Actors Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, Ice Cube
Roles Stunt Driver
Rating71% 3.597363.597363.597363.597363.59736
In 2005, bookish student Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and popular underachieving jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) miss their school prom. Seven years later, the two meet again at the Police Academy and become firm friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo (DeRay Davis), the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they failed to read him his Miranda rights.
Bending The Rules
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Jamie Kennedy, Edge, Jennifer Esposito, Alicia Witt, Kevin Weisman, Gary Grubbs
Roles Stunts
Rating48% 2.413422.413422.413422.413422.41342
Detective Nick Blades (Adam "Edge" Copeland) is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold (Jamie Kennedy) is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they'll need to rely on luck - and patience - to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first. Alicia Witt, Jennifer Esposito and Jessica Walter co-star in a story that proves that when the going gets tough, the tough continue to move at a moderate pace, thus proving that slow and steady wins the race.
Scream of the Banshee, 1h30
Directed by Steven C. Miller
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Actors Lance Henriksen, Lauren Holly, Todd Haberkorn, Kayden Kessler
Roles Stunt Coordinator
Rating38% 1.924261.924261.924261.924261.92426
An archeology professor (Lauren Holly) unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream. It can kill by controlling the person and taking the person's soul.