Zoe Bell

Zoe Bell was born in 1978 to a nurse named Tish and a doctor named Andrew Bell and also has a younger brother. She was born in New Zealand. She grew up in Auckland. She also has a foster brother called Leonhard. She studied at Auckland Girls’ Grammar School and then attended Selwyn College. She is the prime example that anything is possible if you have the right determination and interest for it. She was a tall teenager and always had an urge to throw her legs around. She started showing interest in gymnastics when she was in school. She began exploring about martial arts and its forms. She mainly looked into Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu, Aikido, etc. The first academy that she went to try was a 45 minutes drive away from home. It focused on Tae Kwon Do.

When she first went there to have a look, she got reeled in and got in right then and there, even though other schools were closer to her home. She couldn’t contain her excitement, and that’s what started the wonderful journey of this female stuntwoman. Her career began in the year 1992 when she got asked to contact a New Zealand soap opera because of a stuntman her father treated. She got hired for her first stunt for that opera. Her stunt was to jump out of a moving car in Shortland Street. She then got hired for doing stunts in the famous TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, which ran from 1995-1999. She also did several other stunt jobs in TV during this period. She received the main focus when she took up the stunt job in the TV show Xena: Warrior Princess for the actress Lucy Lawless.

In fact, by the fourth season, she was taken up as her stunt double. During the shooting of stunts for this show, she suffered various injuries to her spine, but she continued working until another stunt left her incapacitated. Later, she also became a stunt double for Uma Thurman She was known as “My Super Ex-Girlfriend.” Uma Thu >> Read More... in the movie Kill Bill Vol. 1. When Quentin Tarantino and the stunt team saw what she was capable of, she got hired for Kill Bill Vol. 2. She injured herself a lot through the making of the movie but her relentlessness is commendable. In 2004, she was featured as her herself alongside former stuntwoman Jeannie Epper in the documentary film Double Dare. The film focussed on the lives of stuntwomen, their struggles, her relation with the veteran stuntwoman, etc. It shows how difficult it is for stuntwomen to be in demand in a career which is mainly male dominated. She has won the World Stunt Awards several times for her Kill Bill and Grindhouse. In 2009, she also won the Maverick Movie Award for Best Stunts. Because of Quentin, she got her big break as an actress in his movie Death Proof in 2007.

She performed her stunts in the movie and played herself in the role. After that, she also worked with notable actor Gerard Butler Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty. For >> Read More... , with whom she also had a short affair during the making of the movie. The film, called Gamer, had an American soldier who helps a young girl who is in trouble. She was also a part of Drew Barrymore’s first movie, Whip It, in 2009. The versatility of her roles expanded as she took part in the TV series Lost in its fourth season and also in Angel of Death alongside Lucy Lawless. She is an inspiration to those who want to do a little different in a world which only believes in conforming.