J.J. Perry

J.J. Perry is an American martial artist, actor and action director who came to stunt work in the late 1980s after serving in the military. He took up martial arts as a boy in 1975, cleaning a martial arts school in exchange for lessons, and by 1993 had reached the rank of fourth-degree black belt in taekwondo. His acting grew out of the Mortal Kombat series: he did stunt work for the Johnny Cage character in the first film, then took the Scorpion, Cyrax and Noob Saibot roles in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), and played Sub-Zero in the MK: Conquest television show while handling stunts for Kung Lao. Other stunt credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24 and Beowulf. In 2004 he shared the World Stunt Awards' Male Stuntman of the Year honor for The Rundown, and ActionFest named him its 2012 Stunt Coordinator of the Year. He directed his first feature, Day Shift, in 2022.