Alicia Vela-Bailey is a renowned stunt double who has performed stunts for both film and television, including major motion projects such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Divergent (2014), and Lights Out (2016).
Career[]
The Taurus World Stunt Awards organization has recognized her stunt skills twice by nominating her for the 2007 Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman for her performance in Ultraviolet.
Alicia has won other awards including the 2002 Urban Jamm Well Rounded Dancer of the Year, the 2000 Destination Stardom PAX TV 1st Place Variety Category Award (shared), and a Semi-finalist (group) for the 2003 Star Search Dancer of the Year.
Her dance, athletic, and performance skills include Modern Dance, Club/Freestyle, Swing, Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet, Break, Tango, Aerobics, Rollerblading, Swimming, Boxing, Track & Field, Gymnastics, and Martial Arts.
Role in the Avatar franchise[]
In Avatar, she played Ikeyni, the leader of the Tayrangi clan, and Saeyla, one of the young hunters who accompanies Jake Sully during his Iknimaya. Bailey also served as the stunt double for Zoe Saldana/Neytiri. In the Extended Collector's Edition, she also plays a blonde woman in a bar scene on Earth, where she is harassed. She also played an operations center employee at Hell's Gate (in one of the movie's deleted scenes).
In Avatar: The Way of Water, she played Zdinarsik, one of the recombinants, and performed stunts for Zoe Saldana as well as for Sigourney Weaver/Kiri. James Cameron delegated the responsibility to Sigourney for asking Alicia to do things that she could not physically do, and to direct how to do those things in her place. This included Kiri's leap up onto the amnio tank that contained Grace's avatar and the scene in which Kiri met Grace in the spirit world.[1][2]
Bailey will also play Oona Chaplin/Varang's stunt double in Avatar 3.[citation needed]
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