Chris Denison

Chris Denison is a stunt performer and coordinator.

Denison grew up in the mountains in Colorado, engaging in outdoor and physical activities from a young age, including motocross, snowboarding, and off-road racing. He competed professionally in freestyle motocross as a teenager, achieving a top-15 ranking in the International Freestyle Motocross Association circuit before transitioning to other forms of racing and later into the film stunt business.

Around 2009, Denison began gaining formal e ... ntry into stunt work through mentorship with industry professionals like Gary Hymes. He obtained his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card in 2010, marking a milestone in his professional stunt career.

Denison has worked in a variety of stunt roles—performer, stunt double, driver, coordinator—and in different environments, including underwater work. He also has training in disciplines outside traditional stunt performing, such as freediving, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Krav Maga, and other combat and safety skills. In Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), he served as a stunt double for Sam Worthington. In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), he was credited as a stunt coordinator.

At the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the stunt ensemble for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) was nominated for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and Denison was among those so nominated. He also shared in the same recognition for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In addition, he was part of the stunt ensemble nominated for the same category at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Logan (2017).