Andy Gill
Biography
Andy Gill (born 5 November 1956) is a second unit director, stunt coordinator and performer. A member of prestigious industry organisations—including the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and Stunts Unlimited—Gill has contributed to more than 350 film and television projects, earning acclaim for his skill both behind and in front of the camera.
Gill’s early career included stunt performances in high-profile films such as Cannonball Run II (1984), Independence Day (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). Notably, he served as stunt double for Brent Spiner in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), performing a significant high-fall stunt.
As a stunt coordinator and second-unit director, Gill has shaped action sequences in a range of major films. He coordinated stunts for blockbuster entries in the Fast & Furious franchise—Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9: The Fast Saga (2021), and Fast X (2023)—and has held roles on Marvel Cinematic Universe projects such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
Gill’s excellence has been recognised with multiple Taurus World Stunt Awards. He won for Best Sequence Stunt Coordination for Pearl Harbor (2001). In 2004, he took home awards for both Best Work with a Vehicle and Best Stunt Coordination for Bad Boys II (2003). His nominations span a wide array of films, including Showtime (2002), Last Holiday (2006), Death Race (2008), Vantage Point (2008), Furious 7 (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), F9: The Fast Saga (2021), and Fast X (2023).
Gill holds the Guinness World Record as the highest-grossing stuntman or coordinator, with his body of work’s cumulative box office surpassing $12.2 billion worldwide.
Known for
Touched by an Angel
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and returns from the dead...again...to do his bidding.
Fast Getaway
A falling out within a bank robbing foursome splits up the group and pits a father and his sixteen-year-old son against their vengeful former partners.
McBain
Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.
Cohen and Tate
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners
A making-of documentary featurette found on the "Sinners" home video release.
