Joni Avery

Joni Avery is a stuntwoman and stunt coordinator who doubled Marina Sirtis in and  and played one of the escaping Ba'ku in a stunt scene in Star Trek: Insurrection.

She is married to stuntman and stunt coordinator Rick Avery. They have two sons, both stuntmen, Brian Avery and Mike Avery.

Avery doubled stars such as (wife to Jonathan Frakes),  (in "Cryin" music video by Aerosmith),  (in Baywatch),  (in Boys on the Side 1994 with Whoopi Goldberg and Never Been Kissed 1999),  (in Species 1995), Olivia d'Abo (in The Big Green 1995),  (in Vibes 1988),  (in First Wives Club 1996 with Stephen Collins),  (in The Sweetest Thing 2002),  (in Cursed 2004 with Anita Hart),  (in Little Black Book 2004, with Sharon Lawrence), and is the main stunt double for actress  in most of her films as well as in the television series Medium (since 2005, some episodes were written by Rene Echevarria who is also an executive producer on this series).

She is also a stunt coordinator for films and television series such as V.I.P. (1998-1999), The Handler (2003, with Mary Mara), and White Oleander (2003, with John Billingsley).

Among her stunt performing credits are films such as True Romance (1993, with Christian Slater), Addams Family Values (1993, with Christopher Lloyd, and Patricia Tallman), The Mask (1994, with Kevin Grevioux), Broken Arrow (1996, with Christian Slater and Mark Riccardi), Titanic (1997, with Michael Ensign, Jenette Goldstein, Tricia O'Neil, and Anita Hart), Deep Impact (1998, with James Cromwell and Denise Crosby), Scream 3 (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001, with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Warner, and Simone Boisseree), Showtime (2002, with William Shatner), Hulk (2003, with Regi Davis and Boni Yanagisawa), Taxi (2004. with Denney Pierce and Katie Rowe), Bewitched (2005, with Patricia Tallman), and Poseidon (2006, with Caroline Lagerfelt and Darlene Williams).