Zoë E. Bell (born November 17, 1978) is a New Zealand stuntwoman and actress, known for her work doubling for Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, among other movies.
Bell was born in New Zealand to Tish, a nurse, and Andrew Bell, a doctor. She has a younger brother named Jake. She grew up on Waiheke Island in Auckland. At a young age she participated in competitive gymnastics. At the age of 15 she quit to study Ta...
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Zoë E. Bell (born November 17, 1978) is a New Zealand stuntwoman and actress, known for her work doubling for Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, among other movies.
Bell was born in New Zealand to Tish, a nurse, and Andrew Bell, a doctor. She has a younger brother named Jake. She grew up on Waiheke Island in Auckland. At a young age she participated in competitive gymnastics. At the age of 15 she quit to study Taekwon-Do. She also participated in high diving, scuba, track and field and dance. Bell attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School and Selwyn College.
Bell began her career in 1992 when her father treated a stuntman for a head injury and came home with a phone number for her to call. Her first stunt job was jumping out of a car in a New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.
She began doing stunts for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess (both of which were filmed in New Zealand); by the fourth season of Xena, she was the...
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