“I spent all my savings to become a stuntwoman”
STUNT DOUBLE TIGER RUDGE SPENDS HER WORKING LIFE DICING WITH DANGER
AS TOLD TO LOUISE CAROLIN
“ I spent all my savings to become a stuntwoman”
As a stunt performer, I’ve appeared in big Hollywood films like The Jungle Book (out next year) and Legend, the story of the Kray twins, released this summer. You won’t recognise me though. The idea behind what we do is that we’re never seen. We’re the heroes behind the actors or the actresses when they do all this fancy stu… that makes people go, “Oh my god!” Having said that, I was in a Channel 4 reality show called The Audience as myself, and as a child actor I did Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.
I was a maniac as a child, but not in a bad way, my energy was controlled through being mischievous and adventurous. I le‰ acting to study law but never finished my degree. A‰ er a spell travelling, I set up in business in my 20s, breaking young horses and selling them on.