JASON GRAY
If someone is getting blown up, stabbed, shot or falling from a building, there’s a chance you’re getting a look at the work of 1995 UNO graduate Jason Gray. A longtime Hollywood stuntman, Gray has a long chain of movie and TV credits to his name. Ironically, his studies at UNO had prepared him for a life behind the camera. Gray attended UNO after four years in the Air Force, which left him at Offutt Air Force Base at the time of his discharge. He studied broadcast journalism. “I wanted to be a cameraman or an assistant director,” he said in a UNO Alum magazine article. He also worked for KYNETV. Coworkers, though, were leaving for Florida and jobs with Universal Studios, which had just opened in Orlando. Gray followed suit and got a job … in merchandising. He eventually would audition for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and win the lead. Then came time learning the craft with Stunt Dynamics, a move to California, and gigs on TV and in movies. In 2011 he was among a group of stuntmen that won a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series (for “True Blood”). Gray’s work continues at age 54 as a performer, rigger and coordinator and with credits in recent efforts including “Westworld,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and more.