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Nicholas Daines is a professional gymnast and high diver from Surrey, UK, who competed in the 2003 Trampoline World Championships [1] before becoming a Hollywood stuntman. [2] [3] [4]
In 2013, Daines is European Masters High Dive champion. He won a silver medal at the Open Dutch Masters Diving Championship in 2012 [5] and was crowned European Masters 3M Champion and 10M Champion, in Kiev in 2011. [6]
Daines is a member of Equity and the World Stunt Academy.
He has performed stunts in over 50 TV shows and films, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Die Another Day , World War Z , Neverland and four Harry Potter films. [7] [8]
Daines was a member of the stunt team which won a Screen Actor's Guild award for performance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2). [9] In 2008 Nicholas was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award for his high fall from a glacier in Switzerland on the motion picture The Golden Compass. [10]
Daines has appeared in advertisements for Adidas, G Star Raw and Yellow Pages. He is a stunt double for Michael Owen.