Mario Perez is a Los Angeles based actor, director and stunt coordinator. With more than 250 studio credits to his name, he is industry known for bringing professionalism, kindness and innovative creativity to the set. In 2019 he was a recipient of the SAG Award for "Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture" for the Marvel feature Black Panther. His short film "The Tiger in the White" showed at the Regal Cinemas during the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival and, in 2021, he directed one of the first livestream multimedia theater experiences via zoom and Facebook live, incorporating complex technical camerawork in an uncut theatrical performance of Christopher Fry's medieval drama "The Lady's Not for Burning."
It's not the words in the dialogue of the script - or the moves in a fight or dance sequence - those things are almost never what counts. It's the spaces in between. What's not said and what's not done. The invisible. The support system and the connective tissue of thinking and feeling is everything.