Xuyen Valdivia
Xuyen Valdivia (also known as Sammy Valdivia) is a stuntman and stunt actor who served as stunt double for Garrett Wang on several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. He received no credit for his work and a costume worn by him was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay where his name was misspelled as Sammy Valdavia. [1](X) More recently Valdivia performed stunts for Star Trek. [2]
In 2002, Valdivia was part of the stunt team which received a Taurus World Stunt Award for best fight in Rush Hour 2. He is a skilled martial artist and studied stunt driving in Rick Seaman's Stunt Driving School.
Valdivia has doubled for actors such as Dustin Nguyen (in V.I.P.), Reggie Lee (in The Fast and the Furious 2001), and Jason Scott Lee (in Balls of Fury 2007). Other film work includes Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Mulholland Drive (2001), Blade 2 (2002), The Scorpion King (2002, starring The Rock, and with Branscombe Richmond), Spider-Man (2002, starring Kirsten Dunst), Spider-Man 2 (2004, with Daniel Dae Kim and Donna Murphy), Constantine (2005), War of the Worlds (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, both with Tom Morga and Theo Kypri), and Rambo (2008).
He performed also in Nash Bridges, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edium, and Heroes, where he doubled James Kyson Lee under stunt coordinator Ian Quinn. Among his other projects are Hancock (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), and Twilight (2008). Star Trek was his third collaboration with director J.J. Abrams, having worked on Alias and Mission: Impossible III (2006).