Jasi Cotton Lanier
- Stunts
- Actress
- Additional Crew
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Jasi Lanier took an unconventional route into the stunt industry. After
graduating from University of South Carolina in Media Arts, she
modeled, acted in horror movies and performed as a fire-eater to pay
off her student loans. After shooting a movie in New Jersey, she fell
in love with her co-star Joseph Anthony and decided to movie up north
to study Meisner Technique with Glen Vincent and ShotoKan Karate. She
continued to study acting in NYC with Olinda Turturro and Enzo Carolina
performing in many indie films, including The Resurrection Game, Nikos,
B-Movie, and Fifth City. Through a chance meeting at Pittsburgh Comicon
she met artists Dave Nestler and Dorian Cleavenger. She approached them
to do an interview for a magazine. After the interviews, they both
asked her to pose for them. That meeting led to the beginning of her
career as an art model for comics, fantasy, pinup art, and romance
novels. She was most notably was Joe Jusko's Tomb Raider model for Top
Cow comics for several years and featured on the cover of Heavy Metal
Magazine in August 2003 and Heavy Metal Calendars by Greg Hildebrandt
in 2005/2006. She has modeled for over 300 paintings thus far. Though
she loved modeling and acting in B- horror movies, Jasi felt something
was missing. Upon closer examination she came to realize that her true
passion was to become a stuntwoman. Inspired by her Uncle Dusty who
performed in live stunt shows in the 60s/70s and several articles about
stuntwomen in the magazine Femme Fatales, Jasi set out to become a
stuntwoman. She worked a few years dabbling in stunts in independent
movies and industrials. In June of 2005, with the blessing of her
family and friends made the big move to Los Angeles. At first she was
overwhelmed by the city, but quickly embraced all that the Los Angeles
had to offer. She did background work and got her SAG card being
featured on 2 1/2 Men. Jasi then joined a stunt service and started
training at the famed Bob Yerkes backyard in the art of high falls,
fights, swords and reactions. She got her first opportunity there by
Stuntman/ Stunt Coordinator John Moio who saw her sword fighting. He
recommended her for a job on the show iCarly doubling a 14-year boy for
stunt coordinator, Vince Deadrick Jr. She had all weekend to practice
sword-fighting left handed for an audition on Monday. With the help of
her friend, and stuntman, Mario Perez, she trained all weekend, day and
night, for her audition. On Monday, she showed up and she booked the
job on the iFence episode of iCarly doubling actor Nathan Kress She
continues to work on iCarly now doubling actress, Jennette McCurdy for
the past 4 years. Jasi continued to train and booked a few jobs while
also supplementing her income as a set decorator. In 2010, she decided
to commit to stunts full time and it paid off. Jasi has worked on shows
such as Alice in Wonderland, Castle, Raising Hope, Vampire Diaries, and
Criminal Minds. While continuing to work in stunts, Jasi is making a
resurgence to acting appearing recently in the short film Broken and
being featured on all female "Jack Ass" style stunt show called Cherry
Bombs affectionately known as Firecracker. This fall, she will again be
modeling for artists such as Mike James, Greg Hildebrandt, Guy Powers,
Age and Lorenzo Sperlonga. Her love for stunts has driven her to serve
her community. She has volunteered and served as a department head for
Stuntacular, a live Halloween stunt show that is a fundraiser for Make
a Wish. Jasi is served as an assistant board member for Diamond in the
Raw/ Stuntwomen's Awards and secretary for the Stuntwomen's Foundation.
She continues to train Kung fu and will be testing black sash in 2012,
weapons, swords, acrobatics, boxing, and stunts. She is a certified
PADI Rescue Diver and is adding stilt walking and fire staff to her
skills set. Jasi enjoys roller-skating, tai chi, hula hooping, rock
climbing, rappelling, and hiking in her free time. Her life philosophy
comes from her father who taught her to collect experiences.