1968-08-14 ( 56 years old ) in San Rafael, California, USA
Terry Notary (born August 14, 1968) is an American actor, stunt coordinator/double, and movement coach. Notary mainly portrays creatures and animals for the film and television industry and is known for his motion capture performances in films like Avatar, The Adventures of Tintin: Secrets of the Unicorn, the Planet of the Apes reboot series, The Hobbit trilogy, and Kong: Skull Island. In 2018, Notary played Cull Obsidian in the Marvel Studios films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
Born in San Rafael, California, Notary was diagnosed as being severely hyperactive at age 7. His parents enrolled him in gymnastics class to burn off excess energy. He won a gymnastics scholarship at UCLA, where he graduated with a major in theatre.
Notary's first career was as a performer with Cirque du Soleil. His first job as a stunt movement coach was on Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Director Ron Howard was hiring Cirque gymnasts for the film, and after sufficiently impressing Howard, Notary was offered the job of teaching all the actors how to move. Notary followed this new career path to Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, for which he prepared by studying ape movements at the LA County Zoo. Notary's first motion capture film was Avatar, where he was the movement coach for the Na'vi.
Swedish director Ruben Östlund hired Notary when casting his Palme d'Or-winning 2017 film The Square. For Oleg, a character who acts like an ape, Östlund discovered Notary after running a Google search for "actor imitating monkey" and viewing one of Notary's performances (which was for an audition for Planet of the Apes). His performance in that single scene, in which a performance artist acts like a hostile ape at a fancy dinner, was widely praised, The Independent calling it "the most tense, uncomfortable scene of the year."
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Movies
The Electric State
2025-03-07
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024-05-08
Nope
2022-07-20
The Call of the Wild
2020-02-19
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
Avengers: Infinity War
2018-04-25
The Beautiful Escape
2018-02-14
The Square
2017-08-25
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017-07-11
Kong: Skull Island
2017-03-08
Warcraft
2016-05-25
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014-12-10
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014-07-08
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013-12-11
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012-12-12
The Cabin in the Woods
2012-04-12
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011-08-03
Attack the Block
2011-05-12
The Lost Tribe
2009-11-07
The Forgotten Ones
2008-11-08
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