Thisbiography of a living personneeds additionalcitations forverification. Please help by addingreliable sources.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced orpoorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentiallylibelous. Find sources: "Terry Notary" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Terry Notary
Notary in 2018
Born	(1968-08-14)August 14, 1968 (age 56) San Rafael, California, United States
Occupations	Actor stunt co-ordinator/double movement coach

Terry Notary (born August 14, 1968)^[1] is an American actor, stunt coordinator /double and movement coach.^[2] Notary mainly portrays creatures and animals for the film and television industry, and is known for hismotion capture performances in films, includingAvatar,The Adventures of Tintin: Secrets of the Unicorn, thePlanet of the Apes reboot series,The Hobbit trilogy, andKong: Skull Island. In 2018, Notary playedCull Obsidian in theMarvel Studios filmsAvengers: Infinity War andAvengers: Endgame.

Born inSan Rafael,California, Notary was diagnosed as being severely hyperactive at age 7. His parents enrolled him in gymnastics class to burn off excess energy.^[3] He won a gymnastics scholarship at theUniversity of California, where he graduated with a major in theatre.

Notary's first career was as a performer withCirque du Soleil. His first job as a stunt movement coach was onDr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. DirectorRon 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.^[4] Notary followed this new career path to Tim Burton'sPlanet of the Apes, for which he prepared by studying ape movements at the LA County Zoo. Notary's first motion capture film wasAvatar, where he was the movement coach for the Na'vi.^[5]

Swedish directorRuben Östlund hired Notary when casting hisPalme d'Or-winning 2017 filmThe Square. For Oleg, a character who acts like an ape, Östlund discovered Notary after running aGoogle search for "actor imitating monkey" and viewing one of Notary's performances (which was for an audition forPlanet of the Apes).^[6] 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."^{[7][8][9][10]}

• Terry Notary atIMDb

• 1968 births
• Living people
• Actors from San Rafael, California
• American male film actors
• American stunt performers
• Male motion capture actors

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• BLP articles lacking sources from July 2012
• All BLP articles lacking sources
• Articles with hCards