Derek Mears

Derek Mears is the kind of working actor I have enormous respect for, the person whose face you might not name but whose presence you absolutely feel. Coming up through stunt work, he brought a physical authenticity to roles like Jason Voorhees in the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot that a purely trained actor often can't fake. Predators, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alita: Battle Angel, he keeps showing up in genre titles where the body has to do the acting. To me that stuntman foundation is exactly why his monsters land so well. He earns his menace honestly.

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Name (English)

Derek Mears

Name (Japanese)

デレク・ミアーズ

Reading

でれく・みあーず

Born

April 29, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Bakersfield, California, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / stunt performer / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

High school

Highland High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Mears
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q616982

Tags

• California
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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