Today in 31 Days of Women in Motorcycling I'd like to highlight Debbie Evans, whose stunt career began when she was just 18 years old and she was called to do a motorcycle jump over a 30-foot ravine for the movie Death Sport. Since then she has been in over 200 movies and TV shows.
I didn't know anything about Debbie until I saw The Matrix. The motorcycle chase scene had me at the edge of my seat biting my nails, but grinning from ear-to-ear. I had to know who did it.
Debbie was inducted October 2003 into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. She was awarded for her work on Taxi in 2005, The Matrix Reloaded in 2004, and won the Taurus World Stunt Awards in the category "Best Overall Stunt by a Stuntwoman," previously winning two Taurus awards in 2002 for driving a Honda Civic under a moving semi-truck in The Fast and the Furious.
But The Matrix scene with "Trinity" on the Ducati is still my favorite. Really, like, "I need a download on how to hotwire a motorcycle." Ha! That was a Debbie download. Watch it on YouTube.
Read more about Debbie on her website.
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