Germany — Oldenburg Film Festival Honors Stunt Legend Zoë Bell With a Career Tribute

• The Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg gives Zoë Bell a career tribute, September 16–20, 2026.
• Bell doubled Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess and Uma Thurman on the Kill Bill films.
• She will attend in person and present the four films in the retrospective.

Posted: August 13, 2026

The Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg will devote a career tribute to Zoë Bell at its 33rd edition, September 16–20, 2026 — a rare case of a European festival building a retrospective around a stunt performer rather than a director. Organizers framed the honor around visibility, noting that stunt work has historically stayed off-screen and that “Zoë Bell broke with that pattern,” becoming “one of the defining physical presences of modern genre cinema.”

The New Zealand-born Bell came up as Lucy Lawless's double on Xena: Warrior Princess across six seasons, doubled Uma Thurman on the Kill Bill films, and then moved in front of the camera in Death Proof — including the hood-ride sequence she performed herself — and later Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Her stunt credits also run through Iron Man 3 and Thor: Ragnarok, and she has four Taurus World Stunt Awards.

The retrospective screens Death Proof, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Angel of Death and the 2004 documentary Double Dare, which followed Bell and Jeannie Epper. Bell will attend and present the films in person — worth noting for performers working in Europe this September.

Sources: The Hollywood Reporter — Oldenburg Festival to Honor Stunt Legend Zoë Bell · Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg — Festival News

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