South Africa — Chanique Greyling Went Out of a Moving Train and a Moving Car Doubling Hannah Waddingham on “Ride or Die”
- South African stunt performer Chanique Greyling doubled Hannah Waddingham on the Prime Video series “Ride or Die.”
- Waddingham says Greyling jumped out of a train and out of a car for her and kept her safe on set.
- Greyling also carries stunt credits on “The Fall Guy” and stunt-double work on “NCIS: Sydney.”
Posted: October 26, 2026
The vehicle exits are the part of a doubling job that an audience never attributes to anyone. Greyling took the train and the car for Waddingham on “Ride or Die,” the eight-part Prime Video action comedy that went out in July — moving-vehicle dismounts, rigged and rehearsed, cut so the principal’s face carries the shot either side of them. Waddingham’s own account, given to RSG 100.4 FM’s In die Kollig, puts the safety function first: “She kept me safe. She also jumped out of a train for me, jumped out of a car for me.” She describes the stunt team as the beating heart of a production, which is closer to how the department actually works than the usual credit it gets.
What Greyling talks about is the working relationship rather than the gags. In a behind-the-scenes video she sets out the trust a double and a principal have to build — the double is reading the performance closely enough to reproduce its posture and timing from behind or at distance, and the principal has to hand over the beat without hedging it. On a show where the lead has done a meaningful share of the physical work herself, that hand-off point is the whole negotiation: the double absorbs the parts that cannot be made safe at the speed the shot needs.
Her credit list is the quiet argument for the South African pipeline she says she wants to raise the profile of. “The Fall Guy” put her on a show built around the stunt department; “NCIS: Sydney” is episodic doubling, which is where volume work lives. Performers out of that territory tend to be hired onto international units and then disappear into the credits of productions that never list where the crew came from.
Source: Briefly News — SA stuntwoman Chanique Greyling doubles for Hannah Waddingham in Ride or Die
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