Steve Truglia

Steve Truglia was a stunt coordinator, stunt performer and action unit director in the UK. He became a TED speaker in 2009.

Career

Truglia served as a reservist in the UK Special Forces for twenty years.
Truglia became a professional stuntman in 1996. His motion picture stunt credits included Saving Private Ryan and two James Bond films.
Truglia set multiple records, including:

The longest Full Body Burn in the UK, ablaze for 2 minutes 5 seconds.
British record for no limits freediving –.
Awarded Guinness World Record in 2004 for fastest abseil over .

Truglia made a fundraising attempt for a world-record high altitude parachute jump from the edge of space, to surpass what was then Joe Kittinger's 1960 record. Truglia's plan was to jump from in a spacesuit. He did not attempt the stunt prior to his death when he fell from a helicopter during an abseil in China.

Media

at the TED Global Conference in Oxford, UK about technological improvements in stunts and his forthcoming parachute jump from the edge of space, in his own words, "...the greatest stunt on earth."