Monica Shaw
Encyclopedia
Monica Shaw is a professional skateboarder from Sydney
, Australia
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, as a stunt double
for the character of Baby T, as played by Alyssa McClelland
.
documenting an all-female skateboarding tour of her native Australia. Shaw also appears briefly on Getting Nowhere Faster
.
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Skateboarding
Monica Shaw is one of a small group of professional female skaters and regarded as the best female skater in Australia. She was introduced to skateboarding by her 3 older brothers. Monica was featured in the Australian feature film Deck DogzDeck Dogz
Deck Dogz is a 2005 Australian skater film, written and directed by Steve Pasvolsky and starring Sean Kennedy, Ho Thi Lu and Richard Wilson with a guest appearance by Tony Hawk. It was filmed in and around Adelaide and Sydney, Australia...
, as a stunt double
Stunt double
A stunt double is a type of body double, specifically a skilled replacement used for dangerous film or video sequences, in movies and television , and for other sophisticated stunts...
for the character of Baby T, as played by Alyssa McClelland
Alyssa McClelland
Alyssa McClelland is an Australian actress and filmmaker. McClelland was educated at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in Sydney and holds a BA Communications in Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology Sydney...
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Videos
Shaw is featured on the skate DVD AKA: Girl SkaterAKA: Girl Skater
AKA: Girl Skater is a 2003 documentary about four female professional skateboarders on a skateboarding tour in Australia.The documentary follows Dave Carnie as he leads pro skaters Amy Caron, Vanessa Torres, Monica Shaw, and Jaime Reyes on a tour of Australia, visiting a variety of skate parks and...
documenting an all-female skateboarding tour of her native Australia. Shaw also appears briefly on Getting Nowhere Faster
Getting Nowhere Faster
Getting Nowhere Faster is a 2004 American documentary about female skateboarders. The documentary features skateboarding footage of the world's best female skateboarders, as well as a fiction film called The Skatepark Hauntings of Debbie Escalante...
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