Lateef Crowder

Lateef Crowder started martial arts at six and has been a capoeira practitioner ever since, which in his case is not a line of trivia but the entire basis of the career. Born in Bahia, he joined the ZeroGravity stunt team in 2000 and built a name through internet demo reels and shorts, including one called Inmate 451, at the moment when that was a viable way to get noticed.

The screen work splits in two. There are the fight roles, where he is hired to be somebody's opponent: the capoeira fighter in The Protector, Santiago Silva in Undisputed III: Redemption, Eddy Gordo in the Tekken adaptation, Santiago in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, a hijacker in The Book of Eli, Carlo in Falcon Rising, a karate bully in Ninja Cheerleaders.

And then there is the job a great many people have watched without knowing it. He is the body actor for the title character of The Mandalorian, the Mandalorian double on The Book of Boba Fett, and is credited as a Mandalorian stunt performer on the 2026 film. Much of what viewers mean when they talk about how that character moves is Crowder inside the armour.

He appears as himself in Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian and in The Art of Action. Recent credits keep him in the same lane: Neck Tattoo in The Family Plan, Juan Cardoza in Boone: The Bounty Hunter.