RONIN TRAYNOR
fighting the good fight
ACTION / FIGHT DIRECTION
Ronin has directed fights for + 500 productions including commercials, film, motion capture, musicals, opera, TV and numerous theatre shows in the UK and overseas.
Game credits include Sega's BAFTA winning Total War series (Attila, Battles, Empire, Napoleon, Rome II, Shogun II, Three Kingdoms, Thrones of Britiannia, Troy and Pharaoh) and Playstation's Erica and Kill Zone Mercenary .
Features include The Intent 2 (Best Action Film - National Film Awards), Olive Green (Best Action & Adventure Film - US International Film & Video Festival), One Shot, Once Upon a Time in London, The Powder Room and Gangs of Tooting Broadway.
TV credits include work for the BBC, National Geographic and commercials for Nike, Domino's, B&Q, Heineken and McCoys.
Ronin is the founder and director of Independent Drama, one of the world's leading Stage & Screen Combat companies providing action services.
​INSTRUCTOR
Master Teacher - British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat,
Fencing Coach - British Academy of Fencing and Academie d'Armes Internationale.
Firearms Instructor - Society of American Fight Directors.
Master at Arms - International Actor Academy
Clients include RADA, DSL, Italia Conti, Spotlight and Pineapple Dance Studios.
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FIGHT PERFORMER
Credits include feature films Allies, Born of Hope, Cinderella and Green Streets 3. Theatre includes Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition and Medieval Banquets London. Motion capture fight work for Creative Assembly, Sega and Sony.
SELECTED COORDINATOR ACCOLADES
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Best Action Film - 'The Intent 2' - National Film Awards UK
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Best Feature Film - 'Hippopotamus' -TMMF
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Best Action Film nomination - 'Rise of the Krays' - National Film Awards
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Best Feature 'Kicking Off' - Raindance
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Best Action & Adventure Film 'Olive Green' - US International Film & Video Festival
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Best UK Series 'First Musketeer - UK Web Fest
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Best Choreography nomination - 'Usagi Yojimbo'- Off West End
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Best Action Scene nomination - 'Chronicles of Syntax' - Miami Web Fest
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2008 - 2019 Choreographer & Performer for multi award-winning series 'Total War' by SEGA