Lorena Abreu

Lorena Abreu is a Dominican Republic–born theatre kid raised in South Texas who went on to become a professional parkour athlete, stunt performer, and actress. She graduated from film school in Orlando and began training in parkour around 2014. Before that, she practised karate. Those disciplines would come to define her distinctive performance style. Her career in stunt work took off after she worked on NCIS: New Orleans, which led to her being short-listed for SAG-AFTRA. Her first significant feature film stunt double role was for Xochitl Gomez's character America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), on the reshoots. Beyond that high-profile film work, she's doubled and performed stunts across a range of TV and film projects. On television, she's doubled actors such as Chrissie Fit in Shining Vale (2023), Justina Machado in The Horror of Dolores Roach (2023), and Emily Morales-Cabrera in American Horror Stories (2022). She also performed on The Rookie: Feds (2023) and appeared in multiple episodes of NCIS: New Orleans (2017–2020), doubling both Jowin Marie Batoon and Raquel Dominguez. In film, besides Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she doubled Malia Baker in Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024). Lorena has also made numerous appearances in performance and reality contexts under her nickname "The Atomic Ant" (a moniker inspired by the 1960s cartoon Atom Ant): she competed on Total Knock Out with Kevin Hart (achieving third place), app…