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Benjamin "Ben" Peter Jensen (born 19 July 1973; age 50) is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Jensen started his stunt career in the late '70s with the television pilot BJ and the Bear (1978). Among the actors he has doubled for are Ben Affleck (1999 in Dogma), Jason Mewes (2001 in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), and Rick Schroeder (2002 in Poolhall Junkies). Jensen served as stunt coordinator for films such as The Tempest (1998, with John Glover and John Pyper-Ferguson), Deal of a Lifetime (1999), One Man's Hero (1999), The Deep End (2001), and Stark Raving Mad (2002, along Greg Barnett).

In Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000), Jensen portrayed a stunt Sabretooth cop. The film features Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Bruce Davison, Scott Leva, and stunts by Troy Brenna. In X2 (2002), Jensen worked as stunt rigger.

In the '80s, he performed stunts in Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983, with Pete Turner), Legmen (1984, starring Bruce Greenwood), The Return of the Living Dead (1985, with stunts by Erik Cord, Ralph Garrett, Kim Robert Koscki, Joel Kramer, Paula Moody, Bernie Pock, and Brian J. Williams), Evil Dead II (1987), Programmed to Kill (1987, with Chuck Hicks and B.J. Davis), the action film Commando Squad (1987), Miracle Mile (1988, with Denise Crosby and Robert DoQui, and stunts by Stephen R. Hudis, Ken Lesco, and Dennis Madalone), and Riding the Edge (1989).

Further stunt credits in the '90s include Tremors (1990, with George Colucci and Jeff Imada), Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991, with Claudette Nevins and Alan Oppenheimer), Barton Fink (1991), the television series Crossroads (1991), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The River Wild (1994), Deadly Games (1995, starring Christopher Lloyd), Hard Time (1996), Last Man Standing (1996), Asteroid (1997), Bella Mafia (1997, with Gina Philips and stunts by Leslie Hoffman), Godzilla (1998), and Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil (1998, with Mickey Cottrell, Bruce Davison, and stunts by Dustin Courtney, Lane Leavitt, and Ken Bates).

Since 2000, Jensen performed stunts in American Virgin (2000, along John Gillespie and Dana Hee), The Right Temptation (2000, with Joanna Cassidy and stunts by Al Jones and Cole McKay), Stranded (2001), the drama Beyond the City Limits (2001, with stunts by Joey Anaya and Noby Arden), The Scorpion King (2002, starring The Rock), and Bringing Down the House (2003, with Randy Oglesby, Michael Ensign, and stunts by Elle Alexander). He also worked as stunt rigger on several episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2001-2003), where he worked along Trek stunt performers Edward Conna, Christopher Leps, Scott Workman, Kevin Derr, Troy Brenna, Mike Mukatis, Theo Kypri, and Mark Wagner.

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