Marcus Shakesheff, nicknamed 'Marcus Monkey' for his acrobatic ability, is a Wales-based stunt performer, stunt coordinator, actor and director with more than fifteen years in the film and television industry. His stunt and fight-choreography credits include HBO's 'Game of Thrones', the 'Sherlock Holmes' films, 'American Assassin', 'The King's Man', Amazon's 'Hanna' and FX's 'The Bastard Executioner'. He won the Taurus World Stunt Award for Best Stunt Coordinator for his work on 'Wonder Woman', with further nominations for 'American Assassin' and 'Wonder Woman' in fight-choreography categories.
An ex-semi-professional fighter with a background in full-contact Bare Knuckle Karate, Thai boxing and amateur boxing, Shakesheff has held multiple regional and national titles, including Welsh, English and European open full-contact competition wins. He made his feature directing debut with 'Kamikaze', described as the first martial arts action movie made in Wales, and founded his own production company, Beat 'Em Up Films.
Legacy content on this page long described him as being 'from Newport', but that specific claim could not be independently verified from currently available sources — he is consistently reported simply as a long-standing, Wales-based member of the stunt industry, and it is on that basis that his Welsh connection is recorded here.