Biography

Shero Rauf is an Iraqi actor and stuntman. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq on 15 May 1979. After a year the family came back to his homeland Sulaimaniya.

After 20 years living and learning in Sulaimaniya and Arbil he left Iraq to try an pursue his career. His first step was in 2002 when he met Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal in which he later featured in his first movie role Epoch: Evolution (2003) with David Keith and Billy Dee Williams .

In the same year he had been chosen as a stunt actor for the movie Troy (2004), as a Trojan Archer facing Brad Pitt in Mexico.

From 2004 he began to work like a Digital Effects Artist [Animation, Particles, Dynamic, Modeling] for several movies.

In May 2006 he became a visual effects lead artist for the biggest movie that had been done in WWFX company The Gene Generation (2007).

In 2006 he had the chance to work like a 3D Digital Artist in the movie 88 Minutes (2007) with his favorite actor Al Pacino.

In 2007 Jean-Claude Van Damme introduced him to J.J. Perry (fight choreographer) and (stunt coordinator), and he had his first real training to become a stuntman, later he had the chance to be face to face in the same scene with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the movie The Shepherd (2008).

In August 2007 after one month test period he became an A.D "Assistant Director" for the movie The Tournament (2009) working with Ving Rhames Robert Carlyle and Kelly Hu.
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