Actor-stuntwoman Toni Vaz has died on October 04. She was 101. A cause of death is yet to be determined.
Vaz shifted from the East Coast to Los Angeles to become an actor and stunt performer in the 1950s, and her move proved successful as she got cast as an extra in director Joseph M Newman's film Tarzan, the Ape Man. The 1959 release features Vaz in a sequence opposite MGM's Leo the Lion. With a film credit to her name, Vaz then went on to work in the Eartha Kitt and Sammy Davis Jr starrer Anna Lucasta, released in 1958, and director Henry Koster's 1966 film The Singing Nun.
Vaz did further stunt work in feature films and became one of the first few African-American women to do so. Vaz appeared as a stunt double for Cicely Tyson for the television series Mission: Impossible. Of late, she worked in the MPTF series Reel Stories, Real Lives.
