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Ty Anaya

  • Actor
  • Visual Effects
  • Stunts
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Ty Anaya watching dailies on the Oculus Rift
A Black teen discovers that he has superpowers during a life-or-death encounter with a police officer.
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Catch (2019)
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Ty Anaya was born Tyler Frederick Johnson to Annie and Gary Johnson on October 29th, 1987, in Shawnee, Kansas. He lived in Kansas with his family until the age of 11, when his father's employer (NCAA), moved their offices to Indianapolis, Indiana. While there, Ty attended Center Grove Middle School and High School and graduated in the top 75% of his nearly 800 students class.

He moved immediately following his graduation to Tucson, Arizona to eventually attend the University of Arizona. He began taking film classes, which then led to some minor acting roles at Pima Community College. His first theater role was John Proctor in the play The Crucible, and was the first major role Ty had achieved.

Ty continued his acting and film work, and eventually landed a consistently paid acting gig as an Actor/stuntman at the wild west theme park, Old Tucson. There he learned gun tricks, rope tricks, whipping, horse riding, proper full contact stunt fighting, and major falls as high as 30 feet. During the summers, he would work in the Art Department, helping to make props for the October event, Nightfall.

Ty moved to LA for a short while and worked on a number of different productions in that time. He worked for the companies Once Upon A Time Productions and New Deal Studios, doing work that included but not limited to building sets, painting, making props, transportation, and other various PA work.

In the beginning of 2018, Ty was promoted to stunt lead, having five other Actors/stuntmen working under him, and had even written and directed a dramatic gun fight show for the park.

Ty Anaya was married May 28th, 2018 to Jessi Lin Johnson. In June of that year, Ty spend his last months in Tucson filming With Teeth, a short film by Director Quin Davis and Ember Rose Entertainment.

He and his wife moved to Atlanta, Georgia at the beginning of July.

By the middle of August, Ty and Jessi had gotten jobs with Marvel studios, working in their Motion Capture department.
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    Known for

    Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski in The Tomorrow War (2021)
    The Tomorrow War
    6.6
    • Visual Effects
    • 2021
    Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Shahi, and Noah Centineo in Black Adam (2022)
    Black Adam
    6.2
    • Visual Effects(as Ty Anaya Johnson)
    • 2022
    Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx in Back in Action (2025)
    Back in Action
    5.9
    • Visual Effects(Crafty Apes)
    • 2025
    Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx in Strays (2023)
    Strays
    6.3
    • Visual Effects
    • 2023

    Credits

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    Actor



    • Not What I Teach the Children
      • Nathaniel
      • Post-production
      • Short



    • Payback: Movie 2024 (2024)
      Payback: Movie 2024
      • Wade
      • 2024
    • Chasity L. Jordan and Aleish Ramirez in Shiva (2020)
      Shiva
      Short
      • Darren Friedman
      • 2020
    • Bruce Marchiano in The Encounter (2016)
      The Encounter
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Seth
      • 2019
    • Matthew Davis, Peyton 'Alex' Smith, Kaylee Kaneshiro, Danielle Rose Russell, Jenny Boyd, Aria Shahghasemi, and Quincy Fouse in Since When Do You Speak Japanese? (2019)
      Legacies
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Bartender
      • 2019
    • Catch (2019)
      Catch
      Short
      • Peter
      • 2019
    • Michael Ochotorena in Payback (2019)
      Payback
      • Wade
      • 2019
    • Malerie Grady in Tough Love (2019)
      Tough Love
      TV Series
      • Speed Dater
      • 2019
    • Shatter
      Short
      • 2018
    • Charlie Grave (2018)
      Charlie Grave
      Short
      • Charlie Grave
      • 2018
    • Tiff Jensen in Janie (2017)
      Janie
      Short
      • The Companion
      • 2017
    • The Deputy (2017)
      The Deputy
      6.6
      Short
      • Outlaw Samuel L Montgomery
      • 2017
    • The West and the Ruthless (2017)
      The West and the Ruthless
      4.8
      • 2017
    • Cassidy Red (2017)
      Cassidy Red
      4.6
      • Deputy Lefty
      • 2017
    • Legends & Lies (2015)
      Legends & Lies
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Dave Tutt
      • 2015
    • The Mission (2014)
      The Mission
      Short
      • Sergeant George Martinez
      • 2014

    Visual Effects



    • Jessica Craig in Operation Dark Site (2025)
      Operation Dark Site
      Short
      • Data Wrangler
      • 2025
    • Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx in Back in Action (2025)
      Back in Action
      5.9
      • data wrangler: Crafty Apes
      • 2025
    • Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx in Strays (2023)
      Strays
      6.3
      • visual effects lead data wrangler
      • 2023
    • Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Shahi, and Noah Centineo in Black Adam (2022)
      Black Adam
      6.2
      • assistant data wrangler (as Ty Anaya Johnson)
      • 2022
    • Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski in The Tomorrow War (2021)
      The Tomorrow War
      6.6
      • visual effects witness camera operator
      • 2021
    • Andrew Lincoln in The Walking Dead (2010)
      The Walking Dead
      8.1
      TV Series
      • data wrangler
      • 2021
    • Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Kat Dennings, Kathryn Hahn, Randall Park, and Teyonah Parris in WandaVision (2021)
      WandaVision
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • visual effects junior wrangler
      • 2021

    Stunts



    • Not What I Teach the Children
      • stunts
      • Post-production
      • Short



    • Chasity L. Jordan and Aleish Ramirez in Shiva (2020)
      Shiva
      Short
      • stunt coordinator
      • 2020
    • Tiff Jensen in Janie (2017)
      Janie
      Short
      • stunt performer
      • 2017
    • The Deputy (2017)
      The Deputy
      6.6
      Short
      • stunts
      • 2017

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    Catch | Official Trailer
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    Catch | Official Trailer

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      • Tyler Anaya

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