11 Facts About Stacy Peralta

Stacy Douglas Peralta was born on October 15,1957 and is an American film director and entrepreneur.

Stacy Peralta was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the Zephyr Competition Team, known as the Z-Boys, from Venice, California.

At the age of 19, Stacy Peralta became the highest-ranked professional skateboarder.

In 1984, Stacy Peralta directed and produced the first-ever skate video, the Bones Brigade Video Show.

Stacy Peralta served as the Second Unit Director and Skating Technical Advisor in the 1989 film, Gleaming the Cube, directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater.

In 1992, Stacy Peralta left Powell-Stacy Peralta to direct and produce for television full-time.

Stacy Peralta directed Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary of the history of modern big wave surfing and tow-in surfing.

In 2012, Stacy Peralta produced Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which chronicles the Powell-Stacy Peralta skateboarding team of the same name.

In 2008, Stacy Peralta directed a series of television commercials for Burger King in which the Greenlandic Inuit, Transylvanians of Romania and Hmong of Thailand, known as "Whopper virgins" in the ads, were offered their first taste of a fast food hamburger and asked to compare Burger King's Whopper to McDonald's Big Mac.

Stacy Peralta subsequently came under attack for what some deemed exploitation of native peoples.

Stacy Peralta did cameo work for the game in which he played himself.