Daniel Pesina
American martial artist
丹尼尔·佩斯纳
- Born
- 1 December 1958, Chicago
- Citizenship
- United States
- Sport
- martial arts
- Occupation
- martial artist, actor
Daniel Pesina (born December 1, 1959) is an American motion capture video game martial artist, and a former freelance employee of Midway.
Pesina was born in Chicago, Illinois to Mexican born parents and has studied martial arts since the age of 10.
Pesina started his work as an extra in martial arts films, appearing as one of Shredder's foot soldiers in the 1991 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
A lifelong friend of designer John Tobias, Pesina was brought by him to work in a fighting game featuring digitized characters, 1992's Mortal Kombat, where he played Johnny Cage and ninja characters Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile, and served as a martial arts coordinator for the game. Then in Mortal Kombat II he reprised his roles from the previous game, also playing the roles of Smoke, and Noob Saibot.
Awards and honours
- Illinois Martial Arts Hall of Fame 2005
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.