10 On-Set Injuries That Forever Changed Actors
1. Olivia Jackson – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
South African stunt actor Olivia Jackson was enjoying a successful career scoring work in the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy, Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens when a stunt gone horribly wrong resulted in a life-threatening accident.
In 2015, Jackson was working as a stunt double for Milla Jovovich on the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter when the motorcycle she was driving helmetless collided with a camera crane. The crash left her with a long list of injuries including a punctured lung, a partially crushed and degloved face, a paralysed left arm, a severed main artery, brain trauma and five nerves torn out of her spinal cord.
Doctors deemed her condition so serious she was put in a medically induced coma for 17 days. Amazingly, Jackson survived her injuries but ended up having her paralysed arm amputated a few months after the accident and was left with a twisted upper body after undergoing several spinal operations.