Tanoai Reed (born February 10, 1974) is a Hollywood stunt man and actor. He is the cousin and stunt double of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Reed was born in Honolulu, Hawaii of Samoan and Norwegian, Swedish, Irish descent. After the separation of his parents he grew up in California before being sent to live with his grandmother in Hawaii. He was educated at Kahuku High School and the University of Hawai‘i. His stunt career began when he worked on Waterworld, and he began working as stunt-double for the Rock on The Scorpion King.