Petra Massey (born, 1966 in England) is a British actress, and a physical theatre performer in stage, film and television. Petra is best known for British television playing the "enhanced human" Sandstrom in the BBC2 Sci-Fi comedy series Hyperdrive 2006-07.
She studied a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Trained with Philippe Gaulier and John Wright in London.
Massey has traveled the world performing both her street show and solo theatre show Panic. On return she joined stunt theatre/pyrotechnic company KKG in Switzerland and regularly somersaulted off motorbikes, dangled from 60ft cranes and was once shot from a fire-fuelled pond in a shopping trolley. There she met her Spanish, German and English cohorts and founded the physical theatre company Spymonkey, creating both Stiff and Cooped.
She returned from a three year contract performing at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino Las Vegas with Spymonkey in Cirque Du Soleil's erotic cabaret Zumanity.
Currently Massey is writing and developing a new Spymonkey show called Moby Dick which is being directed by Jos Houben. The show will tour the UK from Summer 2009.