Zoë Bell has spent the better part of 25 years being other people — at speed, on fire and 20-odd stories above the ground. She has been Xena. She has been Uma Thurman’s Bride. She has been Sharon Stone falling 23 stories onto an airbag “the size of a stamp.” She has also had a career like no other: a girl from a small island off a small country, with no film industry connections, who vaulted into Hollywood; a woman making her way through a male-dominated profession that has only just begun to get its due; a performer who became...