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by NavajoFilmmaker | created - 27 Aug 2015 | updated - 27 Aug 2015 | PublicList of actresses that I've recommend and have worked with and know personally in the Native American Community.
1. Kimberly Guerrero
Actress | The Glorias
Kimberly is a Native American actor who has enjoyed a long career in film, television, and theatre. Some of Kimberly's recent credits include playing "Auntie B" in FX on the hit comedy RESERVATION DOGS, "Katie Clarke" opposite Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer in the lauded Amazon/BBC limited series ...
American Indian - Kimberly is of mix blood tribal nations: Colville (enrolled), Salish-Kootenai and Cherokee. She is well know as Jerry Seinfeld's love interest in Seinfeld's episode of "Cigar Store Indian."
2. Geraldine Keams
Actress | Reservation Dogs
Geraldine Keams was born in Arizona, USA. She is an actress, known for Reservation Dogs (2021), Rutherford Falls (2021) and Dark Winds (2022).
American Indian - Geri is from the Navajo Nation. She started acting at a young age as an extra in filming around the four-corners area. She worked with Client Eastwood and Chief Dan George in cult classic "The Outlaw Josey Wales." She continues to act and is also a storyteller to young children.
3. Tamara Podemski
Actress | Outer Range
Tamara Podemski is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto to an Ojibway mother from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan and an Ashkenazi father from Israel. She is a graduate of the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts where she studied theatre, dance and music throughout its...
4. Princess Daazhraii Johnson
Producer | Molly of Denali
Princess Daazhraii Johnson is known for Molly of Denali (2019), Big Miracle (2012) and Jericho (2006).
American Indian - Princess (Lucaj) Daazhraii Johnson, the former executive director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee in Alaska. Not only an activist for rights, she is also a theater and screenwriter writer.
5. Irene Bedard
Actress | Pocahontas
Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an Alaska Native actress enrolled in the Native Village of Koyuk who has played many American Indian characters in a variety of television shows and films. She is best known for her voice role as the title character in the Disney animated film "Pocahontas," and ...
6. Happy Frejo
Director | My Darkest Hour
Happy Frejo is known for My Darkest Hour (2006), The Veil (2017) and Wild Indian (2021).
American Indian - Happy is from the Pawnee tribe in Oklahoma. Her talents range from acting, dancing and singing. She is also a pow-wow shawl dancer.
7. Misty Upham
Actress | August: Osage County
Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen ...
American Indian - Misty is from the Blackfeet Nation. Misty was an extremely talented actress that we lost in 2014.
8. Delanna Studi
Actress | DreamKeeper
Delanna Studi was born on June 4, 1976 in Muldrow, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for DreamKeeper (2003), Edge of America (2004) and Shameless (2011).
American Indian - Delanna is Cherokee from Oklahoma. She is not only an actress, but also a writer and theater performer.
9. Sheila Tousey
Actress | Ravenous
Born in Keshena, Wisconsin, Tousey is a Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee Native American, raised on both the Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. A professional dancer and actress, Tousey began doing pow wows as a small child but did not perform on stage until she attended the University ...
10. Casey Camp-Horinek
Actress | Barking Water
Casey Camp-Horinek is known for Barking Water (2009), Behind the Door of a Secret Girl (2014) and DreamKeeper (2003).
11. Andrea Good
Actress | Warrior Woman
Native American Actress.Navajo/Apache/Zia Nation born in Arizona raised in New Mexico/Denver Co. Started in theater and moved to Television and Film.Acting is her Passion she continues to follow her dream with all the film and Television coming to New Mexico. Working with the best film has to bring...
12. Tantoo Cardinal
Actress | Wind River
Actress Tantoo Cardinal is a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian honors. The order recognizes Cardinal for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in Canada.
Arguably the most widely recognized Native Actress of her generation, ...
13. Crystle Lightning
Actress | Trickster
Crystle Lightning, the Canadian Screen Award Winner for "Best Actress in a Drama Series" 2021, is an Indigenous Actress from the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta. She began her career at age nine when she landed her first lead role in the feature: 3 NINJAS: Knuckle Up and has been working in the ...
First Nation - Crystle is Cree from Canada. She currently lives in Los Angeles and also has the talent of signing and DJ's around the LA area.
14. Cindy Long
Actress | Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer
Cindy Long is a Native American and is an enrolled tribal member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma and a descendant of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Cindy grew her love of the arts as a young child. She learned to play the violin and as a young dancer, she was awarded a partial scholarship ...
15. Sahar Khadjenoury
Actress | Juarez 2045
Sahar Khadjenoury is known for Juarez 2045 (2017), The AUX: Aboriginal Unity Experience (2015) and 5th World (2005).
Not only is she stunningly beautiful with a mix of Navajo & Persian, she is a sweetheart. Sahar is also a model and inspiring filmmaker.
16. Michelle Thrush
Actress | Pathfinder
Michelle Thrush is a Canadian actress and First Nations activist for Aboriginal Canadians and the other Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Thrush, who is Cree, was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, by parents she admits were chronic alcoholics. She recalls being called "Squaw" at Bowness...
17. Elaine Miles
Actress | Northern Exposure
Elaine Miles was born on April 7, 1960 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for Northern Exposure (1990), Smoke Signals (1998) and Wyvern (2009).
American Indian - Elaine is tribal member of the Cayuse and Nez Perce Tribes. She is also a very funny comedian traveling around the Rez circuit - if she comes to your state, see her!
18. Shirley Cheechoo
Actress | Backroads
Shirley Cheechoo was born in 1952 in Eastmain, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Backroads (2000), Silent Tears (1997) and Sweet Blood: Live Well with Diabetes (2009). She is married to Blake Debassige. They have one child.
First Nation - Shirley is a Cree actress, writer, producer, director, and visual artist, best known for her solo-voice or monodrama play Path With No Moccasins, as well as her work with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig theatre group.
19. Gail Maurice
Actress | ROSIE
Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning filmmaker. She created her own company Assini Productions to tell stories that highlight strong Indigenous female leads. She translates and speaks her language whenever she can on the big and little screen.
She translated and ...
First Nation - Gail Is a Métis director/writer/producer and actor and can proudly speak in the Cree/Michif language.
20. Georgina Lightning
Actress | Older Than America
Georgina Lightning brings a long track record of creative experience in the film industry as an actor, producer, director and acting coach on such projects as: Dreamkeepers, Backroads, Johnny Greyeyes, Christmas in the Clouds, Tecumseh, the Oath and Smoke Signals among countless others. Lightning ...
21. Shishonia Livingston
Actress | The Box
Shishonia Livingston is a Los Angeles based comedian, actor and writer. As a stand-up comic she has performed her own original material widely at theaters, colleges and clubs across the US and Canada. Also her improv and sketch comedy background began at IO West, Second City and Groundlings. She ...
22. Roseanne Supernault
Actress | Cold Road
Nôses Kisik-Papimohtew (Mother Walks-in-the-Sky), also known as Roseanne Supernault, is a classically trained Actress who was raised on East Prairie Métis Settlement, and also hails from the Whitefish Lake Atikameg First Nation in the Treaty 8 territory of Canada. Born in the Treaty 8 territory to ...
23. Rachelle White Wind Arbez
Actress | XIII: The Movie
Rachelle White Wind Arbez is known for XIII: The Conspiracy (2008), Elijah (2007) and Moccasin Flats (2003).
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