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Joanelle Romero

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Joanelle Romero
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Joanelle Romero is an actress, award-winning director, producer and distributor of independent film. Joanelle is the first Native Indigenous filmmaker to be short-listed for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Branch for her film American Holocaust: When Its All Over I'll Still Be Indian. At age 18, Joanelle was cast in her first leading role in the CBS television movie The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977). That film marked the first time a Native actress carried a leading role in a contemporary movie. She went on to study at Lee Strasberg Actors Studio in Hollywood. She is CEO, founder, president of Red Nation Celebration Institute, Red Nation International Film Festival, Native Women in Film & Television on All Media, Red Nation Television Network. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and was one the first Native women to be invited (2016).

Joanelle is born of Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache, Dinétah, Paiute, and SpanishSephardic. A relative of Pawnee, Pojoaque, Southern Ute, Lakota and Haudenosaunee. Joanelle's father was born on the Jicarilla Reservation and her great-grandma from her mother's father side was born on the Mescalero Reservation. She has two adult children, graduates of Yale University and Berklee College of Music.

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the first of three children, mother Rita Rogers and father Robert Romero. Joanelle grew up in to the entertainment industry. At age 3, she acted with her mother and grandfather in plays in New Mexico. In the 60's, Joanelle's mother was signed to Universal Studios and was in nine Elvis Presley films. At age 9, Joanelle used to go to the set on MGM Lot with her mother and hang out with Elvis and Nancy Sinatra, where she learned her love for filmmaking. As a young girl at age 12, Dennis Hopper became her 'legal guardian' in order for her to live at the Mable Dodge Luhan home, which Dennis Hopper owned at the time, Joanelle continued living with him throughout her teen years. Joanelle and Leonard Cohen (poet) began dating in her early 20's and later lived together. Leonard went on to produce Joanelle's first recordings at A & M Records. Joanelle was the first artist that Leonard Cohen produced.
BornOctober 5, 1957
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Known for

Powwow Highway (1988)
Powwow Highway
7.2
  • Bonnie Red Bow(as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • 1988
The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977)
The Girl Called Hatter Fox
8.7
TV Movie
  • Hatter Fox(as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • 1977
American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian (2000)
American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian
Video
  • Director
  • 2000
Tim McGraw, Ricky Schroder, Eddie Spears, and Julia Jones in Black Cloud (2004)
Black Cloud
5.8
  • Victoria Nez
  • 2004

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Actress

  • Wild Indian (2021)
    Wild Indian
  • Tim McGraw, Ricky Schroder, Eddie Spears, and Julia Jones in Black Cloud (2004)
    Black Cloud
  • Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder (1996)
    Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder
    • (as Joanelle Nadine Romero)
  • Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)
    Murder, She Wrote
    • (as Joanelle Nadine Romero)
  • Miracle in the Wilderness (1991)
    Miracle in the Wilderness
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • Powwow Highway (1988)
    Powwow Highway
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • Vendetta (1986)
    Vendetta
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • Rae Dawn Chong, John Stockwell, and Darrell Larson in City Limits (1984)
    City Limits
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • The Mystic Warrior (1984)
    The Mystic Warrior
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • The Horse Dealer's Daughter
    • (as Joanelle Nadine Romero)
  • Cutter to Houston (1983)
    Cutter to Houston
    • (as Joanelle Nadine Romero)
  • Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982)
    Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • Robert Clohessy, Michael Warren, and Bruce Weitz in Hill Street Blues (1981)
    Hill Street Blues
    • (as Joanelle Nadine Romero)
  • Parasite (1982)
    Parasite
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
  • Gary Busey and Willie Nelson in Barbarosa (1982)
    Barbarosa
    • (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)

Director

  • Let's Hear Your Funny
  • 23rd RNCI Red Nation Awards Show
  • 2013 RNCI Red Nation Awards Show
  • American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian (2000)
    American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian

Producer

  • Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas in On Sacred Ground (2023)
    On Sacred Ground
  • Let's Hear Your Funny
  • 23rd RNCI Red Nation Awards Show
  • The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer (2018)
    The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
  • 2013 RNCI Red Nation Awards Show
  • American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian (2000)
    American Holocaust: When It's All Over I'll Still Be Indian
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Hills St Blues
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    • October 5, 1957
    • Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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    • Joanelle Romero is born of Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache, Dinétah, Paiute, and is SpanishSephardic. A relative of Pawnee, Pojoaque, Southern Ute, Lakota and Haudenosaunee.

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