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Most Famous Indigenous Native Actors/Actresses
- Tantoo Cardinal. Actress. Director. ...
- Wes Studi. Actor. Producer. ...
- Adam Beach. Actor. Producer. ...
- Michael Greyeyes. Actor. Director. ...
- Ashley Callingbull. Actress The Great Salish Heist (2024) ...
- Roseanne Supernault. Actress. ...
- Paulina Alexis. Actress Reservation Dogs (2021–2023) ...
- Devery Jacobs. Actress.
Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek). Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright and author who became the first-ever Native American Poet Laureate in 2022. Her flagship poem “American Sunrise,” tells the struggle between the contemporary world and Indigenous identity.
Graham Greene. Born into an Oneida family on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Greene has been a working actor since the 1970s, with nearly 200 screen roles to his credit. His Oscar nomination, for supporting actor in 1990, was for the role of Kicking Bird in “Dances with Wolves,” for which he learned to speak Lakota.
A century ago, mourners lined the streets of Paris, watching as black horses pulled flower-laden floats and a coach carried the coffin of Sarah Bernhardt, the woman widely considered the first modern celebrity.
Bennelong. Bennelong, born c1764 of the Wangal people, is one of the most notable Aboriginal people in the early history of Australia. Also known as Wolarwaree, Ogultroyee and Vogeltroya, he was one of the first to live with the settlers, to be 'civilised' into the European way of life and to enjoy its 'benefits'.