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Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (born August 8, 1993) is a Mohawk actress. For her performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), she garnered a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Actress. [1] In 2023 and 2024, for her role on Reservation Dogs, she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. [2] [3]
Devery Jacobs was born and raised in Kahnawa:ke Mohawk Territory and is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. Her breakout leading role in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) landed her a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, known professionally as Devery Jacobs, is an award-winning Indigenous actor and filmmaker, born and raised in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, a reservation in Quebec,...
Devery Jacobs was born and raised in Kahnawa:ke Mohawk Territory and is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. Her breakout leading role in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) landed her a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
As a transmasculine Quechua Qariwarmi writer, their work focuses on transgender health and wellness. The 30-year-old actor shattered Indigenous stereotypes in Reservation Dogs. Now, she’s ready to tell her own authentic queer stories in Backspot.
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Devery Jacobs achieved national recognition by playing the lead role of Aila in the 2013 film Rhymes for Young Ghouls. Set in a fictional Indigenous reserve in Canada in 1976, the teenage Aila undertakes unusual and risky actions to fight the residential school system.
Devery Jacobs is changing the game — and prying the door open for others in the process. From her lauded work on Reservation Dogs to her new film This Place, Jacobs is blazing her own...
Devery Jacobs Wants to Be the Change in Hollywood. The star of Reservation Dogs almost called it quits before the FX show came along. Now she’s determined to build a better future for her...
During an acceptance speech at Them’s third annual Now Awards, Backspot star Devery Jacobs opened up about her journey to feel at home in the queer community, and spoke to the “safety and support” she has found along the way.