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Kiowa Joseph Gordon is a Native American actor of Hualapai heritage. He is best known for his role as shapeshifter Embry Call in The Twilight Saga, as well as Junior in the TV series The Red Road. Since 2022, Gordon has played Jim Chee in the AMC series Dark Winds.
The Twilight series led to other major film roles, including that of Sheriff Johnny Cortez in Love Ranch (with Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren), and Cal Bishnik in Shouting Secrets (with The Twilight Saga: New Moon castmate Chaske Spencer). In September 2011, Birmingham appeared in the film Crooked Arrows, cast in the role of Ben Logan. [10]
Taylor Daniel Lautner [1] [2] (/ ˈ l aʊ t n ər / LOWT-nər; [3] born February 11, 1992) is an American actor and martial artist. [4] He is best known for playing werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012) and Sharkboy in the film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005).
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, ... 25 Famous Native Americans to Know, From Actors to Country Singers and Beyond ... also played the role of Billy Black in The Twilight Saga. Steve ...
Chaske Spencer is an American actor. He gained prominence through his role as Sam Uley in the Twilight films (2009–2012). For his performance in the BBC and Amazon Prime series The English (2022), he was nominated for a British Academy Television Award.
The second film, The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) is based on the first book's sequel (2006). [2] It was directed by Chris Weitz. The third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, directed by David Slade, was released on June 30, 2010. [3] and is based on the third installment in the series (2007).
Jacob Black is a character in the Twilight book series by Stephenie Meyer. He is described as an attractive Native American of the Quileute tribe in La Push, near Forks, Washington. In the second book of the series, New Moon, he discovers that he is a therianthrope who can shapeshift into a wolf.
In fact, the percentage of Native American roles did not exceed one percent across any of the years evaluated, yet Natives are roughly 1.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the census.