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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.
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).
This is a list of Native American actors in the United States, including Alaskan Natives.. While Native American identity can be complex, it is rooted in political sovereignty that predates the creation of colonial nation states like the United States, Canada, and Mexico and persists into the 21st century recognized under international law by treaty.
To pay homage to the rich ancestry of Native Americans, it helps to know of current-day people who share in the heritage. With that in mind, we gathered this list of 20 famous Native Americans ...
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.
She has also acted in various television series, including Spin City, CSI, Strong Medicine, and The Sopranos. Rice played Sue Clearwater in the third installment of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (released in 2010), the fourth installment The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (released in 2011), and the fifth installment The Twilight Saga ...
Martin Sensmeier (born June 27, 1985) is an American actor and model.. Of Alaska Native and European American descent, he is known for playing various Native American roles. He starred in the 2016 remake The Magnificent Seven and had a recurring role as "Wanahton" in the HBO television series Westworld (2018).
Gilbert Birmingham (born July 13, 1953) [citation needed] is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater on the Paramount Network series Yellowstone (2018-24), George Hunter on Banshee (2014), Virgil White on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015-17), and Billy Black in The Twilight Saga film ...