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Wes Studi

  • Birthplace: Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, USA
  • Birthday: December 17, 1947

This often intimidating but charismatic and ruggedly handsome actor of full-blooded Cherokee heritage enhanced several thoughtful Hollywood Westerns of the 1990s by thoroughly embodying roles that would have once been mere stereotypes and imbuing them with depth and dignity. The intense and muscular Studi first gained attention playing the "toughest" of the Pawnees in Kevin Costner's ambitious and well-meaning revisionist work "Dances With Wolves" (1990). He also lent his powerful presence to Oliver Stone's "The…more

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Career Milestones

  • 2005

    Cast in the Terrence Malick-scripted drama "The New World," about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers

  • 2005

    Co-starred in the Steven Spielberg produced "Into the West" (TNT)

  • 2002

    Starred alongside Adam Beach in the PBS "Mystery!" production "Skinwalkers", directed by Chris Eyre

  • 1998

    Appeared in "Deep Rising"

  • 1995

    TV miniseries debut, "Larry McMurtry's 'Streets of Laredo'", a sequel to "Lonesome Dove"

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Awards

  • 1999

    First Americans in the Arts Artist of the Decade Award:

  • 1999

    First Americans in the Arts Award: Best Leading Actor

  • 1998

    First Americans in the Arts Award: Best Actor in a Nontraditional Role

  • 1998

    First Americans in the Arts Award: Best Supporting Actor

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