Billy Merasty
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- 1 gennaio 1960 · Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
Biografia
Billy Merasty is an actor, playwright, Cree translator, and language keeper. He was born to Viola and Pierre Merasty in 1960 in Brochet, Manitoba. His grandfather was Joe Highway, a famous caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. He moved to Toronto at age eighteen in search for his uncle René Highway, who was at the time working for the Toronto Dance Theatre. At age twenty-three Billy launched his acting career after graduating from the Native Theatre School for aspiring Indigenous artists. He then went on to work for the renowned Indigenous performing arts company Native Earth Performing Arts. Billy has worked as a film, television, and stage actor for decades and notably played the first Indigenous gay character on television on the CBC series, Liberty Street, in the role of Nathan. Billy received the Order of Manitoba (Order of the Buffalo Hunt) in recognition for his many years as an Indigenous role model in 2010.
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Filmografia
- Aberdeen · Alfred
- Café Daughter · Amos Horseknife
- Acting Good · Roger Laughingstick
- Ananghoonska · Auntie 1
- SkyMed · Glen
- The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw · William Bearclaw
- It - Capitolo due · Shokopiwah Man
- Diggstown · Chief Thomas
- Falls Around Her · Draven
- Cardinal · Billy Ralph Northwind
- Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights · John Norton
- Moby Dick · Tashtego
- Il gioco dei soldi · Bartender
- Luci d'inverno · Jacob
- Elijah · Elijah Harper
- I misteri di Murdoch · Gravekeeper Gary Cardinal
- Mixed Blessings · Mark
- Moose TV
- L'ultimo pellerossa · Young Man Afraid
- Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis · John Cree
- The New World - Il nuovo mondo · Kiskiak
- The Big White · Cam
- I nuovi eroi · Owashak
- Wonderfalls · Jerry
- This Is Wonderland · Brian Perot (as William Merasty)
- Stardom
- Il Virginiano · Lee Talltrees
- Relic Hunter · Inuit Hunter
- War of 1812 · John Norton
- Honey Moccasin · Zachary John
- Le Confessionnal · Moose
- Pocahontas - La leggenda · Kocoum
- Les Légendes du Grand Nord · Mawaki
- Liberty Street · Nathan Jones
- No Price Too High
- Exotica · Man at Opera
- X-Rated · Nathan Jones
- Un padre per Adam · Frank Cree
- Heritage Minutes · John Norton
- The Shaman's Source · Mathew Hare
- Justice Denied · Donald Marshall, Jr.
- Red Earth, White Earth
- American Experience · Warrior