Wes Studi
Acting
December 17, 1947
Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.
Movies
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
Avatar
2009
Heat
1995
Soul
2020
Dances with Wolves
1990
Undisputed
2002
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Street Fighter
1994
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
2006
The Doors
1991
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Hostiles
2017
Road to Redemption
2001
Coyote Waits
2003
Badland
2019
El Camino
2008
Wind River
2000
Deep Rising
1998
Seraphim Falls
2007
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
TV Shows
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Mentalist
2008
American Experience
1988
American Experience
1988
Highlander: The Series
1992
Hell on Wheels
2011
The Flash
1990
Penny Dreadful
2014
In Plain Sight
2008
Miracle Workers
2019
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
2022
Saving Grace
2007
Into the West
2005
Reservation Dogs
2021
Promised Land
1996
Woke
2020
Kings
2009
The Directors
1999
UC: Undercover
2001