Appreciation to all veterans & Cherokees who’ve served. It was during this era that he began acting at The American Indian Theatre Company in Tulsa in 1983, where he found both the adrenaline rush he craved and the cathartic release he needed. With only 12 months of his six-year service left, Wes volunteered to go to Vietnam. It was shot in Virginia. [2] Studi married Maura Dhu, and they moved their family to a farm near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1990s. “Fleshing out a historical figure depends on how much research you do and how, as an actor, you put it into effect,” he says. That interpretation of the iconic villain of James Fenimore Cooper’s historical novel transformed Magua into the almost heroic figure of Michael Mann’s Mohicans and launched Studi’s career. 2013: Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers - Western Heritage Award, Oklahoma City, OK, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 04:31. Er wuchs in einem Indianerreservat auf. In 1990 Studi was cast in the role of a Pawnee warrior in the popular Western “Dances with Wolves”. “[He] was a man who actually influenced history.”, Studi takes the responsibility of portraying historical figures seriously. And my iPad. He joined AIM; marched on Washington, D.C., in 1972 in the Trail of Broken Treaties; and a year later participated in the occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. He served one tour in South Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta, living his own future war stories. Aside from acting, Studi is also an accomplished musician, who plays bass and guitar in the band Firecat of Discord, in which his wife is the lead singer. He had a role in the play The Royal Hunt of the Sun for the American Indian Theater Company. He similarly sees Gall, a member of one of the Algonquin tribes, as an AIM veteran who has taken another path later in life. Even with so much acclaim for these and many other movie roles, Studi continues to walk the way of the activist and educator. Im Jahr 1967 meldete er sich als Freiwilliger zur US Army und diente 18 Monate im Vietnamkrieg. It is, of course, the onscreen visage. Over the course of his multifacted life, Studi has helped start a bilingual Cherokee newspaper. Yes, it's really me. Spoke only the Cherokee language prior to attending grade school. Wes Studi, Santa Fe. Two years later he portrayed Magua in Michael Mann’s “The Last of the Mohicans”, and 1993 saw him playing the title character in “Geronimo: An American Legend”, portraying the legendary Chiricahua Apache leader. Your email address will not be published. Wes went on to play the title character in the Walter Hill-directed film “Geronimo: An American Legend” (1993) alongside veteran actors Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, for which he won a Western Heritage Award. Studi’s most recent film roles were in the 2015 “The Red Road” and “The Condemned 2”, and his last television appearance was in the 2016 horror series “Penny Dreadful”. Studi may see a little of his old activist self in the character. “At that time in history you were either in or out.” Although he was all in, that particular path didn’t prove his calling. Interestingly, acting was never a goal in Wes’ youth. Studi attended Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma, matriculating in 1964, and later enrolled at Northeastern University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He served one tour in South Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division, at one point being pinned down with his company in the Mekong Delta and nearly being killed by friendly fire. Two children, by wife Rebecca Graves, named Daniel and Leah. As a testament to his work in film, television, and stage reflecting the American West, Studi was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Western Performers in 2013, only the second Native American actor — after Jay Silverheels for his work as Tonto in TV’s The Lone Ranger — to be so honored. Wes Studi, Santa Fe, NM. The decade following Geronimo saw Studi branching out into more modern roles, starring as the eye-patch wearing black-market arms dealer Sagat in the video game turned Jean-Claude Van Damme action film Street Fighter, and working again with The Last of the Mohicans director Michael Mann as Al Pacino’s partner, Detective Casals, in the 1995 crime thriller Heat. Studi was born Wesley Studi in a Cherokee family in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, a rural area in Tahlequah named after his mother's family. Studi promotes healthy living among Native Americans Studi appeared in his first film, The Trial of Standing Bear, in 1988. With Kevin Makely, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Dern, Wes Studi. Seit 2002 spielte er in drei Fernsehverfilmungen nach Romanen von Tony Hillerman den Navajo-Polizisten Joe Leaphorn. Wes Studi, Santa Fe, NM. Wesley Studie was born on 17 December, 1947 in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma USA; his father was a ranch hand called Andy, while his mother Maggie was a housekeeper, and he has three brothers named Bob, Andy Lee and Calvin. By 1987, he had moved to Los Angeles, where he quickly landed a small role as Buff in the Cheyenne rez road trip story Powwow Highway (1989), followed by memorable supporting roles as “the toughest Pawnee,” a scalping and torturing nameless killer in Dances With Wolves (1990), and as “Indian in the desert” in the rock biopic The Doors (1991). As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is … But before being violently dispatched to his uncertain fate, Gall makes a comment that seems to carry a hint of Studi autobiography: “You don’t get to choose who you are — it’s in your blood.”. Für diese Rolle erhielt er im Jahr 1994 – gemeinsam mit einigen anderen Beteiligten – den Western Heritage Award. Directed by Justin Lee. On June 11, 2010, Wes Studi visited Yakama Nation Legends Casino, located in Toppenish, Washington to MC the Casino's Tribal Jam IV event. After his arrest at Wounded Knee, Studi decided to channel his activism back home, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. This was part of a group of productions shown over 14 months on TNT as its "Native American initiative", including three television movies and several documentaries. He’s taught his first language, Cherokee, in the Cherokee community. In 2020, he received an Academy Honorary Award,[3] becoming the first Native American and the second North American Indigenous person to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie). In the early period of the decade, he portrayed Lt. Joe Leaphom in a series Robert Redford’s films based on Tony Hillerman’s books -“Skinwalkers”, “Coyote Waits” and “A Thief of Time”, and went on to land roles in a number of prestigious films, including “The New World”, “Street Fighter”, “Three Priests”, “Avatar”, and “The Only Good Indian”, serving as executive producer in the latter movie.
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