Wesley Studi is a Cherokee American actor and film producer. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him #19 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
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Wesley Studi is a Cherokee American actor and film producer. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second North American Indigenous person to be honored by the Academy. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him #19 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Studi was born in a Cherokee family in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, a rural area in Cherokee County named after his mother’s family.
At the 90th Academy Awards, Studi introduced a tribute to military movies, giving part of his speech in the Cherokee language, of which he is a fluent speaker. He is the second Native American actor to present at the Academy Awards. Will Rogers in 1934 and Buffy Sainte-Marie, a First Nations living living actor in Canada, in 1983, were the first and second Indigenous people to receive an Oscar for acting specifically for acting. He went into acting after his first marriage ended in divorce; he left his first ranching job to study acting.
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