Joshua Odjick
Birthday: Born in in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor from Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Pasmay in the 2021 film Wildhood, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joshua Odjick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Little Bird
Character: Henry / Niizh Little Bird
As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them....
Three Pines
Character: Tommy Kis
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the seemingly idyllic village of Three Pines and uncover the buried secrets of its eccentric residents. In the process, Gamache is forced to confront buried secrets of his own. Based on the novels by Louise Penny....
Unsettled
Character: Myles Keetch
Urban, Indigenous adoptee Rayna Keetch grew up with no connection to her Indigenous roots. Recently reunited with her birth family, Rayna is about to return to her First Nation for a traditional homecoming ceremony when her husband Darryl announces that he's been a victim of a scam and has lost their fortune....
Der Schwarm
Character: Leon Anawak
Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction....
NCIS: Origins
Character: Young Témet Téngalkat
In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks....
IT: Welcome to Derry
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Prequel to IT beginning in 1960s also covering origins of Pennywise the Clown....
Movie Credits
Wildhood
Character: Pasmay
Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage....
Bones of Crows
Character: Jake Whallach
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future....
Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat
Character: Adult Tom Longboat
This Heritage Minute follows the life of Onondaga long-distance runner Gagwe:gih, whose name means “Everything.” Known around the world as Tom Longboat, he was one of the most celebrated athletes of the early 20th century....
Darkest Miriam
Character: Beautiful Young Man
Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam's sheltered existence is cracked open....
The Long Walk
Character: Collie Parker
A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot....
Frontier Crucible
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In 1870s Arizona Territory, a former soldier with a tragic past is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws, a beautiful woman, and her wounded husband, in an attempt to survive the elements and hostiles of the western frontier....
Sweet Summer Pow Wow
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A young Indigenous couple get a break from their troubled lives when they find each other through a summer of love on the Pow-Wow circuit....