Nathaniel Arcand
Birthday: Born in 1971-11-13 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Nathaniel Arcand (born November 13, 1971) is a Canadian actor and is Nēhilawē (Plains Cree), from the Alexander First Nation Reserve. His first major role was as troubled teen William MacNeil for 3 seasons in the Canadian drama series North of 60. In 1997, he was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series" for the North of 60 episode "Traces and Tracks." He had a major role as Clinton Skye in the CBS crime drama FBI: Most Wanted, and one of his longest running roles is that of Scott Cardinal on the CBC series Heartland. He has also appeared on Murdoch Mysteries, Smallville, Longmire, Bull, Supernatural, and Into the West, to name a few. He portrays Victor Merasty on Blackstone, "an unmuted exploration of First Nations’ power and politics" set in a small Plains Cree community. He also portrays Nathan in the comedic drama Two Indians Talking, which won the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular Canadian Film Award. He appeared in Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson, as well as many other films.
TV Credits
North of 60
Character: William MacNeil
North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest. It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a primarily Native-run town depicted as being in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories. Most of the characters were Dene. Some non-native characters had important roles: the restaurant/motel owner, the band manager, the nurse and the town's main RCMP offic...
Due South
Character: David Kitikmeot
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes....
Da Vinci's Inquest
Character:
Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as D...
Smallville
Character: Jeremiah Holdsclaw
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel....
Fear Itself
Character: First Victim
A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films....
Supernatural
Character: Derek Swan
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way. ...
Caitlin's Way
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Caitlin, a tough city girl and an orphan since age eight, faces two options when she gets in trouble with the law: Go to juvenile hall, or move to the wilds of Montana to live with distant cousins....
Into the West
Character: Brings Horse
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890....
Murdoch Mysteries
Character: Jimmy McLeod
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings....
Heartland
Character: Scott Cardinal
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?...
Moose TV
Character:
Moose TV is a Canadian television sitcom, airing on Showcase in the 2007-08 television season. The show stars Adam Beach as George Keeshig, a Cree from the fictional community of Moose in northern Quebec, who returns home after a decade living in Toronto to become manager of the local community television station. The cast also includes Gary Farmer, Jennifer Podemski, Nathaniel Arcand, Michelle Latimer, Diane Flacks and Billy Merasty. The show's head writer is Paul Quarrington. The series was d...
Delmer & Marta
Character: Takoda Callihoo
A woman becomes a TV personality after relocating with her husband....
Shoebox Zoo
Character: Cousin Henry
Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancie...
Avatar the Last Airbender
Character: Chief Arnook
A young boy known as the Avatar must master the four elemental powers to save a world at war — and fight a ruthless enemy bent on stopping him....
Bull
Character: Makya 'Mack' Benally
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm....
Black Summer
Character: Governale
In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones....
FBI: Most Wanted
Character: Clinton Skye
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau's Most Wanted list. Seasoned agents oversee the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice....
FBI
Character: Clinton Skye
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe....
Longmire
Character: Avo
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson....
My Life with the Walter Boys
Character: Mato Summerhill
When a tragedy disrupts her life, a teen moves in with her guardian's big family in a small town and learns new lessons about love, hope and friendship....
Movie Credits
Pathfinder
Character: Wind In Tree
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen....
Chick Street Fighter
Character: Jonny
An abused woman finds a way to vent her anger by regular bouts in an underground boxing ring....
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Character: Hunter
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves....
Elektra
Character: Hand Ninja #1
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins....
American Outlaws
Character: Comanche Tom
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James....
Nora Roberts’ Montana Sky
Character: Adam Wolfchild
The wealthy stock dealer bequeaths his Montana farm to the three daughters provided they would live there together at least for a year....
Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch
Character: Ranger John Eagleheart
When a group of poachers is found mauled to death in the woods of the Pacific Northwest -- mirroring a grisly slaying that happened years ago, known as the "Echo Mountain Massacre" -- angry locals are convinced that the infamous Sasquatch is to blame. But that doesn't stop four passionate high school students from making a plea to spare the creature's life....
Dreamkeeper
Character: Broken Lance
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic....
Kiri and the Girl
Character: Wolf
After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world....
The Lone Ranger
Character: Tonto
This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded in the midst of the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto... and subsequently becomes smitten by Tonto's sister Alope. He then devotes his life to avenging the death of his brother and fighting injustice, and in the process becoming a worldwide leg...
Two Indians Talking
Character: Nathan
Two Indians Talking is a comedic drama about the conflicting opinions of two First Nations men as they prepare to set up a roadblock. Each man wants fiercely to do the right thing, but struggles with the question, "When you do something for the right reasons, does that make it the right thing to do?"...
Portraits from a Fire
Character: Gord
An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels....
Killers of the Flower Moon
Character: Ancestor Warrior
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery....
Zombie Attack: Museum of the Dead
Character:
One night a year, a museum opens it's doors to exhibit a collection of cursed artifacts... But something hideous is roaming these halls, feasting on the flesh of the innocent. A cannibalistic horror is alive! The hunger is spreading, and the only escape is through the hordes of the damned....
Skins
Character: Teen Mogie
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation....
The Doe Boy
Character: Junior
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity....
Crazy Horse
Character: Little Hawk
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion....
The Ties That Bind
Character: Mr. Boyden
In a winter of darkness, between brothers, no one gets out alive....
Drawing Home
Character: Will Bearspaw
Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. But when she least expects it, she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their worlds are polar opposites. As their attraction turns their lives upside down, they soon face a universal question: Can you find "home" in another person?...
The Birds Who Fear Death
Character: Don
Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves, their people and their fortune....
The Northlander
Character: Shappa
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed...
From Cherry English
Character: Traylor
A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective....
Wildfire 7: The Inferno
Character: Red
Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way....
Dead Again in Tombstone
Character: Bull Dog
The devil’s outlaw and reluctant servant, Guerrero returns from the dead again in this action-packed western which promises to be one hell of a ride. Guerrero is forced to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of Jackson Boomer and his gang of soldiers, but Jackson will stop at nothing to raise his comrades from the dead and bring the wrath of hell upon earth. Guerrero must use all his dark powers in order to defeat Jackson and find redemption…or die again trying....
Grey Owl
Character: Ned White Bear
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings h...
Speaking of Sex
Character: Calvin
A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems....
100 Days In The Jungle
Character: Leonard Carter
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days....
Monkey Beach
Character: Albert Hill
Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Haisla people. Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting, and fishing in a remote village where the land slips into the green ocean on the edge of the world, Lisamarie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her. She recounts her enchanted yet scarred life as she journeys in ...
Cold Pursuit
Character: Fredrick 'Smoke' Alycott
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution....
Black Cloud
Character: Jimmy
Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team....
Indian Road Trip
Character: Billy Cardinal
When two unruly Native con-artists are forced to drive a cranky elder across the reserve so she can make peace with her long estranged and dying sister, it quickly becomes clear that a supernatural force is trying to halt the journey....
The Baker's Son
Character: Lyle
Matt’s passion transforms his bread from bland to brilliant. But when his bread loses its magic, the island locals panic and turn to Annie - Matt’s childhood friend and true love - for help....