Sheila Tousey

Sheila Tousey

Nascimento : 1960-06-04, Keshena, Wisconsin, U.S.

História

Tousey is a Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee Native American, raised on both the Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. A professional dancer and actress, Tousey began doing pow wows as a small child but did not perform on stage until she attended the University of New Mexico. She initially entered the university's law program, planning to specialize in federal contracts and Native American law, but later changed her major to English, and began taking theater arts courses. After graduation, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of Arts.

Perfil

Sheila Tousey

Filmes

Manahatta
Bobbie / Mother / Ensemble
In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of Native people and the attempted eradication of their culture, that gave rise to the America we know today. Securities trader Jane Snake is torn between worlds. Her return to Wall Street in 2008 brings her to Manahatta (“island of many hills” in Lenape), the homeland her ancestors were violently forced to leave in the 1600s. Meanwhile, her family in Oklahoma struggles to save their language, their culture and their over-mortgaged home. Jane Snake’s return to Manahatta defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.
Julius Caesar
Cicero / Plebeian / Ensemble
This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare's political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and means lead to unexpected consequences they cannot control.
Johnny Tootall
Agnes
Discharged from Bosnian war, Johnny carries the weight of this war on his shoulders. He left the war with a dark and frightening secret, the murder of a young boy that haunts him. But Johnny carries many demons. The death of his father, running from his destiny as Chief of the Band and abandoning the love of his life. Nevertheless, Johnny must return home, the wolf spirit has called. Upon his return, he finds a new war. His estranged brother is leading his people in a revolt to save their sacred land. Johnny faces a dilemma; does he fight to save his people, or does he save himself? His journey will guide him to realizing that they are the same. In a blink, his world changes and in death, his brother guides him on a spirit walk to meet his destiny as leader of his people.
Guardião dos Sonhos
Janine
Em Dakota do Sul, em uma reserva indígena, um velho contador de histórias indiano pede a seu neto Shane, que está em apuros devido a dinheiro para alguns vilões, levar seu velho pônei e ele a Albuquerque para a grande reunião de índios. Enquanto viaja, o vovô conta histórias misteriosas de amor, amizade e magia.
This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs
Chonchella
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."
Skinwalkers
Emma Leaphorn
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Christmas in the Clouds
Mary
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Backroads
Grace Nelson
A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.
Mortos de Fome
Martha
Em 1847, um oficial da Cavalaria americana é enviado para um forte numa região remota da Califórnia, na Sierra Nevada, onde aparece um estranho com uma história misteriosa sobre canibais. A situação se complica ainda mais quando eles saem para investigar o local onde teria acontecido a tragédia.
Sparkler
Hurricane
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.
All the Winters that Have Been
Irene (as Sheila M. Tousey)
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
Song of Hiawatha
Nokomis
This adaptation of an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha (Litefoot), a brave Native American Indian, and his love for the beautiful Minehaha (Irene Bedard)
Grand Avenue
Mollie
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.
O Mestre das Ilusões
Jennifer Desiderio
Baseado no conto The Last Illusion de Clive Barker, Mestre das Ilusões é uma mistura de gêneros relacionados ao sobrenatural. Em 1982, Philip Swann , um seguidor do líder de uma seita demoníaca, Nix , conduz um grupo de companheiros para uma missão: matar e queimar o maléfico guru antes que ele possa sacrificar uma jovem. Nos dias atuais, o detetive Harry D'Amour é contratado por Dorothea Swann para proteger seu marido, o agora famoso mágico Phillip Swann, que está sendo ameaçado por um grupo de satanistas que planejam trazer de volta à vida o seu líder, Nix.
Silent Tongue
Awbonnie / Ghost
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bury her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with Roe.
Dupla Fatal
Agent Lemar
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Coração de Trovão
Maggie Eagle Bear
Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), um agente do FBI de ascendência indígena, é escalado para investigar um assassinato em uma reserva Sioux. As evidências apontam para William Dawes (Fred Dalton Thompson), um ativista radical, mas pouco a pouco Levoi monta as peças de um quebra-cabeças que mostra que o governo pode estar prestes a condenar um homem inocente.