Sheila Tousey

Sheila Tousey

Birthday: 1960-06-04

Place of Birth: Keshena, Wisconsin,USA

Biography: Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1959) is a Native American actress. 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.

Movies

Ravenous
Ravenous

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western fron...

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Sparkler
Sparkler

Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and...

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Lord of Illusions
Lord of Illusions

During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fana...

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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laund...

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Dreamkeeper
Dreamkeeper

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is...

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Silent Tongue
Silent Tongue

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside...

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Song of Hiawatha
Song of Hiawatha

This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe lea...

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Skinwalkers
Skinwalkers

Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders a...

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Johnny Tootall
Johnny Tootall

Discharged from Bosnian war, Johnny carries the weight of this war on his shoulders. He left the war...

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Christmas in the Clouds
Christmas in the Clouds

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that...

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Grand Avenue
Grand Avenue

When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her b...

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Thunderheart
Thunderheart

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on...

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Backroads
Backroads

A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges....

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Slaughter of the Innocents
Slaughter of the Innocents

A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic moha...

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All the Winters that Have Been
All the Winters that Have Been

Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) h...

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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper ...

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Manahatta
Manahatta

In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nag...

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This So-Called Disaster
This So-Called Disaster

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production o...

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Medicine River
Medicine River

When photographer Will returns home for his mother's funeral he gets more than he bargained for from...

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Coyote Waits
Coyote Waits

A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Che...

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Wildflowers
Wildflowers

A melancholic 17-year-old raised on a small commune by her father encounters a free-spirited older w...

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A Thief Of Time
A Thief Of Time

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from ...

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