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

Biography

Born in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1959, Tousey is a stage and film actress of Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee descent. She was raised on both Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. Tousey began dancing as a small child.

She did not perform on stage until she attended Albuquerque's 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. At the time, she started taking theater arts courses. After graduating, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed her first play, An Evening at the Warbonnet, at the University of New Mexico in 1994.

Tousey has become a professional dancer and actress. Her first movie role was in Thunderheart (1992), and she appeared in Medicine River that same year. Her succeeding roles have been in a variety of characters, including appearances on Law & Order. Beginning in 2002, she has appeared in four movies adapted from Tony Hillerman mystery novels, which feature Native Americans of the Southwest.

Filmography

References

1. "Sheila Tousey". Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. Mohican Nation. Archived from the original on April 28, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
2. Pond, Roscoe (December 4, 2003). "From Hollywood, Tracking Actress Sheila Tousey". Indian Country Today. ICT Media Network. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
3. Aleiss, Angela (2005). Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies. Westport, CT: Praeger Press. p. 156.
4. "Sheila Tousey". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

External links

• Sheila Tousey at IMDb
• Sheila Tousey at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

• 1960 births
• Native American actresses
• Living people
• People from Keshena, Wisconsin
• Actresses from Wisconsin
• Menominee people
• University of New Mexico alumni
• 20th-century Native Americans
• 21st-century Native Americans
• 20th-century Native American women
• 21st-century Native American women
• Native American people from Wisconsin