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Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an American actress, who has played mostly lead Native American roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke Signals[1], an adaptation of a Sherman Alexie collection of short stories, as well as for providing the speaking voice for the titular character in the 1995 animated film Pocahontas[2]. Bedard reprised her role as Pocahontas in the films direct-to-video follow-up, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) and for a cameo in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).

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Irene Bedard
Bedard at the Magic City Comic Con in 2016
Born	(1967-07-22) July 22, 1967 (age 55) Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Deni Wilson ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2012)​
Children	1

Early life and career

Bedard was born in Anchorage, Alaska and is of Iñupiat and French Canadian/Cree (Métis) heritage and an enrolled member of the Native Village of Koyuk in Alaska.[3][4] Bedard graduated from Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska in 1985. Bedard attended The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she studied musical theater. Her first role was as Mary Crow Dog in the 1994 television production, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, which depicted the 1970s standoff between the US government and citizens of several Native nations, including many of the Pine Ridge Reservation, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. For this role, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.[5] She is probably best known as the voice of the eponymous heroine in the 1995 Disney animated film Pocahontas, the direct-to-video 1998 sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and in the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet. She appeared in a different take of the story in Terence Malick's 2005 film The New World, as Pocahontas's mother, Nonoma Winanuske Matatiske.

In 2001, Irene Bedard hosted the Ninth Annual First Americans in the Arts (FAITA) Awards from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.[6] In 2002, at the Tenth Annual FAITA Awards, Bedard won Outstanding Guest Performance by an Actress in a TV Drama Series for The Agency.[7]

In 2005, she was cast in the television mini-series Into the West as Margaret "Light Shines" Wheeler.[8] Bedard has been very active in environmental groups to protect sacred lands.[9] In 1997, she co-hosted with Floyd Westerman a benefit for the Dine' People of Big Mountain at The Loft Theatre, in Pasadena. In 2015, she appeared in Chloé Zhao's debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. In 2017 Bedard announced an agreement with the Catawba Nation of South Carolina to join in a production agreement.[10] That year she also appeared as a recurring character in the TV series The Mist. Bedard made an appearance in the music video for Jay-Z's 2018 song "Family Feud".

In 2020, Bedard played a recurring character in seasons one and two of the drama series FBI: Most Wanted. She then was a starring cast member in the Paramount+ miniseries The Stand, as Ray Brentner, a gender-swapped version of Ralph Brentner from the 1994 adaptation.[11] In 2022, she was cast as Yagoda in the upcoming Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender and as Sylvie Nanmac in Alaska Daily, the mother of a missing indigenous woman.[12]

Personal life

In 1993, Bedard married musician Deni Wilson. Between her films, the pair toured for several years with other musicians in a band called "ID," which came from the initials of their first names, Irene and Deni. In 2012, the couple divorced following Bedard's allegations of being a spousal abuse victim.

In November 2020, Bedard was arrested twice in three days. The first arrest was for alleged domestic violence, assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and criminal damaging; the second was for alleged disorderly conduct.[13]

On August 20, 2022, she was again arrested for drunken disorderly conduct after she was heard loudly arguing with another woman in the street with no regard of safety in Xenia, Ohio. Bedard claims she was locked out of her studio and had no alcohol in her system, but police detected alcohol on her breath. The incident had begun as a welfare check on the other woman, who was reported as being passed out in the bushes, but she was gone when authorities arrived, leaving Bedard at the scene.[14]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Nakooma
1995	Pocahontas	Pocahontas (voice)
1996	Navajo Blues	Audrey Wyako
1997	Song of Hiawatha	Minnehaha
	Det store flip	Oglala	AKA, Wild Flowers
1998	6/29	Laura Cooper
	Naturally Native	Tanya Lewis
	Smoke Signals	Suzy Song
	Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World	Pocahontas (voice)	Direct-to-video
	12 Bucks	Babe
1999	Wildflowers	Ruby
2000	Pussykat		Un-produced
2001	Your Guardian	Katherine 'Kat' Damon
2003	Paris	Sandy
	Greasewood Flat	Abbey
	Edge of America	Annie Shorty	TV movie
2005	Planting Melvin	Billie Lawrence
	Miracle at Sage Creek	Sunny
	Love's Long Journey	Miriam Red Hawk McClain	TV movie
	The New World	Pocahontas's Mother (Nonoma)
2007	Cosmic Radio	K.C.
	Tortilla Heaven	Liberata
	The Red Chalk	Eve
2008	Turok: Son of Stone	Catori (voice)	Direct-to-video
2011	The Tree of Life	Messenger
	Timberwolf	Eleni	Pre-Production
2013	Vertical	Lucy Mills
2014	Ron and Laura Take Back America	Mrs. Alma
2015	Songs My Brothers Taught Me	Lisa Winters
2017	Spreading Darkness	Marci Gippolin
2018	Family Feud	Co-president of the United States	Music video
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Pocahontas (voice)
2019	The Bygone	Mrs. Call
2022	The Harbinger	Floating Hawk
2022	How to Blow Up a Pipeline	Joanna
2022	Mending the Line	Mrs. Redcloud

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee	Mary Crow Dog	TV movie
1995	The Marshal	Melissa Carey	Episode: "Twoslip"
1996	Grand Avenue	Reyna	TV movies
	Crazy Horse	Black Buffalo Woman
	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Morning Light and Sharp Eyes / Chief's Daughter (voice)	Episodes: "Honesty" and "Perseverance"
	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Alice Starseer (voice)	Episodes: "Return of the Anasazi"; "Trouble on the Colorado"
1997	Profiler	Maddy Duvall	Episode: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
	True Women	Tobe	TV movie
1998	Two for Texas	Sana	TV movie
1999	Blood Money	Naomi Lister	TV movie
1999–2001	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles	General Miriam Redwing (voice)	4 episodes
2000	The Lost Child	Grace	TV movie
2001	The Outer Limits	Callie Whitehorse Landau	Episode: "In the Blood"
	The Agency	Diah Siagian	Episode: "The Year of Living Dangerously"
	House of Mouse	Pocahontas (voice)	Episode: "Thanks to Minnie"
2004	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Cody Long (voice)	Episode: "New Mexico, Old Monster"
2005	Higglytown Heroes	Forest Ranger Hero (voice)	Episode: "Fran Takes a Hike/Mystery at Kip's House"
	Into the West	Margaret Light Shines	Episodes: "Hell on Wheels"; "Casualties of War"; "Ghost Dance"
2008–2009	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Jean DeWolff (voice)	4 episodes
2012	Young Justice: Invasion	Shelly Longshadow (voice)	1 episode
2012-2015	Longmire	May Stillwater	3 episodes
2017	The Mist	Kimi Lucero	9 episodes
2018	Westworld	Wichapi	Episode: "Kiksuya"
2020	FBI: Most Wanted	Mary Lou Skye	8 episodes
2020	The Stand	Ray Brentner	Television miniseries
2022	Alaska Daily	Sylvie Nanmac	3 episodes
TBA	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Yagoda	Post-production[15]

Music video

Year	Title	Artist(s)	Role
2017	"Family Feud	Jay Z featuring Beyoncé	Irene

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Animated Storybook: Pocahontas	Pocahontas (voice)
1996	Disney's Pocahontas (video game)	Pocahontas (voice)
2021	Cookie Run: Kingdom	Pocahontas Cookie (voice)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1995	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV	Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee	Nominated
1999	Western Heritage Awards	Bronze Wrangler - Television Feature Film	Two for Texas	Won
2004	First Americans in the Arts Awards	Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film	Greasewood Flat	Won
2002	First Americans in the Arts Awards	Outstanding Guest Performance by an Actress in a TV Drama Series	The Agency	Won
2006	NAMIC Vision Awards	Best Dramatic Performance	Into the West	Won
	Western Heritage Awards	Bronze Wrangler - Television Feature Film		Won

References

External links

• Irene Bedard Biography at who2.com
• Irene Bedard at IMDb
• Irene Bedard at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] Irene Bedard

Irene Bedard (* 22. Juli 1967 in Anchorage, Alaska) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Synchronsprecherin, die insbesondere für Darstellungen von Native-American-Charakteren berühmt wurde.

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- [en] Irene Bedard

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[es] Irene Bedard

Irene Bedard (Anchorage, Alaska, 22 de julio de 1967) es una actriz de Estados Unidos conocida por sus interpretaciones en películas sobre nativos de Norteamérica.

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[ru] Бедард, Ирен

Ире́н Бе́дард (англ. Irene Bedard; род. 1967 в Анкоридже) — американская актриса кино, телевидения и озвучивания. Одна из крайне немногих актрис-эскимосок, добившихся большой известности. Амплуа — индианки. Наиболее известна зрителю озвучиванием индейской принцессы Покахонтас в мультфильме и игре[en] 1995 года, в продолжении мультфильма 1998 года, причём мультипликационное изображение также было срисовано с настоящего облика Ирен Бедард.

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