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Join First Nations actress Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs in a live virtual session at 11:00 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, September 11 as she talks about her acting roles on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Acting wasn’t always in the cards for Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs. She grew up on Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, where she didn’t see a lot of acting roles for Indigenous women. So she decided to go to school to become a social worker instead and was working at the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal when she was cast in her first leading role, Aila in 2013’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls. Since then, Jacobs has had standout roles in crime drama Cardinal, Netflix’s supernatural series The Order and Amazon Prime Video’s American Gods as fan fave Sam Blackcrow. “I kind of hate the term ‘strong female leads’ – essentially all of the women-identifying people I know are strong women. I want to find characters who have a lot of agency and are strong and very different. In my mind, my future will look like accepting roles that I’m really passionate about and really inspire me.”
K. Devery Jacobs
Acting wasn’t always in the cards for Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs. She grew up on Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, where she didn’t see a lot of acting roles for Indigenous women. So she decided to go to school to become a social worker instead and was working at the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal when she was cast in her first leading role, Aila in 2013’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls. Since then, Jacobs has had standout roles in crime drama Cardinal, Netflix’s supernatural series The Order and Amazon Prime Video’s American Gods as fan fave Sam Blackcrow. “I kind of hate the term ‘strong female leads’ – essentially all of the women-identifying people I know are strong women. I want to find characters who have a lot of agency and are strong and very different. In my mind, my future will look like accepting roles that I’m really passionate about and really inspire me.”