{"id":45134,"date":"2023-11-27T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/?page_id=45134"},"modified":"2024-01-31T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:26:37","slug":"joshua-odjick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/rbc-emerging-artists-in-our-schools\/joshua-odjick\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Odjick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joshua Odjick is an award-winning actor from Ottawa, Ontario, who was raised in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, a First Nation community in Maniwaki, Quebec. He is of Algonquin-Anishinabe and Cree heritage, belongs to the Deer clan and is recognized in ceremony as \u201cNabigabow\u201d (he who replaces the first).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua\u2019s cultural ties and his experience growing up on a reserve and in his community have shaped him as an actor. He approaches everything, including his work, from a place of spirit. He holds a powerful connection with his creator, his guardians, the land and his language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He landed his first series regular role in Unsettled<\/em> and has since appeared in the award-winning feature Bootlegger<\/em> and several limited series, including Little Bird<\/em>, Three Pines<\/em>, Pour Toi Flora<\/em>, and Bones of Crows. <\/em>He also portrays the distance runner Tom Longboat in the Canadian historical series of shorts Heritage Minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joshua won the Canadian Screen Award and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award in 2022 for Best Supporting Actor for the multi-award-winning feature film Wildhood<\/em>, which premiered at TIFF in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Joshua plays one of the lead roles in the internationally released series The<\/em> Swarm<\/em> (2023), an ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth, from Primetime Emmy Award-winning television producer Frank Doelger. He also co-hosts the APTN docuseries Warrior Up!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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