Cara Jade Myers

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Cara Jade Myers
BornSeptember 1985 (age 38)
Nationality Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, [1] American

Cara Jade Myers is an American actress and writer known for her breakout performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). [2] [3] [4] She is an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a Kiowa descendant. [1]

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Early life

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Myers was raised in Prescott Valley. [5] Her mother is Sharon Campbell (Wichita), and her father is Bennett Hill (Kiowa). Cara is an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. She has written that her parents "were alcoholics and drug addicts with undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues." [6]

Originally interested in Egyptology and astronomy in college, she found herself fascinated by theater and acting. [1]

Career

In 2011, Myers moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Josh. That year she was a semi-finalist in the ABC/Disney writer's program. [1] She took many behind-the-scenes jobs to learn about various aspects of filmmaking. She also has had some roles in TV series. [6]

Myers has continued to write. Early in 2020, she was one of twelve people selected for the A3 Artist Agency’s "The Colony" program. [7]

Myers was also chosen as a 2020 fellow in the Native American Feature Film Writers Lab. She has worked with the Native American Media Alliance to teach classes to youth on reservations in writing and filmmaking. [6]

She is known for her performance as Anna Brown, one of four sisters in an Osage family under siege in director Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Jersey Boys Bar Room DancerUncredited
2020 Proximity Waitress
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon Anna Brown
2023Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost HorseShari NicholsPost-production
TBAMidnight in the Orange GroveDr. Anna Nobel
TBA Ice Fall Filming [8]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011NorthSidersSinovaEpisode #1.1
2013Dark SecretsPerformerEpisode: "Monster of Matagalpa"
2019 This Is Us Officer JorgensonEpisode: "So Long, Marianne"
2021 Rutherford Falls LoriEpisode: "Skoden"

Awards and honors

She was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch" for 2023. [3]

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