Joshua Odjick

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Joshua Odjick
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Joshua Odjick (right) and other cast members of The Swarm on the red carpet at the Berlinale 2023
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Years active2020–present

Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor from Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his performance as Pasmay in the 2021 film Wildhood , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, [2] and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021. [3]

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Early life

A member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, he attended Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec. [4]

Career

In addition to Wildhood, he has appeared in the films Bootlegger , [5] Bones of Crows [6] and Darkest Miriam ,[ citation needed ] as well as the television series Coroner , [7] Unsettled , [8] Little Bird [9] and The Swarm . [5]

In June 2024, it was announced that Odjick had joined the cast of the American supernatural horror television series It: Welcome to Derry . The series is scheduled to be released in 2025 on HBO. [10]

In July 2024, Odjick was cast in a role on the dystopian horror film The Long Walk , based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King. [11]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021 Wildhood Pasmay
Bootlegger Joseph
2022 Bones of Crows Jake Whallach
2023 Darkest Miriam Beautiful Young Man
TBA Frontier Crucible TBAPost-production
TBA The Long Walk TBAIn production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2020 Coroner Ernest CouchieEpisode: "One Drum"
Unsettled Myles10 episodes
2022Pour toi FloraJeanMiniseries; 5 episodes
Heritage Minutes Tom Longboat Episode: "Tom Longboat"
Three Pines Tommy Kis3 episodes
2023 The Swarm Leon Anawak8 episodes
Little Bird Niizh2 episodes
Bones of Crows Jake Whallach2 episodes
2025 NCIS: Origins TBAEpisode #1.13
It: Welcome to Derry TBAPost-production

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References

  1. Armand Alvarez, "Joshua Odjick: Speaking My True Voice". Look Within, November 17, 2021.
  2. "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  3. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , March 8, 2022.
  4. "Anishinaabe students dig into their past". CBC News Ottawa, August 13, 2018.
  5. 1 2 "RBC Emerging Artists in Our Schools: Joshua Odjick". Reel Canada. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  6. "Bones of Crows". Toronto International Film Festival. 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  7. Cooke, Stephen (August 19, 2020). "Hannam's Wildhood, a two-spirit teenage road trip, now filming in Windsor". The Chronicle Herald. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  8. David, Greg (September 15, 2021). "An Indigenous woman returns to her birth family in APTN's Unsettled" . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  9. "2024 Canadian Screen Awards". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
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