Joshua Odjick

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Joshua Odjick
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Odjick in 2023
Born (2001-10-28) October 28, 2001 (age 24)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active2020–present

Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor of Algonquin-Anishinaabe/Cree heritage and hails from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nations Community. 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, [1] and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021. [2]

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Early life

A member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, he attended Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec. [3]

Career

In addition to Wildhood, he has appeared in the films Bootlegger , [4] Bones of Crows [5] and Darkest Miriam ,[ citation needed ] as well as the television series Coroner , [6] Unsettled , [7] Little Bird [8] and The Swarm . [4]

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 was released in 2025 on HBO. [9] In the same year, Odjick, Anna Lambe and Joel Oulette cohosted the documentary series Warrior Up! . [10]

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

In February 2025, the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards announced Odjick as the recipient of a mentorship, which will see film director Atom Egoyan provide support and guidance to Odjick for a year in the creation and production of Odjick's first short film as a filmmaker. [12]

In July 2025, he was announced as having a supporting role in the upcoming television series adaptation of Bon Cop, Bad Cop . [13]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021BoundlessJournalist (uncredited)Short film
Wildhood Pasmay
Bootlegger Joseph
2022 Bones of Crows Jake Whallach
2023 Darkest Miriam Beautiful Young Man
2025 Sweet Summer Pow Wow Riley
The Long Walk Collie Parker (#48)
Dusk & DawnDusk
Frontier Crucible Apache #2
2026Lupe Q and the Galactic EarwormsToroPost-production
TBA Wind River: The Next Chapter Danny Grey
LumiPath

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
2024 Warrior Up! Co-host
2025 NCIS: Origins Young Témet TéngalkatEpisode: "From the Ashes"
2025 It: Welcome to Derry Taniel6 episodes
2026 Bon Cop, Bad Cop JoeSeries regular

References

  1. ↑ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  2. ↑ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , March 8, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Anishinaabe students dig into their past". CBC News Ottawa, August 13, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "RBC Emerging Artists in Our Schools: Joshua Odjick". Reel Canada. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Bones of Crows". Toronto International Film Festival. 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ David, Greg (September 15, 2021). "An Indigenous woman returns to her birth family in APTN's Unsettled" . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  8. ↑ "2024 Canadian Screen Awards". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  9. ↑ Petski, Denise (June 26, 2024). "'It' Prequel Series 'Welcome To Derry' Adds 10 To Cast Including Alixandra Fuchs, Kimberly Guerrero, Dorian Grey, Joshua Odjick". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ Angel Moore, "New series Warrior Up! on APTN lumi features Indigenous youth warriors". APTN News , May 7, 2024.
  11. ↑ Grobar, Matt (July 24, 2024). "Charlie Plummer & Roman Griffin Davis Among Seven New Additions To Lionsgate's Stephen King Adaptation 'The Long Walk' As Production Begins". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  12. ↑ Cassandra Szklarski, "Music producer Bob Ezrin, actor Graham Greene among Governor General's performing arts laureates". Rocky Mountain Outlook , February 20, 2025.
  13. ↑ Marc-André Beaulieu, "«Bon Cop, Bad Cop»: Colm Feore se désiste, découvrez l'acteur qui le remplacera". 7 Jours, July 2, 2025.


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