Early life
McArthur was born and brought up in Regina, Saskatchewan, [2] Her father was Nakota/Assiniboine Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation [1] and her mother was a German-Canadian actress. [4]
McArthur started her training at high school age, singing, acting, dancing attending musical theatre and TV and film workshops. [1] At the age of 18, [5] McArthur moved to the United States [1] to study post-secondary music theatre training at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. [4] Following this she moved to British Columbia to study method, Studio and Meisner technique acting classes, also general arts at Capilano University in Vancouver. [1] She furthered her acting education in England at from East 15 Acting School [6] at the University of Essex in Loughton, Essex, to become a classically trained actor, [5] graduating with a Master of Arts degree in acting with distinction. [4] McArthur moved back to New York City and Toronto and likened the travelling of her acting career to "following the buffalo," as was the nomadic way of her Nakota/Assiniboine ancestors. [7]
Career
McArthur's debut screen appearance was at age 13 [1] while working for a children's modelling agency [2] in the 1999 CBC TV movie/miniseries Revenge of the Land as the daughter of fellow native American and Outlander actress Carmen Moore. [4] McArthur played the role of Azrael in The Lost Angel in 2004. [8] Between 2012 and 2014, McArthur played Hailey Martin for 8 episodes of CBC's Arctic Air. [9] The same year, while filming Skye & Chang in 2014, McArthur performed many stunts herself, having previously completed three months of taekwondo and martial-arts training. [9] McArthur was purported to be proud that her work on Arctic Air and Skye & Chang both heralded diversity, and highlighted McArthur herself as a television role model for Native American youth, [9] as fellow indigenous actress Tantoo Cardinal is to her. [2] McArthur was a lead actor in the TV-movie Skye & Chang which won the award for best short live feature at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. [9] [1] McArthur was nominated for best lead actress for films with strong aboriginal characters, for both Skye & Chang and The Wolf of Waubamik Woods at the American Indian Film Festival. [1]
Between 2015 and 2018, McArthur played Amanda for 13 episodes of Hard Rock Medical, [4] also in 2018 she plays female lead in Amazon Prime's indie heist film Robbery, [2] followed with a single appearance in 2019 in the Starz television series Outlander as the Mohawk healer Johiehon. [10] [11] In 2020, McArthur stars as Kodie Chartrand, who is of Ojibwe heritage, [5] for 7 episodes of season 3 of The CW's legal drama television series Burden of Truth. [4]
McArthur had main acting roles in two short films chosen to be shown at the 2020 Indianer Inuit: North American Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. [12] McArthur played Sasha in Magic Madeleines [13] and Amanda in Blood Lineage both were due to be shown in February 2020. [14] McArthur starred in the film in Monkey Beach which was a selection for the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) in December 2020. [15]
She won the award for Best Actress at the 2022 American Indian Film Festival, for her performance in the film Broken Angel . [16]
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