Grace Dove(II)
- Actress
- Director
Grace Dove is an Indigenous Actress and Director who has embraced a
responsibility to lift up her audience and her community.
In 2015 she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in the
Oscar-winning film The Revenant. Other recent film credits include the
Netflix thriller How It Ends (2018), where she starred alongside
Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and Theo James. In
2020 she appeared in her first leading role in the feature film adaptation
of Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach. Her past television credits
include a series lead beside Hilary Swank on ABC Alaska Daily, Syfy
series Resident Alien and the Netflix series The Order.
In 2020 Dove made her directorial debut with the poignantly beautiful
and visually stunning short film Kiri and The Girl, which is currently
streaming on Apple TV. The well-received short screened at St. John's
International Women's Festival, American Indian Film Festival SF, San
Diego International Film Festival and Victoria Film Festival after
debuting at the Vancouver International Film Fest.
Dove recently wrapped filming the five-part limited series Bones of
Crows, where she stars as Cree Matriarch "Aline Spears". Bones of
Crows tells the story of Spears' childhood as she survives Canada's
residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in
the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her
uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a
special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in
World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force
that propels us into the future.
