Sheila Tousey

Sheila Tousey

Born: June 4, 1960
in Keshena, Wisconsin,USA
Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1959) is a Native American actress.

Tousey is a Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee Native American, raised on both the Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. A professional dancer and actress, Tousey began doing pow wows as a small child but did not perform on stage until she attended the University of New Mexico. She initially entered the university's law program, planning to specialize in federal contracts and Native American law, but later changed her major to English, and began taking theater arts courses. After graduation, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of Arts.

Movies for Sheila Tousey...

Manahatta
Title: Manahatta
Character: Bobbie / Mother / Ensemble
Released: March 29, 2021
Type: Movie
In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of Native people and the attempted eradication of their culture, that gave rise to the America we know today. Securities trader Jane Snake is torn between worlds. Her return to Wall Street in 2008 brings her to Manahatta (“island of many hills” in Lenape), the homeland her ancestors were violently forced to leave in the 1600s. Meanwhile, her family in Oklahoma struggles to save their language, their culture and their over-mortgaged home. Jane Snake’s return to Manahatta defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Cicero / Plebeian / Ensemble
Released: March 1, 2021
Type: Movie
This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare's political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and means lead to unexpected consequences they cannot control.
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Title: Into the West
Character: Older Thunder Heart Woman
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: TV
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Johnny Tootall
Title: Johnny Tootall
Character: Agnes
Released: March 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Discharged from Bosnian war, Johnny carries the weight of this war on his shoulders. He left the war with a dark and frightening secret, the murder of a young boy that haunts him. But Johnny carries many demons. The death of his father, running from his destiny as Chief of the Band and abandoning the love of his life. Nevertheless, Johnny must return home, the wolf spirit has called. Upon his return, he finds a new war. His estranged brother is leading his people in a revolt to save their sacred land. Johnny faces a dilemma; does he fight to save his people, or does he save himself? His journey will guide him to realizing that they are the same. In a blink, his world changes and in death, his brother guides him on a spirit walk to meet his destiny as leader of his people.
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Dreamkeeper
Title: Dreamkeeper
Character: Janine
Released: December 28, 2003
Type: Movie
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.
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This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs
Title: This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"
Character: Chonchella
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."
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Skinwalkers
Title: Skinwalkers
Character: Emma Leaphorn
Released: November 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
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Christmas in the Clouds
Title: Christmas in the Clouds
Character: Mary
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
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Backroads
Title: Backroads
Character: Grace Nelson
Released: January 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Judge Danielle Larsen
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Ravenous
Title: Ravenous
Character: Martha
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
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Sparkler
Title: Sparkler
Character: Hurricane
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.
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All the Winters that Have Been
Title: All the Winters that Have Been
Character: Irene (as Sheila M. Tousey)
Released: September 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
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Song of Hiawatha
Title: Song of Hiawatha
Character: Nokomis
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
This adaptation of an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha (Litefoot), a brave Native American Indian, and his love for the beautiful Minehaha (Irene Bedard)
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Grand Avenue
Title: Grand Avenue
Character: Mollie
Released: June 30, 1996
Type: Movie
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.
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Lord of Illusions
Title: Lord of Illusions
Character: Jennifer Desiderio
Released: August 25, 1995
Type: Movie
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
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Slaughter of the Innocents
Title: Slaughter of the Innocents
Character: Agent Lemar
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Native American Nurse
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Title: Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Character: Annie
Released: January 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space professionals---from astronauts and life systems engineers to space suit designers, interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A moving story concerning Jaime Escalante and one of his students (Raymond Cruz) is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. A documentary AND fantasy. Shot on video and on film. Guest stars include Kathy Bates, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Morita, Esai Morales, and Billy Bob Thornton.
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Silent Tongue
Title: Silent Tongue
Character: Awbonnie / Ghost
Released: January 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bury her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with Roe.
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Thunderheart
Title: Thunderheart
Character: Maggie Eagle Bear
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Mrs. Vilardi
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.