Background
Wes Studi was born on 17 December 1947 in Oklahoma. He is the eldest son of a ranch hand and a housekeeper.
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Wes Studi was born on 17 December 1947 in Oklahoma. He is the eldest son of a ranch hand and a housekeeper.
Wes Studi was educated at an American Indian boarding school and got an early taste of how Native Americans were often treated off the reservation.
Later Studi enrolled at Tulsa Junior College.
Studi became a soldier in 1967, and eventually served in Vietnam.
In 1972 he took part in the Trail of Broken Treaties protest march. Studi was jailed on that charge, but earned a waiver after only a few days. Soon afterward, Studi landed a job as reporter for the Tulsa Indian News, writing on Native American issues.
For several years, Studi worked and ran a horse ranch in Tulsa. Then, in 1982, after divorcing his second wife, Studi felt a need to "build another life, " as he said in the People piece. He joined the American Indian Theater Company and by 1986 had moved to Los Angeles to pursue his craft.
In 1988 Studi got his big break-a role in the acclaimed independent feature Powwow Highway. That role led to a small but intense part in the blockbuster Dances With Wolves. In the Kevin Costner-directed film, Studi was an "angry Pawnee warrior who scalps actor Robert Pastorelli", Goodman wrote.
Next came another big role, in the popular remake of The Last of the Mohicans. Though the film itself received mixed reviews, many critics took special note of Studi's performance.
In 1993 Studi landed his most important acting role to date-the title role in Geronimo. As the legendary Chiricahua Apache leader who waged a determined-and, ultimately, ill-fated-campaign against the U. S. Army, Studi crafted a layered performance.
While Geronimo didn't pack in the audiences the way Dances With Wolves and Mohicans had, Studi earned virtually unanimous praise.
While Studi's roles have leaned toward the grimly dramatic, those close to the actor know another side. Studi has written two children's books in Cherokee and even translated the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Kentucky Cycle into that language.
Wes Studi got a relatively late start as a film star-he was about 44 when he landed his first movie-but prior to that career move the Native American performer had compiled a list of real-life credits that included soldier, reporter and activist.
He has won critical acclaim and awards for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and The New World (2005).
Studi is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994).
Other films he's appeared in are Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and the television series Penny Dreadful.
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Quotations: "We didn't have duty that particular day. The rest of the company went out on a two-day operation. When they came back, we learned they had relocated entire villages. I don't know that it had anything to do with the fact that many of our own people had been relocated, but it sort of struck me as funny", "At first Hollywood treated me like I wasn't there. Then they treated me like I was marginally there, and now they treat me much better", "I'm a Cherokee first and an American later. While I may forgive, I will never forget-and I will pass that feeling on to my own kids".
The Indigenous Language Institute.
Quotes from others about the person
"At one point his company was pinned down in the Mekong Delta-and nearly killed-by friendly fire", "He was one of the protesters who briefly occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The next year he joined the celebrated protest at Wounded Knee, [South Dakota], and was among those arrested on federal charges of insurrection", "only vicious Magua, played by the striking Cherokee actor Wes Studi, seems like a flesh-and-blood man", "Photographs of Geronimo in his prime show a man with a fierce, implacable demeanor and the stocky physique of a defensive lineman", "Wes Studi . .. has a lean, wiry frame, but he nonetheless manages to convey, superbly, the essential quality of those photographs, which is the gravity of Geronimo's idea of himself", "All you see is the stoic guy onscreen. People don't realize how humorous he is".
Studi's first marriage ended in divorce. Later he married again Maura Dhu Studi. They moved their family to a farm near Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1990s. They have a son.
Studi has a daughter and a son from his first marriage.
