Wes Studi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wes Studi

American actor

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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WesleyStudi

Wesley Studi (Cherokee: ?? ???; born December 17, 1947) is a Cherokee American actor and film producer who has won critical acclaim and awards, particularly 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).
He is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994).
Other films he has appeared in are Hostiles, Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and the television series Penny Dreadful.
In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the second Indigenous person to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie), and the first Native American to receive an Oscar for acting.