BEDARD, Irene 1967–

PERSONAL

Born July 22, 1967, in Anchorage, AK; married Denny Wilson (a musician and composer), 1993. Education: Studied physics and philosophy at college in Pennsylvania; received degree from University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA).

Career: Actress. Chuka Lokali theater ensemble, New York City, cofounder; The Half Moon (production company), founder; worked variously as a librarian, bartender, waiter, and baker, and at an oil refinery and a honey farm. Served as a storyteller to Native American children.

Awards, Honors: American Film Festival Award, best actress, First American in the Arts Award, best actress, Cowboy Hall of Fame Award, best actress, 1994, Golden Globe nomination, best actress in a miniseries or movie made for television, Bronze Wrangler (with others), Western Heritage Awards, 1995, all for Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

High Horse, 1994.

Nakooma, Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (also known as The Last Great Warrior), Buena Vista, 1994.

Voice of title role, Pocahontas (animated), Buena Vista, 1995.

Audrey Wyako, Navajo Blues, A–Pix Entertainment, 1997.

Oglala, Store flip, Det (also known as Wild Flowers), 1997.

Minnehaha, Song of Hiawatha, 1997.

Voice of title role, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (animated; also known as Pocahontas: Journey to a New World and Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World), Buena Vista Home Video, 1998.

Suzy Song, Smoke Signals (also known as Le secret des cendres), Miramax, 1998.

Tanya Lewis, Naturally Native, 1998.

Laura Cooper, 6/29, 1998.

Babe, 12 Bucks, 1998.

Ruby, Wildflowers, Fries Film Group, 1999.

Katherine "Kat" Damon, Your Guardian, 2001.

Abbey, Greasewood Flat, 2002.

Sandy, Paris, DEJ Productions, 2003.

Liberata, Tortilla Heaven, 2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

Voice of General Miriam Redwing, Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (animated), 2000–2001.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Black Buffalo Woman, Crazy Horse, TNT, 1996.

Reyna, Grand Avenue, HBO, 1996.

Sana, Two for Texas, TNT, 1998.

Blood Money, The Movie Channel, 1999.

Grace, The Lost Child, CBS, 2000.

Annie Shorty, Edge of America (also known as On the Edge), Showtime, 2003.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, TNT, 1994.

Tobe, True Women, CBS, 1997.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Host, The Making of Pocahontas: A Legend Comes to Life (documentary), The Disney Channel, 1995.

Herself, Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (documentary), TNT, 1997.

(Uncredited) Herself/Suzy Song from Smoke Signals, Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native Americans, 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Melissa Carey, "Twoslip," The Marshal, 1995.

Voice of Morning Light, "Honesty," Adventures from the Book of Virtues, 1996.

Voices of Alice Starseer and young girl, "Return of the Anasazi," The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (animated), 1996.

Voices of old Indian woman and Alice Starseer, "Trouble on the Colorado," The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (animated), 1996.

Maddy Duvall, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Profiler, NBC, 1997.

Callie Whitehorse Landau, "In the Blood," The Outer Limits, Showtime and syndicated, 2001.

Diah Siagian, "The Year of Living Dangerously," The Agency, CBS, 2001.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, June 28, 1996, p. 91.

Parade Magazine, June 30, 1996, p. 14.

People, May 8, 1995, p. 100.