Billy Merasty
Birthday
1960/01/01 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
Also know as
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Biography
Billy Merasty is an actor, playwright, Cree translator, and language keeper. He was born to Viola and Pierre Merasty in 1960 in Brochet, Manitoba. His grandfather was Joe Highway, a famous caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. He moved to Toronto at age eighteen in search for his uncle René Highway, who was at the time working for the Toronto Dance Theatre. At age twenty-three Billy launched his acting career after graduating from the Native Theatre School for aspiring Indigenous artists. H...Read more
Acting
(1994) Exotica
as Man at opera
(2009) Northern Lights
as Jacob
(2005) The Big White
as Cam
(2007) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as Young Man Afraid
(1995) Pocahontas: The Legend
as Kocoum
(2004) Battle of the Brave
as Owashak
(2023) Café Daughter
as Amos Horseknife
(1995) Les Légendes du Grand Nord
as Mawaki
(2005) The New World
as Kiskiak
(1990) The Shaman's Source
as Mathew Hare
(2022) Stellar
as Auntie 1
(1998) Honey Moccasin
as Zachary John
(1992) The Broken Cord
as Frank Cree
(1989) Snake Treaty
as ---
(2008) Elijah
as Elijah Harper
(2024) Aberdeen
as Alfred
(2019) It Chapter Two
as Shokopiwah Man
(1995) The Confessional
as Moose
(2013) Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights
as John Norton
(2019) The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
as William Bearclaw
(1994) X-Rated
as Nathan Jones
(2000) Stardom
as ---
(1995) Liberty Street
as Nathan Jones
(2007) Moose TV
as ---
(2004) Wonderfalls
as Jerry
(1995) No Price Too High
as ---
(2022) Acting Good
as ---
(2011) Moby Dick
as Tashtego
(1999) Relic Hunter
as Inuit Hunter
(2004) This Is Wonderland
as Brian Perot (as William Merasty)
(2019) Diggstown
as Chief Thomas
(2006) Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
as John Cree
(2017) Cardinal
as Billy Ralph Northwind