Billy Merasty
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. He then went on to work for the renowned Indigenous performing arts company Native Earth Performing Arts. Billy has worked as a film, television, and stage actor for decades and notably played the first Indigenous gay character on television on the CBC series, Liberty Street, in the role of Nathan. Billy received the Order of Manitoba (Order of the Buffalo Hunt) in recognition for his many years as an Indigenous role model in 2010.
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of...
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The New World
as KiskiakA drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as Young Man AfraidBeginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story...
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Exotica
as Man at operaIn the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive...
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The Big White
as CamTo remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just...
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Northern Lights
as JacobHoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns...
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Battle of the Brave
as OwashakIn the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance...
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Stardom
as uncreditedA young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous...
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Pocahontas: The Legend
as KocoumEnglishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious...
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X-Rated
as Nathan JonesA man is asked by his parents to run an apartment complex they own and becomes acquainted with...
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The Confessional
as MoosePierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his...
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Stellar
as Auntie 1Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism....
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Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights
as John NortonMohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until...
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The Broken Cord
as Frank CreeFact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American...
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Café Daughter
as Amos HorseknifeIn a small Saskatchewan town in the 1960s, Yvette Wong, a young girl of Chinese and Cree...
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Les Légendes du Grand Nord
as MawakiA mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon...
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Aberdeen
as AlfredAn idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis...
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The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
as William BearclawAs MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city...
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Honey Moccasin
as Zachary JohnThis all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new...
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Relic Hunter
as Inuit HunterSydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to...
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Diggstown
as Chief ThomasFollow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved...
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This Is Wonderland
as Brian Perot (as William Merasty)Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in...
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Wonderfalls
as JerryJaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as...
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Moby Dick
as TashtegoThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive...
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No Price Too High
as uncreditedThe Canadian contribution to World War Two was extraordinary in scale and variety. More than one...
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Acting Good
as uncreditedAfter a botched attempt to move to Winnipeg, Paul retreats back to his eccentric family in the...
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Liberty Street
as Nathan JonesLiberty Street was a Canadian drama television series, which aired on CBC Television in...
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Moose TV
as uncreditedMoose TV is a Canadian television sitcom, airing on Showcase in the 2007-08 television...
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