Sheila Tousey
Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1959) is a Native American actress. Tousey is a Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee Native American, raised on both the Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. A professional dancer and actress, Tousey began doing pow wows as a small child but did not perform on stage until she attended the University of New Mexico. She initially entered the university's law program, planning to specialize in federal contracts and Native American law, but later changed her major to English, and began taking theater arts courses. After graduation, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of Arts.
Ravenous
as MarthaUpon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western...
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Thunderheart
as Maggie Eagle BearAn FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation,...
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Lord of Illusions
as Jennifer DesiderioDuring a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a...
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Dreamkeeper
as JanineIn South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane,...
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Skinwalkers
as Emma LeaphornFaced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the...
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Silent Tongue
as Awbonnie / GhostMad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body...
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Slaughter of the Innocents
as Agent LemarA seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic...
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All the Winters that Have Been
as Irene (as Sheila M. Tousey)Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven...
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Song of Hiawatha
as NokomisThis adaptation of an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha...
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Grand Avenue
as MollieWhen Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by...
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Sparkler
as HurricaneMelba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic,...
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Christmas in the Clouds
as MaryA classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort...
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Manahatta
as Bobbie / Mother / EnsembleIn this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn...
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Backroads
as Grace NelsonA lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.
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This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"
as ChonchellaDirector Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage...
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Julius Caesar
as Cicero / Plebeian / EnsembleThis muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Judge Danielle LarsenIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
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The X-Files
as Native American NurseThe exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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Law & Order
as Mrs. VilardiIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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Into the West
as Older Thunder Heart WomanThe lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the...
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