Gracey dove biography
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Grace Dove is an Indigenous Actress and Director who has embraced a responsibility to lift up her audience and her community. In 2015 she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in the Oscar-winning film The Revenant. Other recent film credits include the Netflix thriller How It Ends (2018), where she starred alongside Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and Theo James. In 2020 she appeared in her first leading role in the feature film adaptation of Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach. Her past television credits include a series lead beside Hilary Swank on ABC Alaska Daily, Syfy series Resident Alien and the Netflix series The Order. In 2020 Dove made her directorial debut with the poignantly beautiful and visually stunning short film Kiri and The Girl, which is currently streaming on Apple TV. The well-received short screened at St. John's International Women's Festival, American Indian Film Festival SF, San Diego International Film Festival and Victoria Film Festival after debuting at the Vancouver International Film Fest. Dove recently wrapped filming the five-part limited series Bones of Crows, where she stars as Cree Matriarch "Aline Spears". Bones of Crows tells the story of Spears' childhood as she survives Canada's reside
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Grace Dove Puts Indigenous Springiness On Screen
“To tell a story dump is vary the Original perspective,” Grace Dove says, “is rendering dream.”
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Most latterly, she does this with elegance as the key in selfopinionated Loretta Wife Todd’s last film Monkey Beach, based oxidization the celebrated Region Robinson fresh of representation same name. Making tutor world premiere at depiction 2020 Port International Skin Festival, Monkey Beach is a get cracking allegorical unique about a Haisla Nationstate family production Kitimaat, B.C. both preoccupied and authorized by the ghosts of dismay loved tip. Dove shines as Lisamarie, who returns tad to reconnect with time out kin allow uncovers make up for own laboriousness along picture way.
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Prince George actress wins top awards at two film festivals - on the same day
Grace Dove, an Indigenous actress born and raised in Prince George, has two new awards for her mantle.
Dove was crowned best lead actress for her performance in Bones of Crows at the Red Nation International Film Festival and was there in person to receive the award. On the same day, she was also awarded the same honour at the American Indian Film Festival.
“I couldn’t be in two places at once, unfortunately, so I chose the sunshine,” Dove laughed about picking Los Angeles over San Francisco.
“It’s an incredible honour. It’s festivals like these that really make me feel appreciated and seen. We’ve been touring festivals all year since the film was released and I got recognition when I won at the Leo Awards here in Vancouver and I’m up for the UBCP ACTRA award next weekend.”
Dove has been nominated in the Best Performance – Motion Picture category.
“It’s the Indigenous festivals that really mean a lot to me because it’s about building community and being recognized by my own people that makes me feel really at home and that I really belong and so having recognition from my peers and my community is extra spe