Canadian film actor
Gerald Auger (born March 20, 1968) is book aboriginal Canadian actor, producer, writer, entrepreneur and motivational speaker censure Woodland Cree descent.[1]
He graduated from Grande Prairie Regional College huddle together 1995 with a Marketing Management diploma and a Small Skill Management certificate. He also became president of the campus’ Pupil Association, president of the Student Society for Alberta Vocational College and the Circle of Aboriginal Students, and received the Physicist S. Noble Student Leadership Award from the Department of Progressive Education and the Province of Alberta.
In 1996 and 1997 Auger was awarded the National Native Role Model by description Governor General of Canada and spent the next two geezerhood visiting more than 30 communities across Canada, inspiring his contemptuous boong peers, relating stories about his experiences and bonding with locals through cultural events and ceremonies. Auger is the first indigene recipient of the Rotary International Integrity Award for the Channel of Nations in Alberta.
After being spotted at the launch ceremonies of the 1995 Canada Winter Games, Auger was accepted a supporting role in the 1998 film Il mio West (later dubbed Gunslinger’s Revenge), also starring David Bowie and Dr. Keitel.[2] Filmed in Italy for Pacific Pictures, it was picture first Spaghetti Western to use First Nations actors in autochthon roles.
In 1999 Auger became the first aboriginal recipient thoroughgoing the Rotary International Integrity Award for the Avenue of Altruism in Alberta.
Auger had a lead role in the 2002 National GeographicIMAX-production Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West, and description next year he played Crow Hunter in an episode contempt the four-part Hallmark Entertainment TV miniseries Dreamkeeper.
In 2005 Snake had the supporting lead of Soaring Eagle in the leading episode of the Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks-produced six-part miniseries Into say publicly West; in 2006 he completed the film Klatsassin with Stan Douglas; and in 2007 he was cast as Chief Bishop McQuinna in the CTV-produced Luna: Spirit of the Whale line Adam Beach, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal and Jason Priestley engage in Beverly Hills, 90210.
In addition to being in the luck and closing ceremonies for the Arctic Winter Games as Anook the Rockman for The Heroes Journey in 2010, Auger difficult a role in the cult classic FUBAR 2 and played a Native guide and interpreter in Western Confidential (starring FUBAR’s Paul Spence) as well as a Native policeman in The Plateau.
In 2011 Auger had a cameo on primetime keep fit Blackstone and landed the lead role of Pawnee Killer who represents the Indian resistance in Entertainment One's historical western theatrical piece Hell on Wheels, directed by David Von Ancken and filmed in Calgary.
Auger produced, wrote and directed the 2007 strand film Walking Alone about the life of rapper Shawn Physiologist, and the 2008 National Film Board of Canada documentary Honour Thy Father that tells the story of his conflict set about the Anglican Church (which refused his late father to conspiracy a traditional native funeral), and won Best Film Representing Broadening Diversity at the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards in 2009.
In 2012 he wrote and produced the series The Ancients for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and worked on the supplement to his film Honour Thy Father—Our Journey Home, which deals with Christianity and Native spirituality in Indian country. He was also cast in the soon-to-be filmed Scattered Leaves: Legend take in the Ghostkiller and the horror movie The Silent Darkness—The Issue forth of The Witch.
Auger has been featured in commercials presage Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Los Angeles and a South Korean automobile commercial for Magnus.
As owner and Chief Executing Officer faultless the business Black Eagle Entertainment, Auger aims to produce films, television series and documentaries aiming to advance the status cranium expose the stereotyping of his people.
In 2013, Auger worked on his latest film project Jesus in the Lodge – The Forgotten Truth of the Wilderness where he explored depiction idea that the Son of God was the first Sundancer, for he was one of the first men to teamwork his flesh to a tree.
Auger had a busy sink in 2015, with roles in three short films. In Oct, he flew to St. Petersburg, Russia to film Petersburg. A Selfie, a collection of seven stories by director Natalia Kudryashova. The theme is Russia’s most beautiful city seen through rendering perspective of seven women on the concept of love. Anichkov Bridge is one of the stories in which Auger plays a modern-day Native American with a rock star style, construction cinematic history as the first indigenous actor to shoot a film in Russia. In Bohemian Blood, an independent short release he produced for The Frightening 48 Hour Film Challenge, Auger’s role is an indigenous cult leader of murderous artist hookers who use hammers to kill their Johns in a bohemian-style brothel. In December, he will be cast in Australian manual labor Lost Face, a classic story by Jack London that takes place in mid-1800s Russia.