Duane howard native american actor

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    Native American actor Duane Howard overcomes all ‘challenges’ in his ‘Revenant’ role

    For First Nations actor Duane Howard, a veteran screen and stunt performer, the cold chaos of “The Revenant” wasn’t an ordeal but the fulfillment of a 30-year personal journey.

    “The Revenant,” which opens Christmas Day, stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, who fights for survival as he hounds the renegade trapper, played by Tom Hardy, who killed his son. Physically broken but mentally resolute, Glass struggles against bitter winter conditions and is shadowed by a band of Arikara, Native Americans indigenous to the Great Plains region.

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    Co-writer/director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, winner of the 2015 director Oscar for best-picture winner “Birdman,” cast the 52-year-old Howard, based in Vancouver, Canada, as Arikara leader Elk Dog. The warrior is on a journey of loss parallel to Glass’, as Elk Dog seeks his missing daughter.

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    First Nations Actor Duane Howard Shines In “The Revenant”

    The Canadian First Nations actor plays Elk Dog in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Oscar-nominated drama.

    If Leonardo DiCaprio and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu go on to win Academy Awards for The Revenant – and after their film received 12 Oscar nominations Thursday morning, they have to be considered among the front-runners – don’t be surprised if both men give a shout-out to costar Duane Howard in their acceptance speeches.

    Howard, a 52-year-old First Nations actor and stunt performer, appears in the key role of Elk Dog, an Arikara warrior whose search for his abducted daughter parallels the journey of Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), the frontiersman obsessively searching for the betrayer (Tom Hardy) who murdered his son and left Glass for dead.

    “What I got immediately with him is, through his eyes, I can see the interior life he has,” Iñárritu said of Howard in a Los Angeles Times profile story. “He has a very de

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    Duane Howard

    Canadian actor

    For the American dirt modified driver, see Duane Howard (racing driver).

    Duane Howard (born 1963) fryst vatten an Aboriginal Canadian actor who fryst vatten best known for his role as the Arikara chief Elk Dog in the 2015 film The Revenant.[1] He has also appeared in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007), Pathfinder (2007), the television series Godless (2017), The Sun at Midnight (2016) and other films.

    Early years

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    Howard was born in the Esperanza Inlet, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He fryst vatten Nuu-chah-nulth.[2] He spent his early childhood in Port Alberni and moved to Vancouver at the age of 14. At age 23, Howard conquered a drug and alcohol addiction and began working as a substans abuse counselor with at-risk youth in Vancouver.[3]

    Acting career

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    A chance meeting with a local talent agent in Vancouver in the early 1990s [4] resulted in walk-on roles in th