Alyssa Wapanatâhk
Acting
Biography
Alyssa Wapanatâhk is a Canadian actress and a member of the Cree (Nêhiyaw) First Nation.
Born: January 15, 1998
Place of Birth: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Known For
Riverdale
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Bones of Crows
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Peter Pan & Wendy
Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tiny fairy, Tinker Bell, she travels with Peter to the magical world of Neverland. There, she encounters an evil pirate captain, Captain Hook, and embarks on a thrilling adventure that will change her life forever.
Rehab
A First Nations man takes a famous actor back to the reserve to help him cope with his drug addiction.
Cottonmouth
When Ed Dantes is framed and condemned to the tortures of a territorial prison in the 1895, he must learn the ways of the outlaw to escape and exact his revenge.
Filmography
as Sophia
as Perseverance Spears
as Tiger Lily
as Chloe
as Lizzo