Sheila Tousey

Sheila Tousey

1960-06-04 Keshena, Wisconsin,USA 21 Credits

Biography

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 ma...

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Manahatta

Manahatta

2021

as Bobbie / Mother / Ensemble

Acting

In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story ill...

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

2021

as Cicero / Plebeian / Ensemble

10.0
Acting

This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare's...

Johnny Tootall

2005

as Agnes

Acting

Discharged from Bosnian war, Johnny carries the weight of this war on his shoulders. He left the war with a dark and frightening secret, the murder of...

Dreamkeeper

Dreamkeeper

2003

as Janine

6.6
Acting

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take ...

Coyote Waits

Coyote Waits

2003

as Emma Leaphorn

5.2
Acting

A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual ...

This So-Called Disaster

This So-Called Disaster

2003

as Chonchella

4.2
Acting

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

Skinwalkers

Skinwalkers

2002

as Emma Leaphorn

6.6
Acting

Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medic...

Christmas in the Clouds

Christmas in the Clouds

2001

as Mary

6.1
Acting

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation...

Wildflowers

Wildflowers

2000

as Martha

4.4
Acting

A melancholic 17-year-old raised on a small commune by her father encounters a free-spirited older woman she is convinced is her birth mother.

Backroads

Backroads

2000

as Grace Nelson

Acting

A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.

Ravenous

Ravenous

1999

as Martha

6.8
Acting

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving...

Sparkler

Sparkler

1997

as Hurricane

2.5
Acting

Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel ...

All the Winters that Have Been

All the Winters that Have Been

1997

as Irene (as Sheila M. Tousey)

4.5
Acting

Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him agai...

Song of Hiawatha

Song of Hiawatha

1997

as Nokomis

6.0
Acting

This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe leader as he falls in love and strives for peace.

Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue

1996

as Mollie

9.0
Acting

When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, ...

Lord of Illusions

Lord of Illusions

1995

as Jennifer Desiderio

6.0
Acting

During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of...

Slaughter of the Innocents

Slaughter of the Innocents

1993

as Agent Lemar

5.4
Acting

A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a...

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

1993

as Annie

1.0
Acting

Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space...

Silent Tongue

Silent Tongue

1993

as Awbonnie / Ghost

4.6
Acting

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bur...

Medicine River

Medicine River

1993

as Louise Heavyman

6.0
Acting

When photographer Will returns home for his mother's funeral he gets more than he bargained for from a strange cast of characters on the reservation.

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992

as Maggie Eagle Bear

6.3
Acting

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.