Michelle Thrush

Acting

Michelle Thrush

Born February 6, 1967 · Calgary, Alberta, Canada (age 59)

Michelle Thrush is a Canadian actor and activist. Thrush is best known for her leading role as Gail Stonee in Blackstone for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in 2011, and her recurring roles as Sylvia LeBret in North of 60 and Deanna Martin in Arctic Air. Thrush starred in the Palme d'Or and Cesar award nominated film Jimmy P:…

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PreyPrey · 2022
Prey
7.72022
MovieThrillerAction
When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.
Dead ManDead Man · 1995
Dead Man
7.31995
MovieDramaFantasy
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
PathfinderPathfinder · 2007
Pathfinder
5.72007
MovieAdventureAction
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeBury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.52007
MovieWesternDrama
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Trial By Fire: A North of 60 MysteryTrial By Fire: A North of 60 Mystery · 2000
Trial By Fire: A North of 60 Mystery
9.02000
MovieDramaTV Movie
Blood may be thicker than water, but when RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi’s brother becomes a suspect in a deadly case of arson, only one thing matters – the truth. As the evidence against her brother continues to mount, Michelle tries to defend him – but gradually realizes that he has been lying to her. Torn between her sense of duty and her loyalty to her brother, she must trust her instincts to find out what Peter has been hiding – no matter what the cost.
Jimmy P.Jimmy P. · 2013
Jimmy P.
6.12013
MovieDrama
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
SkinsSkins · 2002
Skins
5.32002
MovieActionDrama
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
LumiLumi
Lumi
MovieScience Fiction

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The NorthlanderThe Northlander · 2016
The Northlander
4.22016
MovieAdventureFantasy
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.

Nova

Children of the DustChildren of the Dust · 1995
Children of the Dust
7.11995
SeriesWesternDrama
Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

Rainbow Woman