Wes Studi Quotes


People talk about gangs as if they're something new. But it really isn't that way. The Democratic Party is a gang. The Republican Party is a gang. They're just not in the streets anymore.


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Parker, Melissa. "Wes Studi Interview: Actor Talks 'Hostiles' and Protecting Mother Earth." Smashing Interviews Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017.

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Wes Studi
Wes Studi
  • Born: December 17, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Producer

Wesley Studi is a Cherokee American actor and film producer who has won critical acclaim and awards, particularly for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and The New World (2005). He is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994). Other films he has appeared in are Hostiles, Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and the television series Penny Dreadful. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second Indigenous person from North America to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie). In 2020, The New York Times ranked him #19 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.