Reservation Dogs

"Bear," portrayed by D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, grapples with his place in the world as he struggles to find his way home.&nbsp;

Career Highlights

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai is a 21-year-old Oji-Cree First Nations actor.&nbsp;Woon-A-Tai can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed, award-winning FX comedy series Reservation Dogs, earning him a 2023 Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.In its second season, Reservation Dogs made it onto the year-end best lists of Variety, The Ringer, HuffPost, The New York Times and TIME; it was nominated for the 2023 Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Series for the second year in a row; and was honored as one of AFI's Television Programs of the Year for the second year in a row. Variety named Reservation Dogs season two as the number one show of 2022.&nbsp;In its first season, Reservation Dogs landed on 80+ critics' year-end best lists, won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series – Short Form, won two Independent Spirit Awards and a Peabody Award. The show was also among seven programs recognized in 2022 by the Television Academy. The show's first season was also nominated for a Golden Globe® Award, two Writers Guild Awards and a 2022 Sentinel Award.&nbsp;Woon-A-Tai recently wrapped production on the films Bloody Hell, a coming-of-age "traumedy" opposite Emily Hampshire and Maddie Ziegler, and the indie thriller Only the Good Survive, from writer-director Dutch Southern. Both films premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival in March 2023. He will next be seen in Hell of a Summer, opposite Finn Wolfhard and Fred Hechinger, and was most recently seen in the new, dramatic, darkly comedic, digital scripted series Normal Ain't Normal. Woon-A-Tai's other film roles include Beans, an official Toronto International Film Festival 2020 selection and winner for Best Motion Picture from the Canadian Screen Awards.&nbsp;Woon-A-Tai currently resides between Los Angeles and his hometown of Toronto, Canada.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear Smallhill | Reservation Dogs | FX on Hulu

Reservation Dogs