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Grace Dove is an Indigenous Actress and Director who has embraced a responsibility to lift up her audience and her community.
In 2015 she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in the Oscar-winning film The Revenant. Other recent film credits include the Netflix thriller How It Ends (2018). In 2020 she appeared in her first leading role in the feature film adaptation of Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach. Her past television credits include a series lead beside Hilary Swank on ABC Alaska Daily.
In 2020 Dove made her directorial debut with the well-received short film Kiri and The Girl, which debuted at the Vancouver International Film Fest and is currently streaming on Apple TV.
Dove recently wrapped filming the five-part limited series Bones of Crows, where she stars as Cree Matriarch “Aline Spears”. Bones of Crows tells the story of Spears’ childhood as she survives Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse.
She also facilitates her youth-empowerment program “Thunderbird Dreams” in communities, directing short films that are unique to each Nation. “I had the dream of becoming an actress, and to tell stories of Indigenous resilience. I created the vision, and I didn’t let anyone tell me it’s not possible.”
