Joshua Odjick

Joshua Odjick is the kind of young actor I find easy to champion. Of Algonquin-Anishinaabe and Cree heritage from the Kitigan Zibi community, he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for Wildhood in 2022, an extraordinary marker for someone born in 2001. What moves me is not just the trophy but what it represents: an Indigenous performer carrying his own identity onto the screen and being recognized for it. That sense of rootedness tends to give an actor real presence and conviction. I suspect he becomes one of the faces shaping Canadian cinema in the years ahead, and I am quietly cheering him on.

Name (English)

Joshua Odjick

Name (Japanese)

ジョシュア・オジック

Reading

じょしゅあ・おじっく

Born

October 28, 2001 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Occupation

film actor / television actor

University

Heritage College

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Ontario
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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