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My Take
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.
Overview
Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor of Algonquin-Anishinaabe/Cree heritage and hails from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nations Community. He is most noted for his performance as Pasmay in the 2021 film Wildhood, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Heritage College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.