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Billy Merasty (b. 1960 Brochet, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor and writer of Cree descent. He moved to Toronto at the age of 17, and launched his acting career after attending a theatre school program for aboriginal youth.
Since then, he has worked extensively on the stage as an actor and writer for Toronto's Native Earth Performing Arts. His credits include The Confessional, Exotica, Pocahontas: The Legend, TNT's miniseries Into the West, The New World and HBO's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
He has written two plays: Fireweed, (produced in 1992) and For Godly and Divinia (2001).
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Billy Merasty (b. 1960 Brochet, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor and writer of Cree descent. He moved to Toronto at the age of 17, and launched his acting career after attending a theatre school program for aboriginal youth.
Since then, he has worked extensively on the stage as an actor and writer for Toronto's Native Earth Performing Arts. His credits include The Confessional, Exotica, Pocahontas: The Legend, TNT's miniseries Into the West, The New World and HBO's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
He has written two plays: Fireweed, (produced in 1992) and For Godly and Divinia (2001).
Merasty is openly gay, and is related to playwright Tomson Highway and dancer René Highway. LESS
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