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Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree actor and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1] He is the son of Georgina Lightning, and brother of William Lightning and Crystle Lightning.

He was a Young Artist Award nominee in 1999 for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor, for Smoke Signals (1998), and won the American Indian Film Festival award for Best Actor in 2007 for Four Sheets to the Wind.

In 2023 he wrote, directed and starred in his directorial debut film Hey, Viktor!, a mockumentary in which a fictionalized version of himself struggles to reestablish his faded career as an actor by creating his own sequel to Smoke Signals.[2]

Selected filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1993 Geronimo Young Daklugie TV movie
1997 The Brave Frankie
1998 Smoke Signals Young Victor Joseph Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor
2001 Manic Kenny
2003 Dreamkeeper Sixth Brother
2005 Brick The Lug
2007 Four Sheets to the Wind Cufe Smallhill American Indian Film Festival for Best Actor
2021 Run Woman Run Mike
2023 Hey, Viktor! Cody Also director, writer
2024 Echo Cousin Biscuits

References

  1. ^ Kerry Benjoe, "Indigenous film world filled with people passionate about their art". Regina Leader-Post, December 12, 2015.
  2. ^ Gary M. Kramer, "'We need to laugh': 'Hey, Viktor' is a much-needed send-up of Native dysfunction and Hollywood". Salon, June 12, 2023.

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