Devery Jacobs facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Devery Jacobs
Jacobs in 2017
Born	(1993-08-08) August 8, 1993 (age 30) Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
Other names	Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present
Known for	Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Mohawk Girls, American Gods, The Order, Reservation Dogs

Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (born August 8, 1993) is a Mohawk actress, writer, and director. For her performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), she garnered a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Actress. In 2023, for her role on Reservation Dogs, she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Career

Jacobs began acting in the late 2000s with roles in the television series The Dead Zone (2007) and Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009). In 2013, she played the lead character in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. For her work in the film, Jacobs was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a leading role. The following year, she appeared in the music video for A Tribe Called Red's "Sisters".

In 2019, in the second season of American Gods, Jacobs played a young Cherokee college student, Sam Black Crow, who identifies as "two-spirited". In an interview, she said that Neil Gaiman (author of the novels on which the series is based) advocated strongly for her to be cast in the role, but noted:

"I identify as queer, and not two-spirited, because I’m Mohawk and we don’t have that."

Also in 2019, Jacobs played a recurring role as Lilith Bathory in the first and second season of the Netflix series The Order. Since 2021, she has played a leading role on the acclaimed TV series Reservation Dogs about a group of Indigenous teenagers growing up on a reservation in rural Oklahoma. For the role, she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in 2023. In season 2, she also joined the writer's room of the show. In season 3, she directed episode 7, 'Wahoo!'.

Personal life

Jacobs is Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk). At the time of her performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Jacobs was a student at John Abbott College, studying correctional intervention. She identifies as queer. Jacobs collaborates with Canadian filmmaker D. W. Waterson through their production company called Night is Y.

Filmography

Awards

See also

In Spanish: Devery Jacobs para niños