Devery Jacobs
Biography
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (born August 8, 1993) is a Canadian 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 and 2024, for her role in Reservation Dogs, she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Jacobs began acting in the late 2000s with roles in the television series The Dead Zone (2007) and Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009).[citation needed] 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."
