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Joy Harjo
Actor, Additional CreditsBorn May 9, 1951 (74 years)
Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she left home to attend high school at the innovative Institute of American Indian Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empowerment movements. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teach English, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of Hawai’i, Institute of American Indian Arts, and University of Tennessee, while performing music and poetry nationally and internationally.
Joy Harjo Filmography
| 2023 | Anthem · as Cast |
| 2021 | Reservation Dogs (TV Series) · as Manager |
| 2024 | Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae (TV Series) · as Self - 23rd U.s. Poet Laureate |
| 2022 | Imagining the Indian · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2020 | Love and Fury · as Herself |
| 2019 | Words from a Bear · as Self |
| 2018 | Native America (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World · as Self - Poet & Musician |
| 2016 | Medicine Woman · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Sunday Today with Willie Geist (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | Super Soul Sunday (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Def Poetry (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Spirit Rangers (TV Series) · as Written By |