Jay Tavare

Jay Tavare /ˈtævɑːˈreɪ/ is a Native American film actor and a blogger for The Huffington Post.^[1] He attended the University of Southern California, in which he dropped out to pursue acting. In 1999, Tavare won the Best Actor Award at the American Indian Film Festival for his role in Unbowed.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Street Fighter	Vega	^[2]
1996	Executive Decision	Nabill
1999	Unbowed	Waka Mani
2000	Escape to Grizzly Mountain	Tukayoo
2002	Adaptation	Matthew Osceola	^[3]
2003	Cold Mountain	Swimmer
2003	El Padrino (film)	Special Agent Sanchez
2003	The Missing	Kayitah	^[4]
2007	Pathfinder	Black Wing	^[5]
2008	Turok: Son of Stone	Koba (voice)	Direct-to-video
2011	Vatos Locos	Jimmy Cavera	Direct-to-video
2014	Off Track	Pui	Short film
2015	Bone Tomahawk	Sharp Teeth
2015	The Fifth Sum	Moctezuma
2015	The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)	Inmate 346

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Into the West	Chief Prairie Fire	Episode: "Manifest Destiny"
2008	CSI: Miami	Manny Ortega	Episode: "Going Ballistic"
2012	Longmire	Reuben Lamebull	Episode: "Dogs, Horses and Indians"

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Street Fighter: The Movie	Vega	Console
1995	Street Fighter: The Movie	Vega	Arcade
2005	Gun	Stone Hand / Native American 2
2009	Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood	Running River
2010	Red Dead Redemption	Pedestrian / Background Character
2015	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain	Code Talker

^ Tavare, Jay. "Adopt a Native Elder: When the Spirit Moves You..." Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Harrington, Richard (December 24, 1994). "Movies; `Fighter': Stay Home With The Joystick". The Washington Post (subscription required). Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Ebert, Roger (September 19, 2008). "Magnificent Obsession". Chicago Sun-Times (subscription required). Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Pillay, Suzanna (March 6, 2004). "A family lost, and found". New Straits Times (subscription required). Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Wilmington, Michael (April 13, 2007). "9th Century path strewn with a lot of blood, guts.(Movie review)(Video recording review)". Chicago Tribune (subscription required). Retrieved 9 December 2014.