Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs

Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (born August 8, 1993), occasionally credited as Devery Jacobs, is a Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) actress. She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls.

Career

Jacobs has appeared in the films South of the Moon and Assassin's Creed: Lineage, as well as the television series Stephen King's Dead Zone, Being Human and Mohawk Girls.

In 2013, Jacobs 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.

In 2014, she appeared in the music video for A Tribe Called Red's "Sisters".

In the 2019, second season of American Gods, she plays a young Cherokee woman, Sam Black Crow, who self-identifies as "two-spirited". In an interview she says, "I identify as queer, and not two-spirited, because I’m Mohawk and we don’t have that" and that Neil Gaiman (author of the novels on which the series is based) advocated strongly for her to be cast in the role.

Also in 2019, she played a recurring role as Lilith Bathory in the first season of Netflix series, The Order.

Personal life

Jacobs is Mohawk. At the time of her performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Jacobs was a student in the correctional intervention program at John Abbott College.

Awards