Jay Tavare

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Jay Tavare
Born Navajo Reservation
Occupation Film actor
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Jay Tavare is an American actor. He has played a number of Native Americans in movies, including a Seminole in Adaptation, an Apache in The Missing, a Cherokee in Cold Mountain, and a Cheyenne in Into the West.

His mother was White Mountain Apache and his father was Navajo.

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Year Title Role
1994 Street Fighter Vega
1996 Executive Decision Nabill
1999 Unbowed Waka Mani
2000 Escape to Grizzly Mountain Tukayoo
2002 Adaptation Matthew Osceola
2003 The Missing Kayitah
Cold Mountain Swimmer
2004 El Padrino Special Agent Sanchez
2005 Into the West (TV miniseries) Chief Prairie Fire
2006 Pathfinder Black Wing
2008 Turok: Son of Stone (Voiced) Koba
2008 CSI: Miami (Tv): Going Ballistic Manny Ortega

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