Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning independent filmmaker and Arts Laureate. She is a 2 time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a television series for Trickster and a feature film for Night Raiders. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a feature film by the American Indian Film Institute for her work in The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw. She translated English to Cree, in Night Raiders. She won Best Screenplay for Quebexit at the Whistler film festival in which she was also a supporting actress and translator. She was recurring in Barkskins a BBC/National Geographic production, was Rita Colchak in Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone, Dorothy Pine in the hit CTV series Cardinal, Sarah in the award-winning detective web series Cold, Inez in Falls Around Her, Annabelle Bearclaw in The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw and Coyote in The Inconvenient Indian. She just finished her feature film directorial debut Rosie, which she also wrote & produced.