Amber Midthunder

Amber Midthunder is an American actress who began with a small part in Sunshine Cleaning (2008) and built a career across television and film. She was born in Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, and spent much of her childhood in Santa Fe, later working in New Mexico productions before moving to Los Angeles at 17. On television she had regular roles in Legion and Roswell, New Mexico and appeared in Longmire, Banshee, and Reservation Dogs. She played a trucker in The Ice Road (2021), then starred as Naru in Prey (2022), the fifth Predator film, a performance that drew wide praise. Prey was the first Hollywood franchise movie with an all-Native American cast and the first feature with a full Comanche language dub. For Prey she received a Saturn Award for Breakthrough Performance and a Critics' Choice nomination. She later co-starred in Novocaine (2025) and Opus (2025).