Devery Jacobs

Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs is a Canadian Mohawk actress who began acting in the late 2000s with television work on The Dead Zone and Assassin's Creed: Lineage. In 2013 she took the lead in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and brought her a Canadian Screen Award nomination in the leading actress category. She later played Sam Black Crow in the second season of American Gods and Lilith Bathory, a recurring part, in the Netflix series The Order. From 2021 to 2023 she was one of the leads on the acclaimed Reservation Dogs, set among Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, and she was nominated at the Critics' Choice Television Awards for her comic lead performance; she also wrote for the series and directed an episode. In 2024 she shared the Radius Award at the Canadian Screen Awards with Lamar Johnson.