Kimberly Guerrero

An American actress and screenwriter, Kimberly Norris Guerrero often plays Indigenous women and has more than two dozen screen credits. Born in Oklahoma in 1967 and raised in Idabel, Oklahoma, she made her acting debut in the 1991 miniseries Son of the Morning Star as Kate Bighead, Gen. George Armstrong Custer's American Indian wife. She went on to appear on As the World Turns. Her television work includes Seinfeld, where she played Jerry Seinfeld's Native American girlfriend Winona in The Cigar Store Indian, plus Longmire, Grey's Anatomy, Walker, Texas Ranger and The Sopranos. She played Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nation chief, in The Cherokee Word for Water, a performance praised by Gloria Steinem, and wrote and directed the 2001 short Standing Cloud. She also originated the role of Johnna Monevata in August: Osage County and is a professor at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a finalist for the Humanitas Award in Screenwriting.