Martin Sensmeier

Martin Sensmeier is an American actor of Alaska Native background, Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan, whose work often centers on Native American characters. Born in Anchorage and raised in Yakutat, he began as a welder and worked on an oil rig before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, supporting himself with modeling assignments there and in New York while finding roles. The sci-fi thriller Beyond the Sky became his first feature film. He took a leading part in The Magnificent Seven (2016) and played Chip Hanson in Wind River (2017). In the biographical drama Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021), he had the lead as Montford Johnson, a Chickasaw man who built a ranching empire. On television, he appeared as Wanahton in the 2018 season of Westworld, a physical therapist in Yellowstone, and the Comanche warrior Sam in 1883. He also voiced Chief Eddy in the video game Tell Me Why and starred in the western thriller Cottonmouth.