Joe Buffalo

Joe Buffalo is a Cree skateboarder and actor from Canada, born in 1976, who is most noted as a two-time Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film, for Hello Destroyer in 2016 and for Luk'Luk'I in 2017. He is a 2023 recipient of the Inspire Award in the sports category. A member of the Samson Cree Nation in Alberta, he is the great-grandson of a former deputy chief of the same name who acted in the 1958 film The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw and the great-grand nephew of the actor Gordon Tootoosis. A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he moved to Ottawa after school to begin his skateboarding career, struggled with substance abuse in his early years and, since getting sober, has served as an advocate.