Billy Merasty

Billy Merasty

Billy Merasty is an actor, playwright, Cree translator, and language keeper. He was born to Viola and Pierre Merasty in 1960 in Brochet, Manitoba. His grandfather was Joe Highway, a famous caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. He moved to Toronto at age eighteen in search for his uncle René Highway, who was at the time working for the Toronto Dance Theatre. At age twenty-three Billy launched his acting career after graduating from the Native Theatre School for aspiring Indigenous artists. He then went on to work for the renowned Indigenous performing arts company Native Earth Performing Arts. Billy has worked as a film, television, and stage actor for decades and notably played the first Indigenous gay character on television on the CBC series, Liberty Street, in the role of Nathan. Billy received the Order of Manitoba (Order of the Buffalo Hunt) in recognition for his many years as an Indigenous role model in 2010.

  • Title: Billy Merasty
  • Popularity: 2.373
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1960-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
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Billy Merasty Movies

  • 1994
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    Exotica

    Exotica

    6.632 1994 HD

    In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend,...

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  • 2009
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    Northern Lights

    Northern Lights

    5.8 2009 HD

    Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a...

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  • 2005
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    The Big White

    The Big White

    6.2 2005 HD

    To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

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  • 2007
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    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

    6.5 2007 HD

    Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles...

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  • 1995
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    Pocahontas: The Legend

    Pocahontas: The Legend

    5.8 1995 HD

    Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.

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  • 2004
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    Battle of the Brave

    Battle of the Brave

    6.1 2004 HD

    In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

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  • 2023
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    Café Daughter

    Café Daughter

    1 2023 HD

    In a small Saskatchewan town in the 1960s, Yvette Wong, a young girl of Chinese and Cree heritage, struggles with her Indigenous identity amidst...

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  • 1995
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    Les Légendes du Grand Nord

    Les Légendes du Grand Nord

    1 1995 HD

    A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.

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  • 2005
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    The New World

    The New World

    6.5 2005 HD

    A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

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  • 1990
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    The Shaman's Source

    The Shaman's Source

    1 1990 HD

    Three Ojibway Natives race to find a mystical ancestral spring before a ruthless industrialist claim it.

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  • 2022
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    Stellar

    Stellar

    1 2022 HD

    Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life,...

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  • 1998
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    Honey Moccasin

    Honey Moccasin

    4 1998 HD

    This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the...

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  • 1992
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    The Broken Cord

    The Broken Cord

    5 1992 HD

    Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and...

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  • 1989
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    Snake Treaty

    Snake Treaty

    1 1989 HD

    Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has...

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  • 2008
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    Elijah

    Elijah

    1 2008 HD

    The story of Elijah Harper.....

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  • 2024
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    Aberdeen

    Aberdeen

    7 2024 HD

    An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s...

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  • 2019
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    It Chapter Two

    It Chapter Two

    6.843 2019 HD

    27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from...

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  • 1995
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    The Confessional

    The Confessional

    6.4 1995 HD

    Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his...

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  • 2013
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    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    1 2013 HD

    Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is...

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  • 2019
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    The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw

    The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw

    4 2019 HD

    As MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city to pursue her dream of designing hats or leave...

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  • 1994
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    X-Rated

    X-Rated

    1 1994 HD

    A man is asked by his parents to run an apartment complex they own and becomes acquainted with an intriguing hippie girl and various other people...

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  • 2000
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    Stardom

    Stardom

    5.6 2000 HD

    A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.

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  • 1995
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    Liberty Street

    Liberty Street

    1 1995 HD

    Liberty Street was a Canadian drama television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1995. Produced by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler, the team...

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  • 2007
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    Moose TV

    Moose TV

    1 2007 HD

    Moose TV is a Canadian television sitcom, airing on Showcase in the 2007-08 television season. The show stars Adam Beach as George Keeshig, a Cree...

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  • 2004
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    Wonderfalls

    Wonderfalls

    7.7 2004 HD

    Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is...

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  • 1995
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    No Price Too High

    No Price Too High

    10 1995 HD

    The Canadian contribution to World War Two was extraordinary in scale and variety. More than one million people, out of nation of just eleven...

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  • 2022
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    Acting Good

    Acting Good

    1 2022 HD

    After a botched attempt to move to Winnipeg, Paul retreats back to his eccentric family in the fly-in community of Grouse Lake First Nation.

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  • 2011
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    Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    5.7 2011 HD

    The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

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  • 1999
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    Relic Hunter

    Relic Hunter

    6.7 1999 HD

    Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the...

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  • 2004
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    This Is Wonderland

    This Is Wonderland

    9 2004 HD

    Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the...

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  • 2019
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    Diggstown

    Diggstown

    6.8 2019 HD

    Follow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved aunt commits suicide following a malicious prosecution.

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