Gail Maurice

Acting · Directing · Camera

Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning filmmaker. She created her own company Assini Productions to tell stories that highlight strong Indigenous female leads. She translates and speaks her language whenever she can on the big and little screen. She translated and played the role of Ida, in Night Raiders. She translated/co-wrote and played the role of Meetos, in Quebexit and won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020.

Filmography

• 2026Blood Lines — Leonore, Writer, Producer, Director
• 2026Nika & Madison — Chief Sampson
• 2024Aberdeen — Aberdeen
• Allegiance — Joann Paynter
• Don't Even
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Charlotte Malboeuf
• 2023Bones of Crows — Older Taylor Whallach
• Bones of Crows — Older Taylor Whallach
• 2022Rosie — Nancy, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2021Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
• 2021Night Raiders — Ida
• 2020Inconvenient Indian
• 2020Québexit — Meetos, Writer
• 2019Camera Test — Actress #2
• Diggstown — Annabel Draper
• 2019The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw — Annabelle Bearclaw
• 2018Falls Around Her — Inez
• 2018Rosie — Director
• Cardinal — Dorothy Pine
• 2016Four Faces of the Moon — Narrator (Michif/Cree), Translator
• 2015Assini — Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• Outlander — Tsotehweh
• 2014Wakening
• 2009Boxed In
• 2007Finn's Girl — Nancy
• 2005Smudge — Additional Photography, Director, Writer
• Street Time — Skye Nighthawk
• 2000Johnny Greyeyes — Johnny Greyeyes, Writer
• 1998Big Bear — Nowakich
• 1996Giant Mine — Technician
• 1995City of Dreams
• Wind River: Rising — Annie Hanson