Morningstar
Angeline

THEY/THEM/THEIRS

SHE/HER/HERS

DINÉ (NAVAJO), CHIPPEWA, BLACKFEET, SHOSHONE, & LATINX

SAG-AFTRA ACTOR & FILMMAKER

Morningstar Angeline is a queer Navajo, Chippewa, Blackfeet, Shoshone, and Latinx actor and filmmaker. She was born in Santa Fe, NM, and raised in Gallup, NM and the Los Angeles, CA area by her mother Rita Rose Wilson, father Ethan Shawn Chippewa and stepfather, Daniel H. Freeland.

Morningstar is alumni of the Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Lab and NBCU Launch Initiative. Her most recent short film, Seeds, enjoyed a critically acclaimed festival run at ImagineNative, SFiFF, Palm Springs International Shorts Fest, National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, among numerous others. Her feature film directorial debut Caroline will be completed in 2025 and their second feature, Rowdy By Nature will continue development. Additionally, Morningstar has a feature documentary film in development called, Ceremony to Commodity: The Battle Over Peyote.

She is a lead in two upcoming feature films, Radon's Daughters and Sky Valley and starred in 2023 film Frybread Face and Me, which was directed by Billy Luther and executive produced by Taika Waititi. She will be in the HBO's upcoming IT prequel series Welcome to Derry and also heavily recurred on Echo for Marvel, Westworld for HBO, Outer Range for Amazon and Yellowstone for Paramount. Other credits include the 2014 Sundance feature, Drunktown's Finest.