10 Famous Native American Female Celebrities Of All Time

Megan Fox is a famous native American celebrity. Fox belongs to the Powhatan indigenous tribe.

Fox was born on 16 May 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. However, the actress's parents, Gloria Darlene Tonachio and Franklin Thomas Fox, raised her in Rockwood, Tennessee.

The 36-year-old was born to American parents. Nonetheless, the actress has native American ancestry since her great-great-grandmother Mary Powhatan was believed to be of the Powhatan Native American tribe. The Powhatan people are the indigenous Algonquian people that lived in eastern Virginia. 

The Tennessee-born started her career as a model at the young age of 13 and went on to win the American Modelling and Talent Convention in 1999, held in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The young model made her debut with the movie Holiday in the Sun in 2001. Fox appeared in the role of Brianna in the comedy-drama directed by Steve Purcell. The teenager's first major on-screen appearance was in the 2002 TV series Ocean Ave where she played lone Starr for 116 episodes in two years.

The breakthrough in the actress's career came in 2007 after she starred in the blockbuster movie Transformers. Fox was cast opposite Shia LaBeouf in the sci-fi movie directed by Michael Bay.

Fox married Brian Austin Green on 24 June 2010, with whom she has three children - Noah Green, Bodhi Green, and Journey Green. The couple got divorced on 8 February 2022.

Megan Fox is active on Instagram with 20.7 million followers. You can follow the actress for more updates on her recent activities.

Joanelle Romero is among the older native American actresses. She is also a filmmaker and best known as the founder of Red Nation Television Network and Red Nation International Film Festival.

Red Nation film festival is an award show that honors the accomplishments of Independent Motion Pictures and documentaries by American Indians.

She belongs to the three sub-tribes Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache tribe, Dinétah tribe, and Paiute Nations tribe. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

She is also related to the Pawnee, Southern Ute, Pojoaque, Haudenosaunee, and Lakota. Her dad is from the Jicarilla Reservation and her great-grandmother from her mom's father's side was born in the homeland of the Mescalero Nation.

Tonantzin Carmelo is a Native American actress from South California. She belongs to the Tongva and Kumeyaay Native Americans of Southern California.

Her mother is the Indigenous American descent, while her father is a singer of Italian origin.

She takes pride in her Aboriginal ancestry and describes herself as an Urban-Indian. She has played various Native American roles in movies and series. She has played the lead role in the TNT series "Into the West."

Marisa Quintanilla is an actress, performer, and visual artist from Texas. Quintanilla has an indigenous heritage of Lipan Apache tribe.

Quintanilla was born in McAllen, Texas, on 8 August 1980. She carries a rich native American heritage that belongs to the Lipan Apache group, a Southern Athabaskan Indigenous people. The actress is a member of the federally recognized Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas.

The Longmire actress has been married to her husband, Daane, for six years. Daane is an entrepreneur and traveler who tied the knot with Quintanilla on 26 February 2021. The couple celebrated their fifth marriage anniversary in 2021 in Tulum, Mexico.

The Texas-born is a multi-talented entertainer who has been in the business for over 16 years. Quintanilla made her debut as an actress in 2006 with the short movie Road House 2: Last Call. Other notable works of the actress include Sons of Anarchy, Castle, Longmire, and Dead Men. The artist has established an organization, Monarch Media Productions, to generate innovative contents to promote diversity.

The 42-year-old is also a talented music artist who has performed as a professional vocalist in the US and Mexico. In 2022, the musician sang in the Christmas show at Idyllwild Actors Theater in California.

 Quintanilla's Instagram profile has over 4.3K followers. Make sure to follow her to learn more about the talented actress.

Yvonne DeLaRosa is an American actress, activist, and philanthropist. DeLaRosa belongs to the Cheyenne Indian tribe.

DeLaRosa was born to a native American father and a Colombian mother in Los Angeles, California. The actress's father belongs to the Cheyenne Indians, the indigenous people of the Great Plains.

The activist is married to Sam Boyer, a popular Extreme Sports director known for creating Board TV. The couple currently resides in Malibu, California, with their daughter.

The Los Angeles-born studied theatre since the age of 5 and graduated from the high school for the performing arts at Hollywood High. After graduation, the actress became a member of the prestigious UCLA Theatre film and TV program, where she earned her Bachelor's degree in directing and Master's in screenwriting.

The actress made her on-screen debut in 1998 with a movie titled Truly. DeLaRosa's appearance in the 2003 TV movie "Senor White" was the breakthrough in her career. In 24 active years of her career, the American has 39 acting credits, of which the most notable are Helter Skelter, Blue Sombrero, Final Destination, Longmire, and NYPD Blue.

DeLaRosa is a passionate activist and supporter of social, wildlife, and environmental causes. The activist is also an advocate of legal cannabis and has created the world's first upscale dispensary and hybrid art gallery in the US.

Amber Midthunder is an actress with a Native American heritage. Midthunder was born in New Mexico and belongs to the Assiniboine tribe.

The Assiniboine people, also known as Nakota, originally lived in the Northern Great Plains of North America. Today many federally recognized bands of Assiniboine, Nakota, Lakota, and Dakota people live at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, which is located near Fort Peck, Montana.

The actress was born to her parents Angelique and David on 26 April 1997. Midthunder's mother is originally from Thailand and is a casting director and stunt performer by profession. Her father, David, is an actor who met Angelique on the set of the Japanese film East Meets West.

The New Mexican was passionate about acting from an early age and got an initial push when she shared the screen with Oscar winner Alan Arkin in Sunshine Cleaning at the age of nine. 

The American has been widely successful on TV and made appearances in hit series such as Banshee, Longmire, The Originals, and Legion. The most recent involvement the actress is in the series Roswell, New Mexico, where she plays the role of Rosa Ortecho.

The 26-year-old has done feature films with high-profile celebrities. The actress appeared alongside Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine in the 2016 movie Hell or High Water and Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in the 2021 movie The Ice Road. Her latest venture was the action-adventure sci-fi movie Prey in 2022, where she played the lead character Naru.

Midthunder is an official tribal member at the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. Other than acting, the actress is an animal rights and environmental activist. Follow the New Mexican on Instagram to keep yourself posted about her ventures, where she has 228K followers.

Also Read: List of Native American Tribes That No Longer Exist

Rosario Isabel Dawson is an American native actress because of her indigenous American father Patrick C. Harris. Her mother Isabel Celeste is of Puerto Rican descent.

Rosario was born in New York, USA on May 9, 1979. She has appeared in many movies and Tv shows like Haunted Mansion, Justice League, and more.

She is married to Greg Dawson and the couple has a daughter named Isabella Dawson.

Princess Nokia is a famous American rapper and songwriter. Nokia was born in New York City on 14 June 1992.

The rapper is of Puerto Rican descent and identifies herself as Afro-Indigenous, also known as Black Indian. These tribes are affiliated with Native American communities with significant African American heritage.

Born as Destiny Nicole Frasqueri, life was difficult for the artist as a child as she lost her mother to AIDS when she was ten. Nokia grew up in a foster home until turning 16, where she was subject to harsh treatment from her foster mother.

The New Yorker started her professional career as a music artist in 2010 when she released her first song, "Destiny." Her debut studio album Metallic Butterfly came out on 12 May 2014, followed by a mix tape titled Honeysuckle in 2015. The rapper released two studio albums in 2020, Everything Sucks and Everything Is Beautiful.

Nokia made her on-screen appearance as an actress in the 2017 TV series New York Minute. Other works as an actress include Angelfish, Gossip Girl, and Daughter of the Sea.

Princess Nokia is available on Instagram with 1 million followers. She shares about her tour and the latest music updates through her social media.

Q'orianka Kilcher is an indigenous American actress with mixed background. She is an adopted member of the Diné (Navajo) tribe.

Her dad is Peruvian Quechua-Huachipaeri and her mom is of Swiss-German descent. She was born on February 11, 1990 in Germany.

Kilcher is best known from the "Yellowstone." But she has played many roles like Pocahontas in The New World (2005) and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). Having aboriginal origin herself she perfectly blends for the native American roles in the movies.

Traci Bingham is an American actress with indigenous background. She is related to the Cherokee indigenous people from her father's side. Her mom is of Italian descent.

Traci was born in North Cambridge, MA, in 1968. The American actress is best known for her roles in NBC Baywatch, Martin, and more.