Amber Midthunder

Amber Midthunder (born April 26, 1997)^[2] is an American actress.

Amber Midthunder
Midthunder in 2024
Born	(1997-04-26) April 26, 1997 (age 28) Shiprock, New Mexico, U.S.[1]
Citizenship	Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present

She had regular roles in the FX series Legion and The CW series Roswell, New Mexico, and also appeared on Longmire, Banshee, and Reservation Dogs.^[3][4][5] In 2022, she starred as Naru in Prey, the fifth installment and first prequel of the Predator franchise.^[6]

Early life

Midthunder's mother Angelique, who is originally from Thailand and of Thai-Chinese ancestry,^[7] is a casting director and stunt performer, and her father David is an actor of Hunkpapa Lakota, Sisseton Dakota, and Sahiyaiyeskabi Assiniboine descent;^[8][9] Angelique and David met while working on the 1995 Japanese film East Meets West.^[10]

Midthunder is a citizen of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe.^[11][12][13] She was born on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, and eventually returned there after spending much of her childhood in Santa Fe where she attended the Academy for Technology and the Classics and where her mother worked in a casting firm.^[10][14]

Career

Midthunder developed an interest in acting as a child. She would memorize and recite lines from her favorite shows. But she disliked her first experience in the job, leading her to take some time before another performance.^[15][16] She even considered a career in make-up, where she worked as an intern, or mixed martial arts, having trained and taught Brazilian jiu-jitsu.^[17][18]

Her first acting credit was a small role in 2008's Sunshine Cleaning.^[14] Midthunder worked in various productions filmed in New Mexico, then moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue more acting opportunities.^[17]

She played a hotshot trucker in the 2021 Liam Neeson thriller The Ice Road.^[19]

In 2022, Midthunder starred in Prey, the fifth installment of the Predator franchise.^[6] She played Naru, a young Comanche healer who wants to prove herself as a hunter, and was widely praised for her performance.^[20] Prey was the first feature film to have a full Comanche language dub, and the first to have an all-Native American cast.^[21]

In 2025, Midthunder co-starred in the action-comedy Novocaine and the thriller Opus.^[22][23]

Awards and nominations

In 2022, Midthunder received the Breakthrough Performance Award as part of the Saturn Awards, and a Critics' Choice Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television, both for her performance in Prey.^[24][25]

Filmography

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	The Homecoming of Jimmy Whitecloud	Little Girl		[26]
2002	Deadly Species	Calusa Tribe	Direct-to-video film	[26]
2008	Sunshine Cleaning	Candy Store Girl		[14]
	Swing Vote	Female Student #3		[26]
2009	Not Forgotten	Amaya Bishop (young)		[26]
2014	Drunktown's Finest	Model #1		[27][28]
2015	Spare Parts	Nikki		[26]
	Bare	Malya	Uncredited	[26]
2016	Hell or High Water	Natalie Martinez (bank teller)		[29][30]
	Priceless	Maria		[31]
2018	14 Cameras	Danielle		[32][33]
2019	Only Mine	Julie Dillon	Direct-to-video film	[34][35][36]
	She's Missing	Honey		[26]
2020	Centurion: The Dancing Stallion	Elissa Hall		[37]
2021	The Marksman	Gas Station Clerk		[26]
	The Ice Road	Tantoo		[38][39]
	The Wheel	Albee	Co-producer	[1]
2022	Prey	Naru		[40][41]
2023	Dream Scenario	Haley
2024	Rez Ball	Dezbah Weaver		[42]
2025	Opus	Belle		[43]
	Novocaine	Sherry Margrave		[44]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2012–2014	Longmire	Lilly Stillwater	Episodes: "Pilot", "Miss Cheyenne"	[14]
2014	Banshee	Lana Cleary	Episodes: "The Warrior Class", "Bloodlines"	[citation needed]
2015	Dig	Starlet	Episode: "Emma Wilson's Father"	[citation needed]
2016	The Originals	Kayla McInnis	Episode: "Alone with Everybody"	[citation needed]
2017–2019	Legion	Kerry Loudermilk	Main role	[45][46][47]
2018	The Misadventures of Psyche & Me	Lizzie	Television miniseries	[citation needed]
2019–2022	Roswell, New Mexico	Rosa Ortecho	Recurring role (season 1); main role (seasons 2–4)	[48][49][50][51]
2021	Long Gone Gulch	BW	Voice role	[52]
2022	Reservation Dogs	MissM8tri@rch	Episode: "Decolonativization"	[5]
2024	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Princess Yue	Recurring role	[53]