Jeremiah Bitsui

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Jeremiah Bitsui (* in Chinle , Arizona ) is an American actor with Native American roots. He gained fame mainly through the role of Victor from the series Breaking Bad and the spin-off Better Call Saul .

Career

Jeremiah was born in the US state of Arizona and comes from the Navajo and Omaha ethnic groups   . Today he lives in Los Angeles . He got his first role in front of the camera when he was five years old in a Japanese production about the Navajo Nation Reservation . In 1994 he made a small appearance in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers . In 2005 he starred in the short film A Thousand Roads and a year later took a small role in the sports drama Dogtown Boys and also appeared in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers . In 2009 he played a cop in the drama Brothers.

Also in 2009 he took on the role of Victor , a henchman for the character Gustavo Fring portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito , in the successful television series Breaking Bad . In the spin-off Better Call Saul , which is more settled in time, he can be seen in the role since 2017th In 2014 Bitsui took on the leading role of Luther Maryboy in the drama Drunktown's Finest , which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival . In 2018, he brought the character Eagle Flies to life for the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 using the motion capture process , which he also lent the voice.

His guest television roles include appearances on Wildfire , In Plain Sight , CSI: Miami , The Night Shift , Longmire , Yellowstone and Bosch .

Bitsui is a co-founder of Youth Impacing Youth , a mentoring program designed to help teenagers with problems in the parental home through college students who have had similar experiences.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremiah Bitsui . In: Native Networks . Smithsonian Institution. 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Bitsui, Jeremiah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Chinle , Arizona