Jerry Wolf

Jerry Wolf is a Native American Actor based in Los Angeles, who just wrapped a role in Martin Scorcese's Killers of the Flower Moon due to release next year. He can be seen on the festival circuit in Last Patrol on Okinawa, the most recent film produced by Napesni Motion Pictures (shot on film), a company co-founded by Jerry and his partner Nick Brokaw in 2011. Jerry discovered acting in 2010 during the production of their first film Four Winds, a Western (also shot on film) written by the two featuring Native American leads in the post-Civil War American West. Brokaw had helped Jerry produce a documentary on Native American Development in the 21st Century for Jerry's Brown University thesis in 2009. The following year Jerry returned the favor, joining the Four Winds production team. After unsuccessfully auditioning actors for the lead role Four Winds, Brokaw asked Jerry to read for the title character and it was a perfect fit. Shooting on film playing opposite long-time family friend (a baseball coach of his for many years) and working actor A Martinez while shooting on location at Paramount Ranch where Jerry grew up watching his father Larry Sellers shoot Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman as a series regular was bit of a fairy tale first experience for Jerry as a young actor and filmmaker. Falling in love with acting and the production process during the making of Four Winds, Jerry quickly found a new direction to express his passion for empowering Native American voices and narratives while working creatively and collaboratively. Four Winds premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and Jerry has been climbing the career ladder in Los Angeles since, building his resume as an actor, writer, and producer. Jerry maintains a strong relationship with his Native communities as an artist and a citizen. In May of 2018, Jerry played the lead in Yale Repertory Theater's workshop of the play A Pipe for February, written by the preeminent Native American playwright Mary Katherine Nagel on the Osage Reign of Terror, a devastating period in the 1920s Jerry's Osage family lived through. Traveling to his Osage reservation in Oklahoma regularly to participate in traditional ceremonial life, Jerry is guided by his Native culture, possessing a deep sense of responsibility and community he carries with him into his life and work.