Jay Tavare
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Bio
Born on March 23, 1971, the 44 year old Jay Tavare is not only an award winning actor, he frequently prepares and performs his own stunts when the part allows. An example of this was a 23 story freefall while filming the season finale of CSI Miami. The stunt earned Jay an Emmy nomination in 2008. His expertise in martial arts, dancing, acrobatics, bare back riding, archery and swordsmanship has given Jay the ability to create flawless and believable characters on film.
Often, Jay travels to participate in Honor Your Life, a suicide prevention program for Native youth, at the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. He also serves as the celebrity spokesman for Warming Hearts and Adopt-a-Native-Elder, a non-profit organization benefiting the Navajo elders in Utah and Arizona.
Awards
2008 Emmy Nomination for CSI Miami
2000 American Indian Film Festival: Best Actor Award for Unbowed
Guest Star Roles
2012 No Kitchen Require Guest Judge
2012 Longmire “Reuben Lamebull”
2008 CSI: Miami “Manny Ortega”
2005 Into the West “Chief Prairie Fire”
Movie Roles
2015 The Human Centipede 3 Inmate 346
(Final Sequence)
2015 The Fifth Sum “Moctezuma”
2015 Bone Tomahawk “Sharp Teeth”
2014 Off Track “Pul”
2011 Vatos Locos “Jimmy Cavera”
2008 Turok: Son of Stone Voice of “Koba”
2007 Pathfinder “Black Wing”
2003 The Missing “Kayitah”
2003 El Padrino “Special Agent Sanchez”
2003 Cold Mountain Swimmer
2002 Adaptation “Matthew Osceola”
2000 Escape to Grizzly Mountain “Tukayoo”
1999 Unbowed “Waka Mani”
1996 Executive Decision “Nabill”
1994 Street Fighter “Vega”
Video Game Voice Overs
2015 Metal Gear Solid V: Voice of “Code Talker”
The Phantom Pain
2010 Red Dead Redemption Voice of Pedestrian/Background Character
2009 Call of Juarez: Voice of “Running River”
Bound in Blood
2005 Gun Voice of “Stone Hand”
Huffington Post Articles
"Adopt a Native Elder: When the Spirit Moves You..."
"Indian Givers"
"Divide and Conquer"
"Honor Your Life"
"Hollywood Indians"
"Geronimo"
"Life or Death: Teen Suicide on American Indian Reservations"
"A Modern Day American Indian Story"
