Michelle St. John

Michelle St. John is a First Nations actress, singer, producer, and director. She has been involved in creative projects in television, film, theatre, and music since the 1980s. Her directorial debut, Colonization Road, is a 2016 feature-length documentary that premiered at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. 2Career Michelle St. John, who grew up in Toronto, began her career in film as an actress. One of her first roles was as the protagonist in the 1989 CBC film Where the Spirit Lives, for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Actress - Dramatic Program.In 1992, St. John won her second Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor or Actress for her role as Merrily Swanson on E.N.G.. She has worked on many television series, including Northern Exposure and By Way of the Stars, and she voiced the character of Nakoma in Disney’s 1995 animated film Pocahontas. In 1998, she had a cameo as Velma in Chris Eyre’s award winning Smoke Signal