Devery Jacobs Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Wiki, Biography & More

Devery Jacobs Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Wiki, Biography & More

Devery Jacobs is a Canadian Indigenous (Mohawk) actress and writer. For Devery Jacobs’ performance in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), she earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2023, for her role in Reservation Dogs, she was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Jacobs began acting in the late 2000s with roles in the television series The Dead Zone (2007) and Assassin’s Creed: Lineage (2009).

In 2013, Jacobs played the title character in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. For her work in the film, Jacobs will be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a main role.

In 2014, she appeared in the music video for “Sisters” from A Tribe Called Red.

In 2019, in the second season of American Gods, Jacobs played a young Cherokee college student, Sam Black Crow, who identifies as “two-spirited”. In an interview, she said that Neil Gaiman (author of the novels the series is based on) strongly advocated for her being cast in the role, but noted:

“I identify as queer, not two-spirited, because I’m Mohawk and we don’t have that.”

Also in 2019, Jacobs had a recurring role as Lilith Bathory in the first and second seasons of the Netflix series The Order.