Geraldine Keams

Acting

Geraldine Keams

Born

1951-08-19 (75)

Place of birth

Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series often playing a motherly role. She is a member of the Navajo Nation. She guest starred in the television series, Dharma and Greg as a sweat-lodge medicine woman. She made her debut in the 1976 Clint Eastwood western The Outlaw Josey Wales as Little Moonlight. In recent years, she is also a successful stage actress and storyteller, taking part in children's plays about Indian legends. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Keams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipe…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Buffalo Dreams poster
5.7

Josh Townsend finds himself living in New Mexico after his father's new job requires the family to move from their home in Utah. While acclimating to his new surroundings, Josh becomes involved with a group of teens attempting to preserve the buffalo and Navajo traditions. Along the way he makes friends and learns important lessons about life in this Disney Channel Original movie.

Buffalo Dreams

2005

Skinwalkers poster
6.7

Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.

Skinwalkers

2002

The Slaughter Rule poster
5.7

A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

The Slaughter Rule

2002

Angels Don't Sleep Here poster
2.8

A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.

Angels Don't Sleep Here

2002

Edge of America poster
6.4

From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship, and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.

Edge of America

2003

A Thousand Roads poster
9.0

The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community.

A Thousand Roads

2005

Series credits

Big Love poster
6.9

The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.

Big Love

2006

Northern Exposure poster
7.8

After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.

Northern Exposure

1990

Dark Winds poster
7.5

This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

Dark Winds

2022

NCIS: Origins poster
7.6

In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.

NCIS: Origins

2024

Reservation Dogs poster
7.9

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.

Reservation Dogs

2021

Echo poster
6.0

Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.

Echo

2024

Rutherford Falls poster
6.5

A small town in upstate New York is turned upside down when local legend and town namesake, Nathan Rutherford fights the moving of a historical statue.

Rutherford Falls

2021