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Joel Oulette

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Joel Oulette (born 2001/2002) is a Canadian actor, most noted for his lead role as Jared in the television drama series Trickster.[2] He was cast in the series as his first starring role after supporting performances in the television series Tribal and the films Parallel Minds and Monkey Beach.[3]

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Early life

Oulette was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and has ties to the Red River Métis Nation and Cumberland House Cree Nation.[4][5] He began acting at the age of five, encouraged by his mother, who was an actress herself.[6] He attended Strathmore High School.[7] He also played for his school's Spartan's Football team.[7]

Oulette and his sister, Shayla Stonechild, competed as a team in the ninth season of The Amazing Race Canada in 2023.[8]

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Oulette was cast as an extra on HBO's 2007 Western historical drama television film, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.[6] In 2018, he played a small role on the prehistorical adventure film, Alpha.[7] He later earned a larger role on the drama film, Monkey Beach, released in 2020.[9] He was also on the television crime drama series, Tribal.[10] He starred as Runaway on the 2020 film, Parallel Minds.[11] In September 2019, he was cast as the starring role of Jared, on the supernatural thriller drama television series, Trickster.[12] The show premiered in October 2020.[13] Oulette made an appearance during a commercial break on Hockey Night in Canada in promotion of the show.[6]

In February 2021, he starred in season two, episode ten of the Netflix Series Two Sentence Horror Stories as an Indigenous man who faces a dark history when he and his girlfriend visit an old west reenactment for their podcast.[14] He starred in Daniel Foreman's thriller film Abducted as Derrick Desjardins,[11] which was released in 2021.[15] Oulette also played the main character Ben Taggart in the first season of the BYUtv and Family Channel series Ruby and the Well.[16]

At the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, he received a nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Trickster.[17] In 2022, Oulette was cast as Hahn in the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender.[18] In 2023, Oulette competed on the ninth season of The Amazing Race Canada with his sister Shayla.[1]

In 2024, he co-hosted the documentary series Warrior Up! with Anna Lambe and Joshua Odjick.[19]

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