U.S. Army veteran who served during Persian Gulf War.
Graduated class of 1995 from the University of North Carolina at
Pembroke a college founded in 1887 as a normal school to train Native
American public school teachers.
Speaks his native Navajo language better than he does English, even
though he grew up off the Navajo reservation, in Continental Divide,
New Mexico.
First acting experience came during the open casting call for
"Windtalkers."