Cody Lightning

Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree actor and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the son of Georgina Lightning, and brother of William Lightning and Crystle Lightning.

He was a Young Artist Award nominee in 1999 for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor, for Smoke Signals (1998), and won the American Indian Film Festival award for Best Actor in 2007 for Four Sheets to the Wind.

In 2023 he wrote, directed and starred in his directorial debut film Hey, Viktor!, a mockumentary in which a fictionalized version of himself struggles to reestablish his faded career as an actor by creating his own sequel to Smoke Signals.

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1986 births

Living people

20th-century Canadian male actors

20th-century First Nations people

21st-century Canadian male actors

21st-century First Nations people

21st-century Canadian screenwriters

Canadian male film actors

Canadian male screenwriters

First Nations male actors

First Nations filmmakers

First Nations screenwriters

Cree people

Male actors from Edmonton

Film directors from Edmonton

Writers from Edmonton