
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Actor · Born September 19, 2001 (25) · Toronto, Canada
Primetime Emmy nominee · 2 other major award bodies
D'Pharaoh Miskwaatez Loescher McKay Woon-A-Tai (born September 19, 2001) is a Canadian actor of Oji-Cree descent. He is best known for his role as Indigenous teenager Bear Smallhill in the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series Reservation Dogs (2021–2023), for which he received several accolades, including a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor Description above from the Wikipedia article D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- September 19, 2001 (25)
- Toronto, Canada
- Actor
- 9 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
What are D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 4
Grounded 4 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 3
Steady 2 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 4
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Shadow: 2 of 4 analyzed roles.
- Heroas Bear Smallhill in Reservation Dogs (2021)
- Shadowas Adam in Fitting In (2023)
- Shadowas Mike in Hell of a Summer (2023)
- Allyas Ray in Warfare (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet5
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
10 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page.

A Long Winter(2026)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Caught Stealing(2025)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Warfare(2025)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Hell of a Summer(2023)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Fitting In(2023)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Only the Good Survive(2023)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Reservation Dogs(2021)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
Beans(2020)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Creeped Out(2017)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all showsBreakers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 92nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 10 titles, 9 of them dated from 2017 to 2026; peak year 2025.
Film career
Peak 2025 · their film career is on the way up. Top draw in 2 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2021Screen debut· Beans
- 2021Independent Spirit Award win· Reservation Dogs
- 2025First top-billed film· Warfare
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
Awards
1 major award from 4 major nominations, 2022–2024.
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Actor in a Comedy Series
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Actor in a Comedy Series
- Independent Spirit Award, won · Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 75th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 77th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 9 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles; fans 77, detractors 58. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai work with?
People who share at least 2 of D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Fred Hechinger shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Fred HechingerShared titles: A Long Winter (2026), Hell of a Summer (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Fred Hechinger

- Kit ConnorShared titles: A Long Winter (2026), Warfare (2025)See all 2 shared titles with Kit Connor

- Paulina AlexisShared titles: Reservation Dogs (2021), Beans (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Paulina Alexis

