Roseanne Supernault is a Vancouver based actress originally from East Prairie Metis Settlement. Recognizable from the APTN hit TV Series, "Blackstone," where her haunting performance has garnered her several accolades to date; the historical, pre-contact epic, "Maina," where she plays the title character, for which she received the Best Actress Award at American Indian Film Festival; and the groundbreaking Feature, "Rhymes For Young Ghouls," by Jeff Barnaby, that premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and was named a TIFF Top 10. Both "Blackstone" and "Rhymes For Young Ghouls" have secured distribution in the US.
Supernault is trained in Theatre, Film, and Television. She graduated from 4 years at Victoria School of the Arts an institution focused on not only the history of the arts, but the execution and constant immersion in the field; this is where she discovered her passion.
Through her teens she spent vital extra-curricular hours dedicated to team sports, film acting workshops, and immersion in First Nations Culture. She was raised by her single father and had an upbringing in a large family; her intrinsic ties to Metis Cree culture and value system is what keeps her balanced in her life and work.
Since then she has studied under various acting coaches, but mostly fostered her craft on Film/TV sets and on the stage. Her most recent stage performance in "Dreary and Izzy," where she played a First Nations woman with FASD, has garnered her rave reviews from various critics.
She has recently commenced her journey into teaching and writing - with the former, developing and facilitating Next Gen Acting Workshops, an acting training series grounded in practical approaches to the craft. With the latter, writing screenplays, successfully being accepted into the Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship at Whistler Film Festival.
