A multi-hyphenate artist, Morningstar Angeline has experience in film, theatre, music and journalism. She is alumni of the Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Lab and NBCU Launch Initiative and has two features currently in development, the narrative Rowdy By Nature and the documentary Ceremony to Commodity: The Battle Over Peyote. In 2021 Morningstar co-directed The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse at the Santa Fe Playhouse.

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Morningstar is a lead in two upcoming feature films, Radon's Daughters and Sky Valley and starred in 2023 film Frybread Face and Me, which was directed by Billy Luther and executive produced by Taika Waititi. She stars in 2025's HBO IT prequel series Welcome to Derry and heavily recurrs on Marvel's Echo, HBO's Westworld, Amazon's Outer Range and Paramount's Yellowstone. Other credits include the 2014 Sundance Film Festival feature, Drunktown's Finest.​

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Her most recent short film, Seeds, had a critically acclaimed festival run at ImagineNative, SFiFF, Palm Springs International Shorts Fest, National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, among numerous others. 

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Morningstar Angeline was born in Santa Fe, NM, and raised in Gallup, NM and the Los Angeles, CA area by her mother Rita Rose Wilson, father Ethan Shawn Chippewa and stepfather, Daniel H. Freeland.

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Fellowships, Labs + Grants include...

• 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant Recipient

• 2022 NBCU Launch New Mexico Directors Initiative

• 2022 Fourth World Indigenous Lab

• 2021 ImagineNATIVE Director's Lab

• 2020 Vision Maker Media Short Film Fellowship

• 2020 Native American Feature Writers Lab

• 2018 Sundance Institute Indigenous Lab

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Nominations and Awards include...

• 2024 National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development Native American 40 Under 40 

• 2022 C&I Movie Awards
  Best Actress Nominee for 'The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw'

• 2020 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
  Best Leading Actress Nominee for 'The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw' 

• 2019 American Indian Film Festival
  Best Actress Nominee for 'The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw' 

• 2018 New Mexico Film & TV Hall of Fame
  ‘Rising Star’ Honoree

• 2017 IAIA Cinema Showcase
  Best Acting Performance for 'Raven'

• 2014 American Indian Film Festival
  Best Supporting Actress for 'Drunktown’s Finest'