WES STUDI'S Santa Fe
THE CITY DIFFERENT — SANTA FE — IS WES Studi’s official headquarters. It’s where you can often find one of the country’s greatest actors and entertainers. It’s where the Native American star — who was recently named a 2019 honorary Oscar recipient — filmed the 1890s period western Hostiles. And it’s where he’s lived, just outside the action on a ranch, for two decades.
A Cherokee who fluently speaks his ancestral language, Studi is revered for the work that goes into his compelling characters. Before news of the honorary Oscar, which will be bestowed upon him in October, he had already been inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers.
Back when he was relatively unknown, Studi appeared in the 1989 comedy-drama , followed in 1990 by a turn in as “the toughest Pawnee.” He made a bigger name for himself with his fierce portrayal of the duplicitous Huron chief Magua in the 1992 film version of James Fenimore Cooper’s French and Indian War epic .
