---
name: "DezBaa'"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dezbaa"
fi1m_id: "dezbaa"
imdb_id: "nm8474146"
tmdb_id: 2031731
wikidata_id: "Q122730305"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T22:55:09.097191+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# DezBaa'

## Identity

DezBaa'

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dezbaa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dezbaa
- **IMDb ID:** nm8474146
- **TMDB ID:** 2031731
- **Wikidata ID:** Q122730305
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122730305, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8474146/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2031731

Writer. Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Dez Baa, Sharon Anne Henderson, Dezbaa'
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122730305, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8474146/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2031731

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dark Winds*](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

DezBaa', also credited as Dez Baa' or Sharon Anne Henderson, is a Diné actor, screenwriter and producer. A citizen of the Navajo Nation of Basque, Spanish and Mexican descent, she was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and raised in the Española area. She holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Amherst College and two MFAs from the Institute of American Indian Arts, one in screenwriting and one in creative nonfiction; she also studied filmmaking at Northern New Mexico College.

She began working as a background actor in New Mexico before securing featured and speaking roles in films including *Hostiles* (2017), *Woman Walks Ahead* (2017) and *Unpregnant* (2020). On television she has appeared in *Longmire*, *Lawmen: Bass Reeves* (2023) and *When You Finish Saving the World* (2022). She played Helen Atcitty across multiple seasons of the AMC series *Dark Winds* (2022–) and served as a staff writer on its second season, receiving a teleplay credit on one episode.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com, directories.wga.org, en.wikipedia.org, losalamosreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dark Winds* (2022), Fi1m 79, as Helen Atcitty — [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lawmen: Bass Reeves* (2023), series, as Euna Highcloud
- *When You Finish Saving the World* (2023), as Didi
- *Dark Winds* (2022), series, as Helen Atcitty · Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)
- *Unpregnant* (2020), as Nurse Lopez
- *14 Cameras* (2018), as Tenant #1
- *Woman Walks Ahead* (2018), as Sioux Woman at Ration Day
- *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018), as Immigrant (uncredited)
- *Longmire* (2012), series, Actor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/longmire.md)
- *Road to Everywhere*, as Bethany

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