---
name: "Jay Tavare"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jay-tavare"
fi1m_id: "jay-tavare"
imdb_id: "nm0851610"
tmdb_id: 29861
wikidata_id: "Q1684367"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 June 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-27T09:21:02.992879+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."
---

# Jay Tavare

## Identity

Jay Tavare

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jay-tavare
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jay-tavare
- **IMDb ID:** nm0851610
- **TMDB ID:** 29861
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1684367
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Tavare, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684367, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851610/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29861

Actor. Born 18 June 1968 in Navajo, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 June 1968, Navajo, United States
- **Active:** 2002–2015
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (2), 2010s 78 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $206m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Tavare, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684367, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851610/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29861

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Adaptation.*](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md) (83)

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## Biography

Jay Tavare is an American actor. He was born on 18 June 1968 in the Navajo Nation, United States.

Tavare is known for his role as Vega in *Street Fighter* (1994). He played Matthew Osceola in *Adaptation.* (2002), Kayitah in *The Missing* (2003), Swimmer in *Cold Mountain* (2003), Black Wing in *Pathfinder* (2007), and Sharp Teeth in *Bone Tomahawk* (2015). He also appeared in *The Revenant* (2015) and episodes of *CSI: Miami* (2008) and *Into the West* (2005).

Tavare performed his own stunts in *CSI: Miami*, including a controlled free fall that received an Emmy nomination. He won Best Actor at the American Indian Film Festival for his role in *Unbowed* (1999).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Bone Tomahawk* (2015), Fi1m 78, as Sharp Teeth — [page](https://film.one/film/bone-tomahawk.md)
- *Cold Mountain* (2003), Fi1m 62, as Swimmer — [page](https://film.one/film/cold-mountain.md)
- *Adaptation.* (2002), Fi1m 83, as Matthew Osceola — [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Masters of the Universe: Revelation* (2021), series, as Wundar (voice)
- *The Revenant* (2015), as Native American Voices (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-revenant.md)
- *Bone Tomahawk* (2015), as Sharp Teeth — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/bone-tomahawk.md)
- *The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)* (2015), as Inmate 346
- *Vatos Locos* (2011), as Jimmy Cavera
- *Turok: Son of Stone* (2008), as Koba (voice)
- *Pathfinder* (2007), as Blackwing
- *Into the West* (2005), series, as Chief Prairie Fire
- *Cold Mountain* (2003), as Swimmer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/cold-mountain.md)
- *The Missing* (2003), as Kayitah
- *Adaptation.* (2002), as Matthew Osceola — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/adaptation.md)
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Manny Ortega
- *UnBowed* (1999), as Waka Mani
- *Executive Decision* (1996), as Terrorist
- *Street Fighter* (1994), as Vega
- *The First Circle*, as Luke Barlow

## Gallery

- ![Jay Tavare](https://film.one/media/person/97576/gallery-252d46b4681b.jpg) Jay Tavare — RealTVfilms, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Jay_Tavare_on_RealTVfilms.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jay Tavare](https://film.one/media/person/97576/gallery-2a466dd80abd.jpg) Jay Tavare — Image via TMDB

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