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name: "Rod Rondeaux"
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born: "1 January 1958"
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updated: "2026-09-16T21:15:19.763526+00:00"
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# Rod Rondeaux

Actor. Born 1 January 1958 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1958, Los Angeles

## Biography

Rod Rondeaux is a Native American actor and stuntman. A member of the Crow Tribe with Cheyenne descent, he was born in 1958 in Los Angeles and grew up on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. He began in rodeo as a horse rider, bull rider, steer wrestler and team roper before entering film work.

Rondeaux has worked as a stunt performer, specialising in horse stunts, on numerous Westerns and television productions since the 1990s. His acting credits include early roles in *Crazy Horse* (1996) and *The Missing* (2003), followed by *Meek's Cutoff* (2010) as The Indian, the lead in *Mekko* (2015) — for which he received Best Actor awards at the American Indian Film Festival and Red Nation Film Festival — and parts in *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs* (2018), *Hostiles* (2017) and *Woman Walks Ahead* (2018). He has also appeared in television series including *Into the West* (2005), *Comanche Moon* (2008), *Tyrant* (2015) and *The English* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Meek's Cutoff* (2011), Fi1m 82, as The Indian — [page](https://film.one/film/meeks-cutoff.md)

## Also known for

- *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs* (2018), Sioux Chief (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
- *Hostiles* (2017), Derby (uncredited)
- *The Missing* (2003), Hudlao
- *The English* (2022), Trooper Charlie White
- *Woman Walks Ahead* (2018), Indian Robber
- *The Abandons* (2025), Yellow Wing
- *Reel Injun* (2010), Self

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