Joel Oulette is a Canadian actor, most noted for his lead role as Jared in the television drama series ''

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''.Aruna Dutt
"How this young Canadian star went straight from high school to 'making history' on TV"

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, October 14, 2020. A member of the Cumberland House Cree and Red River

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nations from

Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, ...

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, he was cast in the series as his first starring role after supporting performances in the television series ''

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'' and the films ''Parallel Minds'' and ''

Monkey Beach ''Monkey Beach'' is a supernatural mystery novel written by the indigenous Canadian author Eden Robinson. It was published by Vintage Canada in 2000, being Eden's first novel. It was the recipient of the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which ...

''. In February 2021, he starred in S2.E10 of the Netflix Series ''

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'' as an Indigenous man who faces a dark history when he and his girlfriend visit an old west reenactment for their podcast. He is slated to star in Daniel Foreman's thriller film ''Abducted'', currently slated for release in 2021. At the

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in 2021, he received a nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series for ''Trickster''. Joel also played the main character Ben Taggart in the first season of the

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and Family Channel series ''

Ruby and the Well ''Ruby and the Well'' is a family fantasy TV show on BYUtv, premiered in America on February 27, 2022. The show features a present-day teenager whose father inherits an orchard in Emerald. This leads to the two moving to Emerald where Ruby disco ...

''. In 2022, Oulette was cast as Hahn in the live-action ''

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''. In 2023, Oulette competed on the ninth season of ''

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'' with his sister Shayla.

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