Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree actor from

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'', December 12, 2015. He is the son of Georgina Lightning, and brother of William Lightning and Crystle Lightning. He was a Young Artist Award nominee in 1999 for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor, for '' Smoke Signals'' (1998), and won the American Indian Film Festival award for Best Actor in 2007 for '' Four Sheets to the Wind''.

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* 1986 births Living people 20th-century Canadian male actors 20th-century First Nations people 21st-century Canadian male actors 21st-century First Nations people Canadian male film actors First Nations male actors Cree people Male actors from Edmonton {{Canada-actor-stub