The latest season for one of television’s most beloved crime drama series has a Saskatchewan connection.
Joel D. Montgrand is playing the role of Eddie Qavvik in True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the HBO anthology series.
Montgrand, who is from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, which is near Prince Albert, spent most of his youth in La Ronge. He has been grinding his way through the acting business hoping to land a mega role.
He was among several Indigenous actors who auditioned and were being considered for Qavvik, which means wolverine in the Iñupiaq language.
Finding out he had been cast as
