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<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Jessica Matten</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Jessica Matten is a Canadian actress, fashion model, and film producer. She will provide the voice for Katara in The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, an upcoming Avatar Studios film.
Avatar credits
Katara
Template:Character information
Selected credits
Television work
Filmography
- Rez Ball (2024)
- The Empty Man (2020)
- Best Day Ever: Aiden Kesler 1994-2011 (2012)
- Footsteps into Gangland (2011)
- Pigs (2010)
Biographical information
Personal life
Matten was born in Edmonton, Alberta.[1] She has British-Chinese ancestry through her father,[2] as well as Red River Métis/Saulteaux–Cree[3] from her mother,[1] an activist, performer, and former model.[4] Matten is a descendant of Cuthbert Grant, the first rebel Métis leader who was known for the Battle of Seven Oaks in Canada.[5]
From the age of six, she assisted with her mother's First Nations modeling agency, Mystique Models, around Canada.[4]
Matten graduated from the University of Alberta with a bachelor's of science degree in human ecology with a minor in marketing.[4][1] She studied acting at Shoreline Studios Vancouver Acting School and modeling at Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion.[6]
Matten resides in her hometown, Edmonton.[7] She is dating Brendt Thomas Diabo,[6] a Mohawk actor, artist, and rock musician.
Career
Matten worked as a model as an adult. Some of her work was on fashion runways,[8] and other jobs were in TV commercials such as for Nature Valley and Nintendo Wii.[6] She worked for her father in marketing in London[8] before becoming an actor. She worked "a little stint at Elle magazine[4] in an internship as well.[6]
Matten appeared in five international/Native People's television series in eight years, including the Discovery Canada and Netflix series Frontier, starring Jason Momoa, and the CW Network and CBC drama series Burden of Truth. In 2020, Matten began starring in Tribal on the APTN Network, where she plays the newly appointed chief of an indigenous police force in Alberta, Canada. She was also an associate producer on the series.[2]
She also previously starred in the short film A Red Girl's Reasoning, which received an award at the Imagine NATIVE Film Festival. In 2020, Matten appeared in the horror movie The Empty Man for Disney/20th Century Fox studios.[5]
Beginning in 2022, Matten has co-starred in the TV crime drama series Dark Winds as Bernadette Manuelito, the only female sergeant on a Navajo reservation police department.[9] She also starred in the film Rez Ball in 2024.
Matten will voice Katara in the upcoming Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender movie set to come out on October 9, 2026. Although Mae Whitman voiced Katara in the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, she announced that despite having been honoured to play her, she is excited to see this new iteration.[10]
Matten is also the president of 7 Forward Entertainment, an Indigenous-owned production company based on the West Coast of Canada.[8]
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