D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Birthdate: September 19, 2001 (24 Years Old)
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai (birthname: D’Pharoah Miskwaatez Loescher McKay Woon-A-Tai) is a Canadian actor best known for his recurring role in the award-winning series, Reservation Dogs (2021-2023), and who made his feature debut in a supporting role in debuting Mohawk-Canadian director/writer Tracey Deer’s autobiographical drama, Beans (2020), with Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais and Paulina Alexis, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won Best Picture and Best First Feature at the Canadian Screen Awards.
Woon-A-Tai joined the cast of director/writer Dutch Southern’s heist-gone-wrong movie, Only the Good Survive (2023), starring Sidney Flanigan and Frederic Weller and premiering in competition at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Woon-A-Tai co-starred with Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, and Djouliet Amara in director/writer Molly McGlynn’s Canadian comedy-drama, Fitting In (2023), which premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival under the title Bloody Hell and was released by Elevation Pictures. Woon-A-Tai again co-starred, this time in the comedy-horror movie, Hell of a Summer (2023), co-directed, co-written and co-produced in their filmmaking debuts by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, who also led a cast including Abby Quinn and Fred Hechinger, and was released by Neon after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai landed his first feature starring role in another movie that was co-directed and co-written (by veteran filmmaker Alex Garland and debuting filmmaker Ray Mendoza), Warfare (2025), in which Woon-A-Tai portrays Mendoza as a Navy SEAL in combat in Iraq alongside Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor and Charles Melton, and which was released wide by A24.
Woon-A-Tai was in the cast of director/co-producer Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller, Caught Stealing (2025), based on Charlie Huston’s 2004 novel starring Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Bad Bunny, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber and Vincent D’Onofrio, produced by Columbia Pictures and Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and released by Sony Pictures Releasing.
Personal life
D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, by his parents. Woon-A-Tai has a fraternal twin brother, Mi’De Xxavier. Woon-A-Tai’s paternal family belongs to the Kitchenuhmaykooskib Inninuwug First Nation band of the Ojai-Cree First Nation in Ontario, Canada. D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai’s height is 5’ 10½ ”.
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai Movies
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Fitting In
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A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
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Facts About D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Heritage: D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai has a fascinating family heritage including Ojai-Cree, Chinese-Guyanese and German roots.
Martial Artist: Woon-A-Tai has a black belt in Shotokan karate.
Martial Arts Heritage: D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai is the grandson of the chief instructor of International Karate Daigaku and President of the Caribbean Karate College, Frank Woon-A-Tai. He is also the grandson of Dr. Alex McKay, a University of Toronto language professor specializing in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) language.
