Zhao's debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. In 2016, Bedard announced an agreement with the Catawba Nation of South Carolina to join in a production agreement. In 2017, she appeared as a recurring character in the TV series The Mist. Bedard made an appearance in the music video for Jay-Z's 2017 song "Family Feud". In 2020, Bedard played a recurring character in seasons one and two of the drama series FBI: Most Wanted. She then was a starring cast member in the Paramount+ miniseries The Stand, as Ray Brentner, a gender-swapped version of Ralph Brentner from the 1994 adaptation. In 2022, she was cast as Yagoda in the upcoming Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender and as Sylvie Nanmac in Alaska Daily, the mother of a missing indigenous woman. Personal life In 1993, Bedard married musician Deni Wilson. Between her films, the pair toured for several years with other musicians in a band called "ID," which came from the initials of their first names, Irene and Deni. In 2012, the couple divorced following Bedard's allegations of being a spousal abuse victim. In November 2020, Bedard was arrested twice in three days. The first arrest was for alleged domestic violence, assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and criminal damaging; the second was for alleged disorderly conduct. On August 20, 2022, she was again arrested for drunken disorderly conduct after she was heard loudly arguing with another woman in the street with no regard of safety in Xenia, Ohio. Bedard claims she was locked out of her studio and had no alcohol in her system, but police detected alcohol on her breath. The incident had begun as a welfare check on the other woman, who was reported as being passed out in the bushes, but she was gone when authorities arrived, leaving Bedard at the scene. Filmography Film Television Music video Video games Awards and nominations References External links Irene Bedard Biography at who2.com 1967 births 20th-century American actresses 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century American actresses 21st-century Native Americans Actresses from Anchorage, Alaska American film actresses American people of French-Canadian descent American people of Métis descent American television actresses American voice actresses Cree people Inuit actresses Inupiat people Living people Native American actresses University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni 20th-century Native American women 21st-century Native American women