Biography

Katarina Ziervogel is an Ojibwe/Mohawk/German Deaf woman from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba. She was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, but moved to Winnipeg at age ten. She graduated from TMU (Toronto Metropolitan University) with a Bachelor's in Media Production. Katarina is known for her acting debut in Marvel Studio's Echo and co-wrote her first feature film, Finality of Dusk, with Emmy award winning director Madison Thomas, which had its Canadian premiere at the Whistler Film Festival. She was part of the 2022 Accessible Writers' Lab and Whistler Film Festival's Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship Lab. Her passion is to increase visibility of Deaf and Indigenous representation on screen.