Katarina Ziervogel

Katarina Ziervogel is an Anishinaabe/Mohawk/German Deaf woman from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba. She was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and 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 as a Recurring Guest Star on Marvel Studio’s Echo and has made appearances in CBC’s Heartland and NBC’s The Irrational. She 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.

Katarina’s passion is to increase the visibility of Deaf and Indigenous representation on screen.