Forrest Goodluck
Forrest Goodluck (born August 6, 1998) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Hugh Glass's son Hawk in the 2015 film "The Revenant", and for his supporting role as Adam Red Eagle, a two-spirit teenager sent to a conversion therapy camp, in the 2018 British-American film "The Miseducation of Cameron Post". Goodluck most recently guest-starred in the Netflix miniseries, "The Liberator", which was released on Veterans Day, November 11, 2020. Early life. A Native American, Goodluck was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father is Navajo. His mother's ancestry includes  Hidatsa, Mandan, Navajo, and Tsimshian. Career. Goodluck's first acting experience was during a sixth grade production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at his elementary school: later he performed in stage and theater productions in middle and high school. At age 13, he auditioned for Native American director Chris Eyre's film "Man Called Buffalo", which never made it to production, but did allow him to network with future casting directors. Goodluck auditioned for the part of Hawk in the 2015 film "The Revenant" when he was 15 years old. "The Revenant" was his first feature film role. Goodluck won  Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor (14–21) at the 37th Young Artist Awards for his role as Hawk. In February 2016, he was cast to appear in a pilot for the Hulu drama "Citizen" as Guero, a "wiry graduate of the streets who serves as the charismatic and bipolar leader of a group called 'Baby Narcos. In November 2016, it was announced Goodluck would star opposite Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane in "The Miseducation of Cameron Post".