Jerry Wolf

Jerry Wolf is a Native American Actor and current ABC on-air personality on the prime time game show Card Sharks as one of two featured Dealers. Raised in Malibu and based in Los Angeles, Jerry studies acting at Sharon Chatten Studios in Venice while the production company he co-founded in 2011 Napesni Motion Pictures wraps up post-production on their third film, a WW2 piece shot on film entitled Last Patrol on Okinawa. Jerry discovered acting in 2011 after college returning a favor to his Napesni Motion Pictures co-founder Nick Brokaw during the production of their first film Four Winds, a Western written by the two featuring Native American leads, also shot on film. Brokaw helped Jerry produce a documentary on Native American Development in the 21st Century for Jerry's Brown University thesis in 2009 before two years later asking Jerry to join the production team of Four Winds. After unsuccessfully auditioning actors for the lead role Four Winds, Brokaw asked Jerry to read for the title character and it was a perfect fit. Shooting on film playing opposite long-time family friend and working actor A Martinez while shooting on location at Paramount Ranch where Jerry's father Larry Sellers shot Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman as a series regular was a fairy tale first experience for the young actor and filmmaker who fell in the love with acting and the production process during the shoot. Since then Four Winds premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and Jerry has been climbing the career ladder in Los Angeles, building his resume with day player roles, studying around town with different teachers and studios, appearing in national commercials, producing two additional films and earning additional writing credits. As Jerry continues to develop his craft as an actor, he also maintains relationships within his Native communities as a citizen and a filmmaker. Traveling to his Osage reservation in Oklahoma regularly to participate in traditional ceremonial life, Jerry is guided by his Native culture and a sense of responsibility and community he carries with him into his work in entertainment. In May of 2018 Jerry played the lead in Yale Repertory Theater's workshop of the play A Pipe for February written by the preeminent Native American playwright Mary Katherine Nagel on the Osage Reign of Terror, a devastating period in the 1930's Jerry's Osage family lived through. Jerry Wolf's vision for his success and the subsequent victories success in entertainment will enable him to achieve within Native America is in the same spirit as the name given to his production company Napesni Motion Pictures. "Napesni", the last name of his Lakota grandmother Ollie Napesni, translates in Lakota to "never retreats" and it is with the same unwavering determination that Jerry is driven to be a part of the next generation of leaders in Native America by becoming the first cross-over Native American Leading Man.