Martin Sensmeier is an American Actor and Producer from the Alaskan Native Tribes, Tlingit as well as Koyukon-Athabascan. He was raised in the village of Yakutat, Alaska.
He is best known for his roles in the Magnificent Seven, Wind River, Yellowstone and Westworld. He next can be seen in Netflix' Mini-Series The Liberator and The Feature Film The Last Manhunt opposite Jason Momoa.
He is the son of Eva and Raymond Sensmeier. He was raised in Yakutat, Alaska, a Tlingit fishing town of about 600 residents. The community can be reached by air (366 miles southeast of Anchorage), but has no connecting road.
His family name contains two different German words. Sense and Meier. Sense means Scythe, Meier means milk farmer, so his ancestors have been German milk farmers which most probably owns a farm named "Sensenhof" or did produce also scythes.