Do we like Cara Gee?
Our score: 7 out of 10. Nothing harmful or ugly found and her public words are thoughtful, but there's little detailed good-deeds reporting to push her higher.
Cara Gee is an Ojibwe actor who came up through Toronto theatre. Georgia Straight profiled her in 2014 as a Calgary-born, Toronto-based stage actor, with roles in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters and Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. That's a serious stage pedigree, and it shows in how she picks work.
Most people now know her as Camina Drummer in the sci-fi series The Expanse, and she's open about what she brings to it. In 2019 she told Den of Geek that as an Indigenous woman she looks at the Belter storylines from that perspective, and she linked them to reserves without clean water in Canada and the US. She's using the platform for something real.
On the harm check, we went looking and came up empty. We found no statements against LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the climate, no conspiracy-theory slide and no dodgy projects or company. The searches also turned up no court cases and no allegations against her. Thin coverage cuts both ways, though: absence of dirt isn't proof of sainthood.
In a 2020 Comics Beat interview she spoke plainly about her heritage and the harm done to First Nations communities, including bans on ceremonies. She also talked about how traditions shift, including debates about women's roles, without a hint of sneering at anyone. That's the voice of someone thinking hard about her community and its future.
The gap is detail: we found little reporting on charity work or specific advocacy, and nothing recent. So she lands comfortably on the right side, with a score held back only by how little there is to read. If you like her work, you can keep liking it.