Tantoo Cardinal
Biography
Tantoo Cardinal CM is a Canadian actress of Cree and Métis heritage. With over 130 credits in 50 years, she's received numerous awards, including the Earle Grey Award, and in 2009, she was made a member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in Canada, as a screen and stage actress, and as a founding member of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company." She starred in Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," and her upcoming projects include the Marvel Series "Echo" and the animated feature "Wendell and Wild." Known for her work in Stumptown and 3 Pines, she has a rich history in films like "Legends of the Fall," "Dances with Wolves," and "Wind River," and TV shows such as "SEE," "Westworld," and "Frontier." Tantoo Cardinal has multiple honorary doctorates.
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Acting History
2025
The American Revolution as voice
2025Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood as Self
2024Inkwo for When the Starving Return as Auntie (voice)
2024Avatar the Last Airbender as Hama
2024An Ode for Leviticus as Luna
2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo as Self - Chula
2024Echo as Chula Battiest
2023Killers of the Flower Moon as Lizzie Q
2023The American Buffalo as (voice)
2022Three Pines as Bea Mayer
2022The Last Manhunt as Ticup
2022Wendell & Wild as Ms. Hunter (voice)
2022ONI: Thunder God's Tale as Principal (voice)
2022Spirit Rangers as Moon (voice)
2021Back Home Again as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
2021Tantoo Cardinal as self
2020The Corruption of Divine Providence as Juniper Fairweather
2019See as The Dreamer
2019Red Snow as Grandmother Ruth
2019Stumptown as Sue Lynn Blackbird
2019The Grizzlies as Janace
2019Through Black Spruce as Mary-Lou
2018New Amsterdam as Jane Munsee
2018Hold the Dark as Illanaq
2018Falls Around Her as Mary Birchbark
2018Corner Gas Animated as Real Estate Agent (voice)
2017The Great Northern Candy Drop as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
2017Godless as Iyovi
2017Wind River as Alice Crowheart
2017Cardinal as Nookomis
2016Frontier as Kamenna
2016Westworld as Ehawee
2016Bull as Chief Tsosie
2016ARQ as The Pope
2016On the Farm as Ada Taylor
2015Hope Bridge as Lana
2014Mohawk Girls as Zoe’s Mom
2014Strange Empire as Pichette
2014Outlander as Adawehi
2014Penny Dreadful as Old Native American Woman
2014Rez Carz as (voice)
2014Chasing Shakespeare as Older Venus
2014Down Here as Stella Mitchell
2013Maïna as Tekahera
2013Eden as The Nurse
2012Longmire as Marilyn Yarlott
2012Arctic Air as Aunt Mary
2011Shouting Secrets as June
2011The Killing as Hooker
2011Blackstone as Wilma Stoney
2010Fathers & Sons as Gordon’s Sister
2010Shattered as Carol
2010Every Emotion Costs as Aunt Marcy
2009Changing Climates, Changing Times as Grace Lajoie
2008Mothers & Daughters as Celine
2008Dear Prudence as Ruth Vigil
2008Mom, Dad and Her as Heather
2008Older Than America as Auntie Apple
2008The Englishman's Boy as Little Soldier's Wife
2008The Guard as Ursula
2007Luna: Spirit of the Whale as Gloria Maquinna
2006The Road to Christmas as Sioux Woman
2006Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis as Iba Beauvais
2006Unnatural & Accidental as Aunt Shadie / Rita
2004H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004A Thief Of Time as Irene Musket
2003Dreamkeeper as Old Pawnee Woman
2003Moccasin Flats as Betty
2003Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
2002How the Fiddle Flows as Narrator (voice)
2002Edge of Madness as Ruth
2002Tom Stone as Judge Crowfoot
2001MythQuest as Walloha
2001In the Light of Reverence as Narrator (voice)
2001Dodson's Journey as Waitress
2000The Lost Child as Aunt Mary
2000Canada: A People's History as Plains Storyteller
2000The Hi-Line as Singing Bird
2000Postmark Paradise as Reenie
2000Navigating the Heart as Mary
1999A Stranger in the Kingdom as Heaven Fontaine
1999Family Law as Mrs. Grant
1998Smoke Signals as Arlene Joseph
1998Heartwood as Violet Boucher
1998Big Bear as Running Second
1998Cold Squad as Theresa Sandiman
1998Honey Moccasin as Honey Moccasin
1997The Education of Little Tree as Nonna
1996Grand Avenue as Nellie
1995Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
1995Tecumseh: The Last Warrior as Turtle Mother
1995Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West as Sarah Winnemucca
1995Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges as Alive
1994Legends of the Fall as Pet
1994Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Mary's Mother
1994Sioux City as Dawn Rainfeather
1993Harts of the West as Helen
1993Spirit Rider as Marilyn St. Claire
1993Where the Rivers Flow North as Bangor
1993Mustard Bath as Sister Amantha
1993Silent Tongue as Silent Tongue
1993Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Snow Bird
1992North of 60 as Betty Moses
1991Black Robe as Chomina's Wife
1991The Lightning Incident as Vivian
1990The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Herself
1990Dances with Wolves as Black Shawl
1990Divided Loyalties as Molly Brant
1988War Party as Sonny's Mother
1988Candy Mountain as Annie
1987Loyalties as Rosanne Ladouceur
1987Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge as Little Doe
1987Street Legal as Renee Stonehouse
1986The Campbells as Maria Brant
1986Places Not Our Own as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
1983Running Brave as Caroline
1981Death Hunt as Indian Woman
1978Marie Ann as Tantou, Indian princess
1977For The Record
1953The Oscars as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Aunt Mary
—Wildwood as (voice)