Tantoo Cardinal
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.
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Lizzie QWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered...
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Wind River
as Alice CrowheartAn FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on...
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Legends of the Fall
as PetIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his...
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Dances with Wolves
as Black ShawlWounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a...
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ARQ
as The PopeTwo old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that...
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Hold the Dark
as IllanaqIn the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he...
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Wendell & Wild
as Ms. Hunter (voice)Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon...
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Death Hunt
as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the...
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Smoke Signals
as Arlene JosephYoung Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and...
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Black Robe
as Chomina's WifeMissionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to...
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The Last Manhunt
as TicupIn 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father...
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Eden
as The NurseAfter a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire...
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
as Little DoeWill Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly...
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Dreamkeeper
as Old Pawnee WomanIn South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane,...
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Navigating the Heart
as MaryWhen sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to...
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The Education of Little Tree
as NonnaLittle Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his...
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The Grizzlies
as JanaceIn a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of...
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Chasing Shakespeare
as Older VenusTwo souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.
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Mom, Dad and Her
as HeatherSydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of...
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Older Than America
as Auntie AppleThe truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange...
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
as Self - ChulaJoin us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series....
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Luna: Spirit of the Whale
as Gloria MaquinnaWhen a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his...
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Sioux City
as Dawn RainfeatherA young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with...
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Where the Rivers Flow North
as BangorSleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers...
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Maïna
as TekaheraMaïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between...
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Grand Avenue
as NellieWhen Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by...
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Silent Tongue
as Silent TongueMad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body...
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The Road to Christmas
as Sioux WomanHigh-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the...
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Divided Loyalties
as Molly BrantStory of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a...
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Heartwood
as Violet BoucherWhen a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of...
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War Party
as Sonny's MotherOne hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry...
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Candy Mountain
as AnnieA mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
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Red Snow
as Grandmother RuthRed Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian...
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Through Black Spruce
as Mary-LouThe disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and...
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The Lightning Incident
as VivianMcKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic...
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Edge of Madness
as Ruth1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness...
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The Lost Child
as Aunt MaryKnowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets...
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Wildwood
as (voice)Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even...
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
as Mary's MotherMary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the...
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Back Home Again
as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of...
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Inkwo For When the Starving Return
as (Auntie)Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting...
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The Corruption of Divine Providence
as Juniper Fairweather16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata...
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Mothers & Daughters
as CelineComedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
as SelfA documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It...
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H2O
as Grand Chief Katie BlackfireWhen Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes...
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Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Grace LajoieYear 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be...
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Unnatural & Accidental
as Aunt Shadie / RitaRebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her...
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A Thief Of Time
as Irene MusketOfficers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts...
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Falls Around Her
as Mary BirchbarkA world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to...
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On the Farm
as Ada TaylorBased on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and...
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Running Brave
as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter...
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Fathers & Sons
as Gordon’s SisterFathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their...
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Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
as Turtle MotherThis western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from...
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A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Heaven FontaineA Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when...
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Dear Prudence
as Ruth VigilPrudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio...
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
as HerselfA documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial...
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Hope Bridge
as LanaAfter a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find...
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The Great Northern Candy Drop
as Narrator / Louisa (voice)The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government...
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Down Here
as Stella MitchellWhen an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's...
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The Hi-Line
as Singing BirdA con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and...
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Marie Ann
as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.
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Big Bear
as Running SecondThe story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land...
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In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice)This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places...
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Loyalties
as Rosanne LadouceurLily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated...
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Rez Carz
as (voice)Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within...
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An Ode for Leviticus
as LunaA decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape.
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Honey Moccasin
as Honey MoccasinThis all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new...
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Places Not Our Own
as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the...
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Mustard Bath
as Sister AmanthaMatthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on...
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Tantoo Cardinal
as selfA moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles...
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Outlander
as AdawehiThe story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in...
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Westworld
as EhaweeA dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the...
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Longmire
as Marilyn YarlottA Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the...
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See
as The DreamerA virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins...
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New Amsterdam
as Professor Jane MunseeThe new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public...
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Bull
as Chief TsosieDr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial...
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as Snow BirdDr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's...
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The Killing
as HookerThe Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series...
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Family Law
as Mrs. GrantFamily attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm...
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Echo
as Chula BattiestPursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront...
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Penny Dreadful
as Old Native American WomanSome of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and...
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Frontier
as KamennaThe chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in...
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Cardinal
as NookomisDetective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing...
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Stumptown
as Sue Lynn BlackbirdDex Parios is a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a...
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North of 60
as Betty MosesNorth of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern...
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Godless
as IyoviA ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a...
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Cold Squad
as Theresa SandimanCold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that...
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Street Legal
as Renee StonehouseStreet Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994....
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Three Pines
as Bea MayerChief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the...
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Arctic Air
as Aunt MaryArctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs...
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MythQuest
as WallohaWhile searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths...
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The Campbells
as Maria BrantThe Campbells was a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, which aired on Scottish...
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Corner Gas Animated
as Real Estate Agent (voice)It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on in Dog River, 40 kilometres from...
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The Guard
as UrsulaThis one hour drama follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. The...
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Spirit Rangers
as Moon (voice)Native American siblings Kodi, Summer and Eddy have a secret: They’re "Spirit Rangers" who help...
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ONI: Thunder God's Tale
as Principal (voice)In a mystical world of Japanese gods and spirits, a courageous girl strives to follow in her...
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For The Record
as uncreditedFor The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series,...
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Harts of the West
as HelenHarts of the West is an American Western/comedy–drama series starring Beau Bridges and his...
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Shattered
as CarolShattered is a Canadian police procedural series. The main character is a tough, smart homicide...
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The American Buffalo
as (voice)The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for...
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Strange Empire
as PichetteSet in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, “Strange Empire” is a Western whose heroes are...
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Canada: A People's History
as Plains StorytellerThe complete landmark documentary series follows events from pre-history to 1990. Charting the...
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Mohawk Girls
as Zoe’s MomFour young women are figuring out how to be Mohawk in the 21st century, to find their place in...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Aunt MaryHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Blackstone
as Wilma StoneyThe lives of Indians on the Blackstone Indian reserve, told from an Aboriginal point of view.
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H2O
as Grand Chief Katie BlackfireH2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television...
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The Englishman's Boy
as Little Soldier's WifeHaunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical...
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