Tantoo Cardinal

Born: 1950-07-20

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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Killers of the Flower Moon

as Lizzie Q
Released: 2023-10-18

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered...

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Dances with Wolves

as Black Shawl
Released: 1990-03-30

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a...

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Wendell & Wild

as Ms. Hunter (voice)
Released: 2022-10-21

Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon...

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Wind River

as Alice Crowheart
Released: 2017-08-03

An 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 Pet
Released: 1994-12-23

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his...

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ARQ

as The Pope
Released: 2016-09-16

Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that...

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Death Hunt

as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)
Released: 1981-04-15

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the...

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Black Robe

as Chomina's Wife
Released: 1991-10-04

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to...

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Eden

as The Nurse
Released: 2013-03-20

After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire...

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The Last Manhunt

as Ticup
Released: 2022-11-18

In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father...

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Hold the Dark

as Illanaq
Released: 2018-09-22

In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he...

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Smoke Signals

as Arlene Joseph
Released: 1998-06-26

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and...

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Older Than America

as Auntie Apple
Released: 2008-03-08

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange...

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War Party

as Sonny's Mother
Released: 1988-09-15

One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry...

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Maïna

as Tekahera
Released: 2013-09-12

Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between...

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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

as Self - Chula
Released: 2024-01-31

Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series....

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The Grizzlies

as Janace
Released: 2019-04-19

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of...

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Dreamkeeper

as Old Pawnee Woman
Released: 2003-12-28

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane,...

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A Thief Of Time

as Irene Musket
Released: 2004-07-11

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts...

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Sioux City

as Dawn Rainfeather
Released: 1994-04-01

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with...

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The Lightning Incident

as Vivian
Released: 1991-09-12

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic...

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The Road to Christmas

as Sioux Woman
Released: 2006-12-17

High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the...

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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

as Little Doe
Released: 1987-09-27

Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly...

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Through Black Spruce

as Mary-Lou
Released: 2019-03-29

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and...

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Inkwo For When the Starving Return

as (Auntie)
Released: 2024-09-26

Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting...

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Dear Prudence

as Ruth Vigil
Released: 2008-08-23

Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio...

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Candy Mountain

as Annie
Released: 1988-01-20

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

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A Stranger in the Kingdom

as Heaven Fontaine
Released: 1999-11-23

A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when...

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Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

as Turtle Mother
Released: 1995-06-04

This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from...

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The Education of Little Tree

as Nonna
Released: 1997-12-25

Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his...

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Navigating the Heart

as Mary
Released: 2000-02-14

When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to...

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Edge of Madness

as Ruth
Released: 2002-02-18

1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness...

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Wildwood

as (voice)
Released:

Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even...

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Silent Tongue

as Silent Tongue
Released: 1993-01-28

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body...

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Chasing Shakespeare

as Older Venus
Released: 2014-02-03

Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.

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Running Brave

as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)
Released: 1983-11-04

The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter...

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The Lost Child

as Aunt Mary
Released: 2000-11-19

Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets...

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Heartwood

as Violet Boucher
Released: 1998-04-19

When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of...

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Divided Loyalties

as Molly Brant
Released: 1990-02-13

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a...

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Where the Rivers Flow North

as Bangor
Released: 1993-06-14

Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers...

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Mom, Dad and Her

as Heather
Released: 2008-05-10

Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of...

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Grand Avenue

as Nellie
Released: 1996-06-30

When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by...

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Luna: Spirit of the Whale

as Gloria Maquinna
Released: 2007-05-13

When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his...

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Red Snow

as Grandmother Ruth
Released: 2019-10-02

Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian...

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Back Home Again

as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
Released: 2021-10-28

An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of...

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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

as Herself
Released: 1990-11-15

A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial...

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Hope Bridge

as Lana
Released: 2015-05-08

After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find...

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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

as Mary's Mother
Released: 1994-10-16

Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the...

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The Corruption of Divine Providence

as Juniper Fairweather
Released: 2020-05-25

16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata...

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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

as Self
Released: 2003-05-20

A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It...

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Down Here

as Stella Mitchell
Released: 2014-01-01

When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's...

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Unnatural & Accidental

as Aunt Shadie / Rita
Released: 2006-07-07

Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her...

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Falls Around Her

as Mary Birchbark
Released: 2018-09-08

A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to...

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The Great Northern Candy Drop

as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
Released: 2017-12-17

The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government...

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Mothers & Daughters

as Celine
Released: 2008-09-08

Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

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On the Farm

as Ada Taylor
Released: 2016-07-26

Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and...

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H2O

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
Released: 2004-10-31

When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes...

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In the Light of Reverence

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2001-02-17

This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places...

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Changing Climates, Changing Times

as Grace Lajoie
Released: 2009-02-04

Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be...

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Honey Moccasin

as Honey Moccasin
Released: 1998-01-01

This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new...

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Loyalties

as Rosanne Ladouceur
Released: 1987-11-20

Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated...

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Fathers & Sons

as Gordon’s Sister
Released: 2010-10-01

Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their...

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Tantoo Cardinal

as self
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A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles...

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The Hi-Line

as Singing Bird
Released: 2000-05-05

A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and...

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Big Bear

as Running Second
Released: 1998-02-09

The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land...

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Marie Ann

as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)
Released: 1978-08-02

A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.

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Places Not Our Own

as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
Released: 1986-01-01

By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the...

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An Ode for Leviticus

as Luna
Released: 2024-02-10

A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape.

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Mustard Bath

as Sister Amantha
Released: 1993-01-01

Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on...

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Rez Carz

as (voice)
Released: 2014-04-12

Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within...

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Outlander

as Adawehi
First aired: 2014-08-09

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in...

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Westworld

as Ehawee
First aired: 2016-10-02

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the...

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See

as The Dreamer
First aired: 2019-11-01

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins...

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Bull

as Chief Tsosie
First aired: 2016-09-20

Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial...

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New Amsterdam

as Professor Jane Munsee
First aired: 2018-09-25

The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public...

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Longmire

as Marilyn Yarlott
First aired: 2012-06-03

A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the...

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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Snow Bird
First aired: 1993-01-01

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's...

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Penny Dreadful

as Old Native American Woman
First aired: 2014-05-11

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and...

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The Killing

as Hooker
First aired: 2011-04-03

The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series...

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Street Legal

as Renee Stonehouse
First aired: 1987-01-06

Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994....

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Frontier

as Kamenna
First aired: 2016-11-06

The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in...

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Family Law

as Mrs. Grant
First aired: 1999-09-20

Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm...

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Echo

as Chula Battiest
First aired: 2024-01-09

Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront...

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Godless

as Iyovi
First aired: 2017-11-22

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a...

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Cardinal

as Nookomis
First aired: 2017-01-25

Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing...

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North of 60

as Betty Moses
First aired: 1992-12-03

North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern...

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Stumptown

as Sue Lynn Blackbird
First aired: 2019-09-25

Dex Parios is a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a...

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Cold Squad

as Theresa Sandiman
First aired: 1998-01-23

Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that...

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Arctic Air

as Aunt Mary
First aired: 2012-01-10

Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs...

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Three Pines

as Bea Mayer
First aired: 2022-12-01

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the...

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The Campbells

as Maria Brant
First aired: 1986-04-04

The Campbells was a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, which aired on Scottish...

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ONI: Thunder God's Tale

as Principal (voice)
First aired: 2022-10-21

In a mystical world of Japanese gods and spirits, a courageous girl strives to follow in her...

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Spirit Rangers

as Moon (voice)
First aired: 2022-10-10

Native American siblings Kodi, Summer and Eddy have a secret: They’re "Spirit Rangers" who help...

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Harts of the West

as Helen
First aired: 1993-09-25

Harts of the West is an American Western/comedy–drama series starring Beau Bridges and his...

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Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
First aired: 1995-09-21

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The Guard

as Ursula
First aired: 2008-01-22

This one hour drama follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. The...

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Strange Empire

as Pichette
First aired: 2014-10-06

Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, “Strange Empire” is a Western whose heroes are...

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MythQuest

as Walloha
First aired: 2001-08-01

While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths...

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Corner Gas Animated

as Real Estate Agent (voice)
First aired: 2018-04-02

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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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Aunt Mary
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Shattered

as Carol
First aired: 2010-09-01

Shattered is a Canadian police procedural series. The main character is a tough, smart homicide...

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Blackstone

as Wilma Stoney
First aired: 2011-01-25

The lives of Indians on the Blackstone Indian reserve, told from an Aboriginal point of view.

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The American Buffalo

as (voice)
First aired: 2023-10-16

The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for...

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For The Record

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-01-01

For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series,...

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H2O

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
First aired: 2004-10-31

H2O 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 Wife
First aired: 2008-03-02

Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical...

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Mohawk Girls

as Zoe’s Mom
First aired: 2014-11-23

Four young women are figuring out how to be Mohawk in the 21st century, to find their place in...

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Canada: A People's History

as Plains Storyteller
First aired: 2000-10-22

The complete landmark documentary series follows events from pre-history to 1990. Charting the...

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