Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 20, 1941
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Biography
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Self |
| 2020 | Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble | Self |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Self |
| 2015 | The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code | Narrator |
| 2013 | Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation | Self |
| 2010 | Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie | Self |
| 2010 | Buffy | Self |
| 2006 | Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life | Self |
| 1999 | Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson | Self - Cree (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong | Main Artist |
| 1993 | The Broken Chain | Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife |
| 1990 | Uranium | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1985 | Broken Rainbow | Translator's Voice (voice) |
| 1980 | Walkabout to Hollywood | Self |
| 1979 | A Walking Tour of Sesame Street | Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1971 | As Long as the Rivers Run | Self |
| 1967 | Festival | Self |
| 1965 | The Creative Person: The Folksinger | Self |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America | self |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | The Spirit (voice) |
| 1975 | Austin City Limits | Self |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self |
| 1969 | The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour | Self |
| 1969 | Then Came Bronson | Tender Grass |
| 1964 | Top of the Pops | Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Nai'Be |
| 1958 | Kraft Music Hall | Self |