Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 20, 1950
Place of Birth:
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood | |
| 2024 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo | Self - Chula |
| 2024 | Inkwo for When the Starving Return | Auntie (voice) |
| 2024 | An Ode for Leviticus | Luna |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Lizzie Q |
| 2022 | Wendell & Wild | Ms. Hunter (voice) |
| 2022 | The Last Manhunt | Ticup |
| 2021 | Back Home Again | Mrs. Grey Horns (voice) |
| 2020 | The Corruption of Divine Providence | Juniper Fairweather |
| 2019 | Through Black Spruce | Mary-Lou |
| 2019 | The Grizzlies | Janace |
| 2019 | Red Snow | Grandmother Ruth |
| 2018 | Falls Around Her | Mary Birchbark |
| 2018 | Hold the Dark | Illanaq |
| 2017 | Wind River | Alice Crowheart |
| 2017 | The Great Northern Candy Drop | Narrator / Louisa (voice) |
| 2016 | On the Farm | Ada Taylor |
| 2016 | ARQ | The Pope |
| 2015 | Hope Bridge | Lana |
| 2014 | Rez Carz | (voice) |
| 2014 | Chasing Shakespeare | Older Venus |
| 2014 | Down Here | Stella Mitchell |
| 2013 | Eden | The Nurse |
| 2013 | Maïna | Tekahera |
| 2011 | Shouting Secrets | June |
| 2010 | Every Emotion Costs | Aunt Marcy |
| 2010 | Fathers & Sons | Gordon’s Sister |
| 2009 | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Grace Lajoie |
| 2008 | Older Than America | Auntie Apple |
| 2008 | Mom, Dad and Her | Heather |
| 2008 | Dear Prudence | Ruth Vigil |
| 2008 | Mothers & Daughters | Celine |
| 2007 | Luna: Spirit of the Whale | Gloria Maquinna |
| 2006 | Unnatural & Accidental | Aunt Shadie / Rita |
| 2006 | The Road to Christmas | Sioux Woman |
| 2004 | A Thief Of Time | Irene Musket |
| 2004 | H2O | Grand Chief Katie Blackfire |
| 2003 | Dreamkeeper | Old Pawnee Woman |
| 2003 | Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic | Self |
| 2002 | Edge of Madness | Ruth |
| 2002 | How the Fiddle Flows | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Dodson's Journey | Waitress |
| 2001 | In the Light of Reverence | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | The Hi-Line | Singing Bird |
| 2000 | The Lost Child | Aunt Mary |
| 2000 | Navigating the Heart | Mary |
| 2000 | Postmark Paradise | Reenie |
| 1999 | A Stranger in the Kingdom | Heaven Fontaine |
| 1998 | Smoke Signals | Arlene Joseph |
| 1998 | Heartwood | Violet Boucher |
| 1998 | Big Bear | Running Second |
| 1998 | Honey Moccasin | Honey Moccasin |
| 1997 | The Education of Little Tree | Nonna |
| 1996 | Grand Avenue | Nellie |
| 1995 | Tecumseh: The Last Warrior | Turtle Mother |
| 1995 | Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West | Sarah Winnemucca |
| 1995 | Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges | Alive |
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Pet |
| 1994 | Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee | Mary's Mother |
| 1994 | Sioux City | Dawn Rainfeather |
| 1993 | Silent Tongue | Silent Tongue |
| 1993 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Bangor |
| 1993 | Spirit Rider | Marilyn St. Claire |
| 1993 | Mustard Bath | Sister Amantha |
| 1991 | Black Robe | Chomina's Wife |
| 1991 | The Lightning Incident | Vivian |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Black Shawl |
| 1990 | Divided Loyalties | Molly Brant |
| 1990 | The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' | Herself |
| 1988 | War Party | Sonny's Mother |
| 1988 | Candy Mountain | Annie |
| 1987 | Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge | Little Doe |
| 1987 | Loyalties | Rosanne Ladouceur |
| 1986 | Places Not Our Own | Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal) |
| 1983 | Running Brave | Caroline (as Tantoo Martin) |
| 1981 | Death Hunt | Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin) |
| 1978 | Marie Ann | Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin) |
| Tantoo Cardinal | self | |
| Wildwood | (voice) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Echo | Chula Battiest |
| 2023 | The American Buffalo | (voice) |
| 2022 | Three Pines | Bea Mayer |
| 2022 | Spirit Rangers | Moon (voice) |
| 2022 | ONI: Thunder God's Tale | Principal (voice) |
| 2019 | Stumptown | Sue Lynn Blackbird |
| 2019 | See | The Dreamer |
| 2018 | Corner Gas Animated | Real Estate Agent (voice) |
| 2018 | New Amsterdam | Jane Munsee |
| 2017 | Cardinal | Nookomis |
| 2017 | Godless | Iyovi |
| 2016 | Frontier | Kamenna |
| 2016 | Westworld | Ehawee |
| 2016 | Bull | Chief Tsosie |
| 2014 | Mohawk Girls | Zoe’s Mom |
| 2014 | Strange Empire | Pichette |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | Old Native American Woman |
| 2014 | Outlander | Adawehi |
| 2012 | Arctic Air | Aunt Mary |
| 2012 | Longmire | Marilyn Yarlott |
| 2011 | The Killing | Hooker |
| 2011 | Blackstone | Wilma Stoney |
| 2010 | Shattered | Carol |
| 2008 | The Guard | Ursula |
| 2008 | The Englishman's Boy | Little Soldier's Wife |
| 2006 | Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis | Iba Beauvais |
| 2004 | H2O | Grand Chief Katie Blackfire |
| 2003 | Moccasin Flats | Betty |
| 2002 | Tom Stone | Judge Crowfoot |
| 2001 | MythQuest | Walloha |
| 2000 | Canada: A People's History | Plains Storyteller |
| 1999 | Family Law | Mrs. Grant |
| 1998 | Cold Squad | Theresa Sandiman |
| 1995 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Gabe LaRoche’s Mother |
| 1993 | Harts of the West | Helen |
| 1993 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Snow Bird |
| 1992 | North of 60 | Betty Moses |
| 1987 | Street Legal | Renee Stonehouse |
| 1986 | The Campbells | Maria Brant |
| 1977 | For The Record | |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Aunt Mary |