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Tantoo Cardinal

Born 1950-07-20

📍 Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Tantoo Cardinal CM is a Native-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.

Filmography 115

The American Revolution

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

as Auntie (voice)

An Ode for Leviticus

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

as Self - Chula

as Chula Battiest

Killers of the Flower Moon

The American Buffalo

The Last Manhunt

as Ms. Hunter (voice)

ONI: Thunder God's Tale

as Principal (voice)

as Moon (voice)

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib

as Marie Chalifoux (voice)

Back Home Again

as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)

Tantoo Cardinal

The Corruption of Divine Providence

as Juniper Fairweather

as Grandmother Ruth

as Sue Lynn Blackbird

Through Black Spruce

Falls Around Her

as Mary Birchbark

Corner Gas Animated

as Real Estate Agent (voice)

The Great Northern Candy Drop

as Narrator / Louisa (voice)

as Alice Crowheart

as Chief Tsosie

as Old Native American Woman

Chasing Shakespeare

as Stella Mitchell

as Marilyn Yarlott

as Wilma Stoney

as Gordon’s Sister

Changing Climates, Changing Times

as Grace Lajoie

Mothers & Daughters

Mom, Dad and Her

Older Than America

as Auntie Apple

The Englishman's Boy

as Little Soldier's Wife

Luna: Spirit of the Whale

as Gloria Maquinna

The Road to Christmas

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

as Iba Beauvais

Unnatural & Accidental

as Aunt Shadie / Rita

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire

A Thief Of Time

as Irene Musket

as Old Pawnee Woman

as Old Pawnee Woman

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

Edge of Madness

In the Light of Reverence

as Narrator (voice)

Canada: A People's History

as Plains Storyteller

as Singing Bird

Navigating the Heart

A Stranger in the Kingdom

as Heaven Fontaine

as Arlene Joseph

as Violet Boucher

as Running Second

as Theresa Sandiman

as Honey Moccasin

The Education of Little Tree

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

as Turtle Mother

Legends of the Fall

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

as Mary's Mother

as Dawn Rainfeather

as Silent Tongue

Harts of the West

as Marilyn St. Claire

Where the Rivers Flow North

as Sister Amantha

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Chomina's Wife

The Lightning Incident

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

Dances with Wolves

Divided Loyalties

as Sonny's Mother

as Rosanne Ladouceur

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

as Renee Stonehouse

Places Not Our Own

as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)

as Indian Woman

as Tantou, Indian princess

Hallmark Hall of Fame