Tantoo Cardinal

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 114

Gender Female

Birthday 1950-07-20 (73 years old)

Place of Birth Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Also Known As

Tantoo Martin
Tantoo Martin-Cardinal
Rose Marie Cardinal

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Tantoo Cardinal

Biography

Tantoo Cardinal CM is a Canadian actress of Cree and Métis heritage. 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."

Known For

Acting

—		Wildwood as (voice)
—		Tantoo Cardinal as self

2024

(5 episodes)

2023

as Lizzie Q

2022		Three Pines (6 episodes) as Bea Mayer
2022		The Last Manhunt as Ticup
2022		ONI: Thunder God's Tale (4 episodes) as Principal (voice)
2022		Wendell & Wild as Ms. Hunter (voice)
2022		Spirit Rangers (6 episodes) as Moon (voice)

2021

as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)

2020

as Juniper Fairweather

2019		See (4 episodes) as The Dreamer
2019		Red Snow as Grandmother Ruth
2019		Stumptown (18 episodes) as Sue Lynn Blackbird
2019		The Grizzlies as Janace
2019		Through Black Spruce as Mary-Lou

2018		New Amsterdam (1 episode) as Professor Jane Munsee
2018		Hold the Dark as Illanaq
2018		Falls Around Her as Mary Birchbark
2018		Corner Gas Animated (1 episode) as Real Estate Agent (voice)

2017		The Great Northern Candy Drop as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
2017		Godless (7 episodes) as Iyovi
2017		Wind River as Alice Crowheart
2017		Cardinal (2 episodes) as Nookomis

2016		Frontier (7 episodes) as Kamenna
2016		Westworld (1 episode) as Ehawee
2016		Bull (1 episode) as Chief Tsosie
2016		ARQ as The Pope
2016		On the Farm as Ada Taylor

2015

as Lana

2014		Mohawk Girls (6 episodes) as Zoe’s Mom
2014		Strange Empire (1 episode) as Pichette
2014		Outlander (2 episodes) as Adawehi
2014		Penny Dreadful (1 episode) as Old Native American Woman
2014		Rez Carz as (voice)
2014		Chasing Shakespeare as Older Venus
2014		Down Here as Stella Mitchell

2013

as Tekahera

2012		Longmire (4 episodes) as Marilyn Yarlott
2012		Eden as The Nurse
2012		Arctic Air (1 episode) as Aunt Mary

2011		Shouting Secrets as June
2011		The Killing (1 episode) as Hooker
2011		Blackstone (18 episodes) as Wilma Stoney

2010		Fathers & Sons as Gordon’s Sister
2010		Shattered (2 episodes) as Carol
2010		Every Emotion Costs as Aunt Marcy

2009

as Grace Lajoie

2008		Mothers & Daughters as Celine
2008		Dear Prudence as Ruth Vigil
2008		Mom, Dad and Her as Heather
2008		Older Than America as Auntie Apple
2008		The Englishman's Boy (2 episodes) as Little Soldier's Wife
2008		The Guard (4 episodes) as Ursula

2007

as Gloria Maquinna

2006		The Road to Christmas as Sioux Woman
2006		Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2 episodes) as Iba Beauvais
2006		Unnatural & Accidental as Aunt Shadie / Rita

2004		H2O (2 episodes) as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004		H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004		A Thief Of Time as Irene Musket

2003		Dreamkeeper as Old Pawnee Woman
2003		Moccasin Flats (15 episodes) as Betty
2003		Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self

2002		How the Fiddle Flows as Narrator (voice)
2002		Tom Stone (1 episode) as Judge Crowfoot
2002		Edge of Madness as Ruth

2001		MythQuest (1 episode) as Walloha
2001		Dodson's Journey as Waitress

2000		The Lost Child as Aunt Mary
2000		Canada: A People's History (1 episode) as Plains Storyteller
2000		The Hi-Line as Singing Bird
2000		Postmark Paradise as Reenie
2000		Navigating the Heart as Mary

1999		A Stranger in the Kingdom as Heaven Fontaine
1999		Family Law (1 episode) as Mrs. Grant

1998		Heartwood as Violet Boucher
1998		Big Bear as Running Second
1998		Cold Squad (1 episode) as Theresa Sandiman
1998		Smoke Signals as Arlene Joseph
1998		Honey Moccasin as Honey Moccasin

1997

as Nonna

1996

as Nellie

1995		Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1 episode) as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
1995		Tecumseh: The Last Warrior as Turtle Mother
1995		Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West as Sarah Winnemucca
1995		Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges as Alive

1994		Legends of the Fall as Pet
1994		Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Mary's Mother
1994		Sioux City as Dawn Rainfeather

1993		Harts of the West (1 episode) as Helen
1993		Spirit Rider as Marilyn St. Claire
1993		Where the Rivers Flow North as Bangor
1993		Silent Tongue as Silent Tongue
1993		Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (7 episodes) as Snow Bird
1993		Mustard Bath as Sister Amantha

1992

(7 episodes) as Betty Moses

1991		Black Robe as Chomina's Wife
1991		The Lightning Incident as Vivian

1990		The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Herself
1990		Dances with Wolves as Black Shawl
1990		Divided Loyalties as Molly Brant

1988		War Party as Sonny's Mother
1988		Candy Mountain as Annie

1987		Loyalties as Rosanne Ladouceur
1987		Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge as Little Doe
1987		Street Legal (4 episodes) as Renee Stonehouse

1986		The Campbells (1 episode) as Maria Brant
1986		Places Not Our Own as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)

1983

as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)

1981

as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)

1978

as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)

1951

(1 episode) as Aunt Mary

Production

2020

… Executive Producer

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