Tantoo Cardinal
July 20, 1950 (75 years old) in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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
Credits
- 2025 · Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood as
- 2024 · Avatar the Last Airbender as Hama
- 2024 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo as Self - Chula
- 2024 · Echo as Chula Battiest
- 2023 · Killers of the Flower Moon as Lizzie Q
- 2022 · Three Pines as Bea Mayer
- 2022 · The Last Manhunt as Ticup
- 2022 · Wendell & Wild as Ms. Hunter (voice)
- 2022 · ONI: Thunder God's Tale as Principal (voice)
- 2022 · Spirit Rangers as Moon (voice)
- 2021 · Back Home Again as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
- 2019 · See as The Dreamer
- 2019 · Red Snow as Grandmother Ruth
- 2019 · Stumptown as Sue Lynn Blackbird
- 2018 · New Amsterdam as Jane Munsee
- 2018 · Corner Gas Animated as Real Estate Agent (voice)
- 2017 · Godless as Iyovi
- 2017 · Wind River as Alice Crowheart
- 2017 · Cardinal as Nookomis
- 2016 · Frontier as Kamenna
- 2016 · Westworld as Ehawee
- 2016 · Bull as Chief Tsosie
- 2016 · ARQ as The Pope
- 2014 · Outlander as Adawehi
- 2014 · Penny Dreadful as Old Native American Woman
- 2014 · Chasing Shakespeare as Older Venus
- 2013 · Eden as The Nurse
- 2012 · Longmire as Marilyn Yarlott
- 2012 · Arctic Air as Aunt Mary
- 2011 · The Killing as Hooker
- 2011 · Blackstone as Wilma Stoney
- 2010 · Shattered as Carol
- 2008 · The Guard as Ursula
- 2004 · H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
- 2003 · Dreamkeeper as Old Pawnee Woman
- 2002 · Edge of Madness as Ruth
- 2002 · Tom Stone as Judge Crowfoot
- 2001 · MythQuest as Walloha
- 1999 · Family Law as Mrs. Grant
- 1998 · Smoke Signals as Arlene Joseph
- 1998 · Cold Squad as Theresa Sandiman
- 1997 · The Education of Little Tree as Nonna
- 1994 · Legends of the Fall as Pet
- 1994 · Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Mary's Mother
- 1993 · Harts of the West 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 as Snow Bird
- 1992 · North of 60 as Betty Moses
- 1991 · Black Robe as Chomina's Wife
- 1991 · The Lightning Incident as Vivian
- 1990 · Dances with Wolves as Black Shawl
- 1988 · Candy Mountain as Annie
- 1987 · Street Legal as Renee Stonehouse
- 1986 · The Campbells as Maria Brant
- 1983 · Running Brave as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)
- 1981 · Death Hunt as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)
- 1977 · For The Record as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Wildwood as (voice)
- 2024 · Inkwo for When the Starving Return as Auntie (voice)
- 2024 · An Ode for Leviticus as Luna
- 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
- 2021 · Tantoo Cardinal as self
- 2020 · The Corruption of Divine Providence as Juniper Fairweather
- 2019 · The Grizzlies as Janace
- 2019 · Through Black Spruce as Mary-Lou
- 2018 · Hold the Dark as Illanaq
- 2018 · Falls Around Her as Mary Birchbark
- 2017 · The Great Northern Candy Drop as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
- 2016 · On the Farm as Ada Taylor
- 2015 · Hope Bridge as Lana
- 2014 · Mohawk Girls as Zoe’s Mom
- 2014 · Strange Empire as Pichette
- 2014 · Rez Carz as (voice)
- 2014 · Down Here as Stella Mitchell
- 2013 · Maïna as Tekahera
- 2011 · Shouting Secrets as June
- 2010 · Fathers & Sons as Gordon’s Sister
- 2010 · Every Emotion Costs as Aunt Marcy
- 2009 · Changing Climates, Changing Times 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 as Little Soldier's Wife
- 2007 · Luna: Spirit of the Whale as Gloria Maquinna
- 2006 · The Road to Christmas as Sioux Woman
- 2006 · Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis as Iba Beauvais
- 2006 · Unnatural & Accidental as Aunt Shadie / Rita
- 2004 · H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
- 2004 · A Thief Of Time as Irene Musket
- 2003 · Moccasin Flats as Betty
- 2003 · Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
- 2002 · How the Fiddle Flows as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In the Light of Reverence as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Dodson's Journey as Waitress
- 2000 · The Lost Child as Aunt Mary
- 2000 · Canada: A People's History 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
- 1998 · Heartwood as Violet Boucher
- 1998 · Big Bear as Running Second
- 1998 · Honey Moccasin as Honey Moccasin
- 1996 · Grand Avenue as Nellie
- 1995 · Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years 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 · Sioux City as Dawn Rainfeather
- 1993 · Mustard Bath as Sister Amantha
- 1990 · The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Herself
- 1990 · Divided Loyalties as Molly Brant
- 1988 · War Party as Sonny's Mother
- 1987 · Loyalties as Rosanne Ladouceur
- 1987 · Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge as Little Doe
- 1986 · Places Not Our Own as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
- 1978 · Marie Ann as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Aunt Mary