Tantoo Cardinal
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 upcomin...
Known For
Filmography
Wildwood
2026
as Iphigenia (voice)
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025
as Self
The American Revolution
2025
as (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024
as Self - Chula
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2024
as Auntie (voice)
An Ode for Leviticus
2024
as Luna
Echo
2024
as Chula Battiest
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
as Lizzie Q
The American Buffalo
2023
as (voice)
Wendell & Wild
2022
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
The Last Manhunt
2022
as Ticup
Three Pines
2022
as Bea Mayer
Spirit Rangers
2022
as Moon (voice)
ONI: Thunder God's Tale
2022
as Principal (voice)
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
2022
as Marie Chalifoux (voice)
Back Home Again
2021
as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
Tantoo Cardinal
2021
as self
However Wide the Sky: Places of Power
2021
as Self - Narrator
The Corruption of Divine Providence
2020
as Juniper Fairweather
Through Black Spruce
2019
as Mary-Lou
The Grizzlies
2019
as Janace
Red Snow
2019
as Grandmother Ruth
Stumptown
2019
as Sue Lynn Blackbird
See
2019
as The Dreamer
Falls Around Her
2018
as Mary Birchbark
Hold the Dark
2018
as Illanaq
Abandoned: Angelique's Isle
2018
as Green Thunderbird Woman
Corner Gas Animated
2018
as Real Estate Agent (voice)
New Amsterdam
2018
as Jane Munsee
Wind River
2017
as Alice Crowheart
The Great Northern Candy Drop
2017
as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
Cardinal
2017
as Nookomis
Godless
2017
as Iyovi
On the Farm
2016
as Ada Taylor
ARQ
2016
as The Pope
Frontier
2016
as Kamenna
Westworld
2016
as Ehawee
Bull
2016
as Chief Tsosie
Hope Bridge
2015
as Lana
Rez Carz
2014
as (voice)
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
as Older Venus
Down Here
2014
as Stella Mitchell
Strange Empire
2014
as Pichette
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Old Native American Woman
Mohawk Girls
2014
as Zoe’s Mom
Outlander
2014
as Adawehi
Eden
2013
as The Nurse
Maïna
2013
as Tekahera
Arctic Air
2012
as Aunt Mary
Longmire
2012
as Marilyn Yarlott
Shouting Secrets
2011
as June
The Killing
2011
as Hooker
Blackstone
2011
as Wilma Stoney
Every Emotion Costs
2010
as Aunt Marcy
Fathers & Sons
2010
as Gordon’s Sister
Shattered
2010
as Carol
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
as Grace Lajoie
Older Than America
2008
as Auntie Apple
Mom, Dad and Her
2008
as Heather
Dear Prudence
2008
as Ruth Vigil
Mothers & Daughters
2008
as Celine
The Guard
2008
as Ursula
The Englishman's Boy
2008
as Little Soldier's Wife
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
2007
as Gloria Maquinna
Unnatural & Accidental
2006
as Aunt Shadie / Rita
The Road to Christmas
2006
as Sioux Woman
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
2006
as Iba Beauvais
A Thief Of Time
2004
as Irene Musket
H2O
2004
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
H2O
2004
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
Dreamkeeper
2003
as Old Pawnee Woman
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003
as Self
Moccasin Flats
2003
as Betty
Dreamkeeper
2003
as Old Pawnee Woman
Edge of Madness
2002
as Ruth
How the Fiddle Flows
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Tom Stone
2002
as Judge Crowfoot
Dodson's Journey
2001
as Waitress
In the Light of Reverence
2001
as Narrator (voice)
MythQuest
2001
as Walloha
The Hi-Line
2000
as Singing Bird
The Lost Child
2000
as Aunt Mary
Navigating the Heart
2000
as Mary
Postmark Paradise
2000
as Reenie
Canada: A People's History
2000
as Plains Storyteller
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999
as Heaven Fontaine
Family Law
1999
as Mrs. Grant
Smoke Signals
1998
as Arlene Joseph
Heartwood
1998
as Violet Boucher
Big Bear
1998
as Running Second
Honey Moccasin
1998
as Honey Moccasin
Cold Squad
1998
as Theresa Sandiman
The Education of Little Tree
1997
as Nonna
Grand Avenue
1996
as Nellie
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
1995
as Turtle Mother
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995
as Sarah Winnemucca
Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
1995
as Alive
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995
as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
Legends of the Fall
1994
as Pet
Silent Tongue
1994
as Silent Tongue
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994
as Mary's Mother
Sioux City
1994
as Dawn Rainfeather
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
as Bangor
Spirit Rider
1993
as Marilyn St. Claire
Mustard Bath
1993
as Sister Amantha
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
as Snow Bird
Harts of the West
1993
as Helen
North of 60
1992
as Betty Moses
Black Robe
1991
as Chomina's Wife
The Lightning Incident
1991
as Vivian
Dances with Wolves
1990
as Black Shawl
Divided Loyalties
1990
as Molly Brant
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990
as Herself
War Party
1988
as Sonny's Mother
Candy Mountain
1988
as Annie
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987
as Little Doe
Loyalties
1987
as Rosanne Ladouceur
Street Legal
1987
as Renee Stonehouse
Places Not Our Own
1986
as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
The Campbells
1986
as Maria Brant
Running Brave
1983
as Caroline
Death Hunt
1981
as Indian Woman
Marie Ann
1978
as Tantou, Indian princess
For the Record
1976
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Aunt Mary