Buffy Sainte-Marie
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Vil...
Known For
Filmography
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022
as Self
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020
as Self
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
2018
as Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017
as Self
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
2015
as Narrator
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013
as Self
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011
as Self
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010
as Self
Buffy
2010
as Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006
as Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999
as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
1996
as Main Artist
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The Spirit (voice)
The Broken Chain
1993
as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
Uranium
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Broken Rainbow
1985
as Translator's Voice (voice)
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980
as Self
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979
as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Austin City Limits
1975
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
As Long as the Rivers Run
1971
as Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
Then Came Bronson
1969
as Tender Grass
Festival
1967
as Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965
as Self
Top of the Pops
1964
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Virginian
1962
as Nai'Be
Kraft Music Hall
1958
as Self