Tantoo Cardinal
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 20 July 1950 · 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.
Known for
Acting 81
- 2026Wildwood as Iphigenia (voice)
- 2025Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood as Self
- 2024Inkwo for When the Starving Return as Auntie (voice)
- 2024An Ode for Leviticus as Luna
- 2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo as Self - Chula
- 2023Killers of the Flower Moon as Lizzie Q
- 2022The Last Manhunt as Ticup
- 2022Wendell & Wild as Ms. Hunter (voice)
- 2021However Wide the Sky: Places of Power as Self - Narrator
- 2021Back Home Again as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
- 2021Tantoo Cardinal as self
- 2020The Corruption of Divine Providence as Juniper Fairweather
- 2019Red Snow as Grandmother Ruth
- 2019The Grizzlies as Janace
- 2019Through Black Spruce as Mary-Lou
- 2018Abandoned: Angelique's Isle as Green Thunderbird Woman
- 2018Hold the Dark as Illanaq
- 2018Falls Around Her as Mary Birchbark
- 2017The Great Northern Candy Drop as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
- 2017Wind River as Alice Crowheart
- 2016ARQ as The Pope
- 2016On the Farm as Ada Taylor
- 2015Hope Bridge as Lana
- 2014Rez Carz as (voice)
- 2014Chasing Shakespeare as Older Venus
- 2014Down Here as Stella Mitchell
- 2013Maïna as Tekahera
- 2013Eden as The Nurse
- 2011Shouting Secrets as June
- 2010Fathers & Sons as Gordon’s Sister
- 2010Every Emotion Costs as Aunt Marcy
- 2009Changing Climates, Changing Times as Grace Lajoie
- 2008Mothers & Daughters as Celine
- 2008Dear Prudence as Ruth Vigil
- 2008Mom, Dad and Her as Heather
- 2008Older Than America as Auntie Apple
- 2007Luna: Spirit of the Whale as Gloria Maquinna
- 2006The Road to Christmas as Sioux Woman
- 2006Unnatural & Accidental as Aunt Shadie / Rita
- 2004H2O as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
- 2004A Thief Of Time as Irene Musket
- 2003Dreamkeeper as Old Pawnee Woman
- 2003Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
- 2002How the Fiddle Flows as Narrator (voice)
- 2002Edge of Madness as Ruth
- 2001In the Light of Reverence as Narrator (voice)
- 2001Dodson's Journey as Waitress
- 2000The Lost Child as Aunt Mary
- 2000The Hi-Line as Singing Bird
- 2000Postmark Paradise as Reenie
- 2000Navigating the Heart as Mary
- 1999A Stranger in the Kingdom as Heaven Fontaine
- 1998Smoke Signals as Arlene Joseph
- 1998Heartwood as Violet Boucher
- 1998Big Bear as Running Second
- 1998Honey Moccasin as Honey Moccasin
- 1997The Education of Little Tree as Nonna
- 1996Grand Avenue as Nellie
- 1995Tecumseh: The Last Warrior as Turtle Mother
- 1995Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West as Sarah Winnemucca
- 1995Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges as Alive
- 1994Legends of the Fall as Pet
- 1994Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Mary's Mother
- 1994Sioux City as Dawn Rainfeather
- 1994Silent Tongue as Silent Tongue
- 1993Spirit Rider as Marilyn St. Claire
- 1993Where the Rivers Flow North as Bangor
- 1993Mustard Bath as Sister Amantha
- 1991Black Robe as Chomina's Wife
- 1991The Lightning Incident as Vivian
- 1990The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Herself
- 1990Dances with Wolves as Black Shawl
- 1990Divided Loyalties as Molly Brant
- 1988War Party as Sonny's Mother
- 1988Candy Mountain as Annie
- 1987Loyalties as Rosanne Ladouceur
- 1987Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge as Little Doe
- 1986Places Not Our Own as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
- 1983Running Brave as Caroline
- 1981Death Hunt as Indian Woman
- 1978Marie Ann as Tantou, Indian princess
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- 2020Sisters Rising · executive producer