Acting
Tantoo Cardinal
Acting · Born 1950-07-20 · Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Tantoo Cardinal (born July 20, 1950) 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."
Credits · 118
The American Revolution
2025 · (voice)
FilmBearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025 · Self
FilmInkwo for When the Starving Return
2024 · Auntie (voice)
FilmMarvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024 · Self - Chula
Echo
2024 · Chula Battiest
FilmKillers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Lizzie Q
The American Buffalo
2023 · (voice)
Three Pines
2022 · Bea Mayer
FilmThe Last Manhunt
2022 · Ticup
FilmWendell & Wild
2022 · Ms. Hunter (voice)
ONI: Thunder God's Tale
2022 · Principal (voice)
Spirit Rangers
2022 · Moon (voice)
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
2022 · Marie Chalifoux (voice)
FilmBack Home Again
2021 · Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
FilmThe Corruption of Divine Providence
2020 · Juniper Fairweather
See
2019 · The Dreamer
FilmRed Snow
2019 · Grandmother Ruth
Stumptown
2019 · Sue Lynn Blackbird
FilmThe Grizzlies
2019 · Janace
FilmThrough Black Spruce
2019 · Mary-Lou
FilmAbandoned: Angelique's Isle
2018 · Green Thunderbird Woman
New Amsterdam
2018 · Jane Munsee
FilmHold the Dark
2018 · Illanaq
FilmFalls Around Her
2018 · Mary Birchbark
Corner Gas Animated
2018 · Real Estate Agent (voice)
FilmThe Great Northern Candy Drop
2017 · Narrator / Louisa (voice)
Godless
2017 · Iyovi
FilmWind River
2017 · Alice Crowheart
Cardinal
2017 · Nookomis
Frontier
2016 · Kamenna
Westworld
2016 · Ehawee
Bull
2016 · Chief Tsosie
FilmARQ
2016 · The Pope
FilmOn the Farm
2016 · Ada Taylor
FilmHope Bridge
2015 · Lana
Mohawk Girls
2014 · Zoe’s Mom
Strange Empire
2014 · Pichette
Outlander
2014 · Adawehi
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Old Native American Woman
FilmChasing Shakespeare
2014 · Older Venus
FilmDown Here
2014 · Stella Mitchell
FilmMaïna
2013 · Tekahera
FilmEden
2013 · The Nurse
Longmire
2012 · Marilyn Yarlott
Arctic Air
2012 · Aunt Mary
Shouting Secrets
FilmShouting Secrets
2011 · June
The Killing
2011 · Hooker
Blackstone
2011 · Wilma Stoney
FilmFathers & Sons
2010 · Gordon’s Sister
Shattered
2010 · Carol
FilmChanging Climates, Changing Times
2009 · Grace Lajoie
FilmMothers & Daughters
2008 · Celine
FilmDear Prudence
2008 · Ruth Vigil
FilmMom, Dad and Her
2008 · Heather
FilmOlder Than America
2008 · Auntie Apple
The Englishman's Boy
2008 · Little Soldier's Wife
The Guard
2008 · Ursula
FilmLuna: Spirit of the Whale
2007 · Gloria Maquinna
FilmThe Road to Christmas
2006 · Sioux Woman
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
2006 · Iba Beauvais
FilmUnnatural & Accidental
2006 · Aunt Shadie / Rita
FilmH2O
2004 · Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
H2O
2004 · Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
FilmA Thief Of Time
2004 · Irene Musket
FilmDreamkeeper
2003 · Old Pawnee Woman
Dreamkeeper
2003 · Old Pawnee Woman
Moccasin Flats
Moccasin Flats
2003 · Betty
FilmDances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003 · Self
How the Fiddle Flows
FilmHow the Fiddle Flows
2002 · Narrator (voice)
FilmEdge of Madness
2002 · Ruth
Tom Stone
Tom Stone
2002 · Judge Crowfoot
MythQuest
2001 · Walloha
Dodson's Journey
FilmDodson's Journey
2001 · Waitress
FilmThe Lost Child
2000 · Aunt Mary
Canada: A People's History
2000 · Plains Storyteller
FilmThe Hi-Line
2000 · Singing Bird
Postmark Paradise
FilmPostmark Paradise
2000 · Reenie
FilmNavigating the Heart
2000 · Mary
FilmA Stranger in the Kingdom
1999 · Heaven Fontaine
Family Law
1999 · Mrs. Grant
FilmSmoke Signals
1998 · Arlene Joseph
FilmHeartwood
1998 · Violet Boucher
FilmBig Bear
1998 · Running Second
Cold Squad
1998 · Theresa Sandiman
FilmHoney Moccasin
1998 · Honey Moccasin
FilmThe Education of Little Tree
1997 · Nonna
FilmGrand Avenue
1996 · Nellie
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995 · Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
FilmTecumseh: The Last Warrior
1995 · Turtle Mother
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
FilmNobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995 · Sarah Winnemucca
FilmLegends of the Fall
1994 · Pet
FilmLakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994 · Mary's Mother
FilmSioux City
1994 · Dawn Rainfeather
FilmSilent Tongue
1994 · Silent Tongue
Harts of the West
1993 · Helen
FilmSpirit Rider
1993 · Marilyn St. Claire
FilmWhere the Rivers Flow North
1993 · Bangor
FilmMustard Bath
1993 · Sister Amantha
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993 · Snow Bird
North of 60
1992 · Betty Moses
FilmBlack Robe
1991 · Chomina's Wife
FilmThe Lightning Incident
1991 · Vivian
FilmThe Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990 · Herself
FilmDances with Wolves
1990 · Black Shawl
FilmDivided Loyalties
1990 · Molly Brant
FilmWar Party
1988 · Sonny's Mother
FilmCandy Mountain
1988 · Annie
FilmLoyalties
1987 · Rosanne Ladouceur
FilmGunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987 · Little Doe
Street Legal
1987 · Renee Stonehouse
The Campbells
1986 · Maria Brant
FilmPlaces Not Our Own
1986 · Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
FilmRunning Brave
1983 · Caroline
FilmDeath Hunt
1981 · Indian Woman
FilmMarie Ann
1978 · Tantou, Indian princess
For the Record
1976
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Aunt Mary