Tantoo Cardinal
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.
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Movies (83)
Stories That Made Us with George Stroumboulopoulos
2026 · Self
Wildwood: El bosque salvaje
2026 · Iphigenia (voice)
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025 · Self
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2024 · Auntie (voice)
An Ode for Leviticus
2024 · Luna
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024 · Self - Chula
Los asesinos de la luna
2023 · Lizzie Q
La última cacería
2022 · Ticup
Wendell y Wild
2022 · Ms. Hunter (voice)
However Wide the Sky: Places of Power
2021 · Self - Narrator
Back Home Again
2021 · Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
Tantoo Cardinal
2021 · self
The Corruption of Divine Providence
2020 · Juniper Fairweather
Sisters Rising
2020 · Executive Producer
Red Snow
2019 · Grandmother Ruth
The Grizzlies
2019 · Janace
Through Black Spruce
2019 · Mary-Lou
Abandoned: Angelique's Isle
2018 · Green Thunderbird Woman
Hold the Dark
2018 · Illanaq
Falls Around Her
2018 · Mary Birchbark
The Great Northern Candy Drop
2017 · Narrator / Louisa (voice)
Wind River
2017 · Alice Crowheart
ARQ
2016 · The Pope
On the Farm
2016 · Ada Taylor
Hope Bridge
2015 · Lana
Rez Carz
2014 · (voice)
Chasing Shakespeare
2014 · Older Venus
Down Here
2014 · Stella Mitchell
Maïna
2013 · Tekahera
Eden
2013 · The Nurse
Shouting Secrets
2011 · June
Fathers & Sons
2010 · Gordon’s Sister
Every Emotion Costs
2010 · Aunt Marcy
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009 · Grace Lajoie
Mothers & Daughters
2008 · Celine
Dear Prudence
2008 · Ruth Vigil
Mom, Dad and Her
2008 · Heather
Older Than America
2008 · Auntie Apple
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
2007 · Gloria Maquinna
The Road to Christmas
2006 · Sioux Woman
Unnatural & Accidental
2006 · Aunt Shadie / Rita
H2O
2004 · Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
A Thief Of Time
2004 · Irene Musket
Dreamkeeper
2003 · Old Pawnee Woman
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003 · Self
How the Fiddle Flows
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Edge of Madness
2002 · Ruth
In the Light of Reverence
2001 · Narrator (voice)
Dodson's Journey
2001 · Waitress
The Lost Child
2000 · Aunt Mary
The Hi-Line
2000 · Singing Bird
Postmark Paradise
2000 · Reenie
Navigating the Heart
2000 · Mary
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999 · Heaven Fontaine
Smoke Signals
1998 · Arlene Joseph
Heartwood
1998 · Violet Boucher
Big Bear
1998 · Running Second
Honey Moccasin
1998 · Honey Moccasin
The Education of Little Tree
1997 · Nonna
Grand Avenue
1996 · Nellie
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
1995 · Turtle Mother
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995 · Sarah Winnemucca
Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
1995 · Alive
Legends of the Fall
1994 · Pet
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994 · Mary's Mother
Sioux City
1994 · Dawn Rainfeather
Silent Tongue
1994 · Silent Tongue
Spirit Rider
1993 · Marilyn St. Claire
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993 · Bangor
Mustard Bath
1993 · Sister Amantha
Black Robe
1991 · Chomina's Wife
The Lightning Incident
1991 · Vivian
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990 · Herself
Dances with Wolves
1990 · Black Shawl
Divided Loyalties
1990 · Molly Brant
War Party
1988 · Sonny's Mother
Candy Mountain
1988 · Annie
Loyalties
1987 · Rosanne Ladouceur
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987 · Little Doe
Places Not Our Own
1986 · Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
Running Brave
1983 · Caroline
Death Hunt
1981 · Indian Woman
Marie Ann
1978 · Tantou, Indian princess
TV shows (46)
Below
2026 · Anik
The American Revolution
2025 · (voice)
Echo
2024 · Chula Battiest
The American Buffalo
2023 · (voice)
Three Pines
2022 · Bea Mayer
Oni: La leyenda del dios del trueno
2022 · Principal (voice)
Los guardaespíritus del bosque
2022 · Moon (voice)
Un jefe en pañales: De vuelta en la cuna
2022 · Marie Chalifoux (voice)
See
2019 · The Dreamer
Stumptown
2019 · Sue Lynn Blackbird
New Amsterdam
2018 · Jane Munsee
Corner Gas Animated
2018 · Real Estate Agent (voice)
Godless
2017 · Iyovi
Cardinal
2017 · Nookomis
Frontier
2016 · Kamenna
Westworld
2016 · Ehawee
Bull
2016 · Chief Tsosie
Mohawk Girls
2014 · Zoe’s Mom
Strange Empire
2014 · Pichette
Outlander
2014 · Adawehi
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Old Native American Woman
Longmire
2012 · Marilyn Yarlott
Arctic Air
2012 · Aunt Mary
The Killing
2011 · Hooker
Blackstone
2011 · Wilma Stoney
Shattered
2010 · Carol
The Englishman's Boy
2008 · Little Soldier's Wife
The Guard
2008 · Ursula
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
2006 · Iba Beauvais
H2O
2004 · Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
Dreamkeeper
2003 · Old Pawnee Woman
Moccasin Flats
2003 · Betty
Tom Stone
2002 · Judge Crowfoot
MythQuest
2001 · Walloha
Canada: A People's History
2000 · Plains Storyteller
Family Law
1999 · Mrs. Grant
Cold Squad
1998 · Theresa Sandiman
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995 · Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
Harts of the West
1993 · Helen
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993 · Snow Bird
North of 60
1992 · Betty Moses
Street Legal
1987 · Renee Stonehouse
The Campbells
1986 · Maria Brant
For the Record
1976
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Aunt Mary