Tantoo Cardinal

ActorProducer Jul 20 (age 75) Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada 1951–2026 (75 year career)

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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

Film

Dances with Wolves

Black Shawl

Film

Wind River

Alice Crowheart

Film

Killers of the Flower Moon

Lizzie Q

Film

Legends of the Fall

Pet

Film

Godless

Iyovi

Film

ARQ

The Pope

Film

Wendell & Wild

Ms. Hunter (voice)

Film

Echo

Chula Battiest

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (79)

Wildwood

2026 Upcoming

as (voice)

Oct 23

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood

2025

as Self

7.3

An Ode for Leviticus

2024

as Luna

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

2024

as Auntie (voice)

2.0

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

2024

as Self - Chula

5.8

Killers of the Flower Moon

as Lizzie Q

The Last Manhunt

as Ticup

Wendell & Wild

as Ms. Hunter (voice)

6.6

Tantoo Cardinal

2021

as self

Back Home Again

2021

as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)

7.0

The Corruption of Divine Providence

2020

as Juniper Fairweather

The Grizzlies

as Janace

Through Black Spruce

as Mary-Lou

Red Snow

as Grandmother Ruth

Hold the Dark

as Illanaq

Falls Around Her

as Mary Birchbark

The Great Northern Candy Drop

2017

as Narrator / Louisa (voice)

Wind River

as Alice Crowheart

ARQ

as The Pope

On the Farm

as Ada Taylor

Hope Bridge

as Lana

Chasing Shakespeare

as Older Venus

Down Here

as Stella Mitchell

Rez Carz

as (voice)

Eden

as The Nurse

Maïna

as Tekahera

Shouting Secrets

as June

Fathers & Sons

as Gordon’s Sister

Every Emotion Costs

as Aunt Marcy

Changing Climates, Changing Times

as Grace Lajoie

Mothers & Daughters

as Celine

Older Than America

as Auntie Apple

Dear Prudence

as Ruth Vigil

Mom, Dad and Her

as Heather

Luna: Spirit of the Whale

2007

as Gloria Maquinna

6.2

The Road to Christmas

2006

as Sioux Woman

5.7

Unnatural & Accidental

2006

as Aunt Shadie / Rita

4.0

H2O

2004

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire

A Thief Of Time

as Irene Musket

Dreamkeeper

as Old Pawnee Woman

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

as Self

Edge of Madness

as Ruth

How the Fiddle Flows

as Narrator (voice)

Dodson's Journey

2001

as Waitress

3.3

In the Light of Reverence

2001

as Narrator (voice)

The Lost Child

as Aunt Mary

Navigating the Heart

as Mary

The Hi-Line

as Singing Bird

Postmark Paradise

as Reenie

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999

as Heaven Fontaine

2.8

Big Bear

1998

as Running Second

Honey Moccasin

as Honey Moccasin

Smoke Signals

as Arlene Joseph

Heartwood

as Violet Boucher

The Education of Little Tree

as Nonna

Grand Avenue

as Nellie

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

1995

as Turtle Mother

6.0

Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West

1995

as Sarah Winnemucca

Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges

1995

as Alive

Legends of the Fall

as Pet

Sioux City

as Dawn Rainfeather

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

as Mary's Mother

Silent Tongue

as Silent Tongue

Where the Rivers Flow North

1993

as Bangor

6.2

Mustard Bath

1993

as Sister Amantha

Spirit Rider

1993

as Marilyn St. Claire

6.0

The Lightning Incident

as Vivian

Black Robe

as Chomina's Wife

Dances with Wolves

as Black Shawl

Divided Loyalties

as Molly Brant

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

as Herself

War Party

as Sonny's Mother

Candy Mountain

as Annie

Loyalties

as Rosanne Ladouceur

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

1987

as Little Doe

6.4

Places Not Our Own

1986

as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)

Running Brave

as Caroline

Death Hunt

as Indian Woman

Marie Ann

as Tantou, Indian princess

Television (45)

The American Revolution

as (voice)

Echo

as Chula Battiest

The American Buffalo

as (voice)

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib

2022

as Marie Chalifoux (voice)

7.4

Spirit Rangers

2022

as Moon (voice)

6.8

ONI: Thunder God's Tale

as Principal (voice)

Three Pines

as Bea Mayer

See

as The Dreamer

Stumptown

as Sue Lynn Blackbird

New Amsterdam

as Jane Munsee

Corner Gas Animated

as Real Estate Agent (voice)

Cardinal

as Nookomis

Godless

as Iyovi

Westworld

as Ehawee

Bull

as Chief Tsosie

Frontier

as Kamenna

Outlander

as Adawehi

Penny Dreadful

as Old Native American Woman

Mohawk Girls

as Zoe’s Mom

Strange Empire

as Pichette

Longmire

as Marilyn Yarlott

Arctic Air

as Aunt Mary

The Killing

as Hooker

Blackstone

as Wilma Stoney

Shattered

as Carol

The Guard

as Ursula

The Englishman's Boy

as Little Soldier's Wife

3.3

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

2006

as Iba Beauvais

H2O

2004

as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire

Dreamkeeper

as Old Pawnee Woman

Moccasin Flats

as Betty

Tom Stone

as Judge Crowfoot

MythQuest

as Walloha

Canada: A People's History

2000

as Plains Storyteller

Family Law

as Mrs. Grant

Cold Squad

as Theresa Sandiman

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

1995

as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother

5.7

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

as Snow Bird

Harts of the West

as Helen

North of 60

as Betty Moses

Street Legal

as Renee Stonehouse

The Campbells

as Maria Brant

For the Record

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Aunt Mary

8.6

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Sisters Rising

2020

Executive Producer

8.0