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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 20, 1950
Place of Birth
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Also Known As
- Tantoo Martin
- Tantoo Martin-Cardinal
- تانتو کاردینال
Tantoo Cardinal
0.7 Popularity
Biography
Tantoo Cardinal CM is a 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
8.0
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025
1.0
Auntie (voice)
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2024
0.0
Luna
An Ode for Leviticus
2024
5.9
Self - Chula
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024
6.1
Chula Battiest
Echo
2024
7.4
Lizzie Q
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
6.7
(voice)
The American Buffalo
2023
6.3
Bea Mayer
Three Pines
2022
6.0
Ticup
The Last Manhunt
2022
6.7
Ms. Hunter (voice)
Wendell & Wild
2022
Credits
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025
8.0
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
as Auntie (voice)
2024
1.0
An Ode for Leviticus
as Luna
2024
0.0
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
as Self - Chula
2024
5.9
Echo
as Chula Battiest
2024
6.1
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Lizzie Q
2023
7.4
The American Buffalo
as (voice)
2023
6.7
Three Pines
as Bea Mayer
2022
6.3
The Last Manhunt
as Ticup
2022
6.0
Wendell & Wild
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
2022
6.7
ONI: Thunder God's Tale
as Principal (voice)
2022
7.7
Spirit Rangers
as Moon (voice)
2022
6.6
Back Home Again
as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
2021
7.0
The Corruption of Divine Providence
as Juniper Fairweather
2020
7.0
See
as The Dreamer
2019
8.1
Red Snow
as Grandmother Ruth
2019
5.3
Stumptown
as Sue Lynn Blackbird
2019
7.2
The Grizzlies
as Janace
2019
7.2
Through Black Spruce
as Mary-Lou
2019
5.3
New Amsterdam
as Jane Munsee
2018
8.4
Hold the Dark
as Illanaq
2018
5.4
Falls Around Her
as Mary Birchbark
2018
7.5
Corner Gas Animated
as Real Estate Agent (voice)
2018
6.9
The Great Northern Candy Drop
as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
2017
6.0
Godless
as Iyovi
2017
7.8
Wind River
as Alice Crowheart
2017
7.4
Cardinal
as Nookomis
2017
6.9
Frontier
as Kamenna
2016
6.8
Westworld
as Ehawee
2016
8.0
Bull
as Chief Tsosie
2016
7.1
ARQ
as The Pope
2016
6.1
On the Farm
as Ada Taylor
2016
5.0
Hope Bridge
as Lana
2015
5.3
Mohawk Girls
as Zoe’s Mom
2014
5.5
Strange Empire
as Pichette
2014
5.2
Outlander
as Adawehi
2014
8.2
Penny Dreadful
as Old Native American Woman
2014
7.8
Rez Carz
as (voice)
2014
0.0
Chasing Shakespeare
as Older Venus
2014
3.1
Down Here
as Stella Mitchell
2014
5.2
Maïna
as Tekahera
2013
6.4
Eden
as The Nurse
2013
6.5
Longmire
as Marilyn Yarlott
2012
7.7
Arctic Air
as Aunt Mary
2012
6.6
🎬
Shouting Secrets
as June
2011
9.0
The Killing
as Hooker
2011
7.8
Blackstone
as Wilma Stoney
2011
7.0
Fathers & Sons
as Gordon’s Sister
2010
3.5
Shattered
as Carol
2010
5.2
🎬
Every Emotion Costs
as Aunt Marcy
2010
0.0
Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Grace Lajoie
2009
6.4
Mothers & Daughters
as Celine
2008
1.0
Dear Prudence
as Ruth Vigil
2008
5.7
Mom, Dad and Her
as Heather
2008
4.5
Older Than America
as Auntie Apple
2008
4.4
The Englishman's Boy
as Little Soldier's Wife
2008
4.0
The Guard
as Ursula
2008
7.7
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
as Gloria Maquinna
2007
6.3
The Road to Christmas
as Sioux Woman
2006
5.7
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
as Iba Beauvais
2006
0.0
Unnatural & Accidental
as Aunt Shadie / Rita
2006
4.2
H2O
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004
9.0
H2O
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004
4.7
A Thief Of Time
as Irene Musket
2004
4.7
Dreamkeeper
as Old Pawnee Woman
2003
6.6
🎬
Moccasin Flats
as Betty
2003
0.0
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
as Self
2003
8.3
🎬
How the Fiddle Flows
as Narrator (voice)
2002
0.0
Edge of Madness
as Ruth
2002
5.6
🎬
Tom Stone
as Judge Crowfoot
2002
7.5
MythQuest
as Walloha
2001
6.7
In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
🎬
Dodson's Journey
as Waitress
2001
4.0
The Lost Child
as Aunt Mary
2000
6.0
Canada: A People's History
as Plains Storyteller
2000
9.5
The Hi-Line
as Singing Bird
2000
5.2
🎬
Postmark Paradise
as Reenie
2000
0.0
Navigating the Heart
as Mary
2000
6.4
A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Heaven Fontaine
1999
3.3
Family Law
as Mrs. Grant
1999
8.2
Smoke Signals
as Arlene Joseph
1998
6.7
Heartwood
as Violet Boucher
1998
3.5
Big Bear
as Running Second
1998
0.0
Cold Squad
as Theresa Sandiman
1998
6.9
Honey Moccasin
as Honey Moccasin
1998
4.0
The Education of Little Tree
as Nonna
1997
6.6
Grand Avenue
as Nellie
1996
9.0
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
1995
6.3
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
as Turtle Mother
1995
6.0
🎬
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
as Sarah Winnemucca
1995
0.0
🎬
Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
as Alive
1995
0.0
Legends of the Fall
as Pet
1994
7.4
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
as Mary's Mother
1994
5.0
Sioux City
as Dawn Rainfeather
1994
5.1
Harts of the West
as Helen
1993
6.2
Spirit Rider
as Marilyn St. Claire
1993
6.0
Where the Rivers Flow North
as Bangor
1993
6.4
Silent Tongue
as Silent Tongue
1993
4.6
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as Snow Bird
1993
7.6
Mustard Bath
as Sister Amantha
1993
0.0
North of 60
as Betty Moses
1992
5.8
Black Robe
as Chomina's Wife
1991
6.5
The Lightning Incident
as Vivian
1991
4.0
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
as Herself
1990
6.5
Dances with Wolves
as Black Shawl
1990
7.8
Divided Loyalties
as Molly Brant
1990
0.0
War Party
as Sonny's Mother
1988
6.2
Candy Mountain
as Annie
1988
5.7
Loyalties
as Rosanne Ladouceur
1987
5.0
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
as Little Doe
1987
6.4
Street Legal
as Renee Stonehouse
1987
7.0
The Campbells
as Maria Brant
1986
5.0
Places Not Our Own
as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
1986
5.0
Running Brave
as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)
1983
3.9
Death Hunt
as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)
1981
6.6
Marie Ann
as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)
1978
0.0
For The Record
1977
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Aunt Mary
1951
8.6
Wildwood
as (voice)
N/A
0.0
Tantoo Cardinal
as self
N/A
0.0