Birthday
1950/07/20 (74 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Also know as
Tantoo Martin, Tantoo Martin-Cardinal, تانتو کاردینال
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 proje...Read more
(1990) Dances with Wolves
as Black Shawl
(1994) Legends of the Fall
as Pet
(1998) Smoke Signals
as Arlene Joseph
(2006) Unnatural & Accidental
as Aunt Shadie / Rita
(2021) Back Home Again
as Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
(1991) Black Robe
as Chomina's Wife
(2009) Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Grace Lajoie
(2014) Rez Carz
as (voice)
(1983) Running Brave
as Caroline (as Tantoo Martin)
(2003) Dreamkeeper
as Old Pawnee Woman
(1987) Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
as Little Doe
(2013) Eden
as The Nurse
Tantoo Cardinal
as self
(1995) Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
as Turtle Mother
(2022) Wendell & Wild
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
(1993) Silent Tongue
as Silent Tongue
(2000) The Hi-Line
as Singing Bird
(1986) Places Not Our Own
as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
(1990) Divided Loyalties
as Molly Brant
(1999) A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Heaven Fontaine
(2001) Dodson's Journey
as Waitress
(2004) A Thief Of Time
as Irene Musket
(2004) H2O
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
(2006) The Road to Christmas
as Sioux Woman
(2010) Fathers & Sons
as Gordon’s Sister
(2010) Every Emotion Costs
as Aunt Marcy
(2014) Chasing Shakespeare
as Older Venus
(1991) The Lightning Incident
as Vivian
(2022) The Last Manhunt
as Ticup
(2000) The Lost Child
as Aunt Mary
(2008) Older Than America
as Auntie Apple
(2000) Navigating the Heart
as Mary
Wildwood
as (voice)
(1994) Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
as Mary's Mother
(1993) Where the Rivers Flow North
as Bangor
(2008) Mom, Dad and Her
as Heather
(1987) Loyalties
as Rosanne Ladouceur
(2007) Luna: Spirit of the Whale
as Gloria Maquinna
(2008) Dear Prudence
as Ruth Vigil
(2008) Mothers & Daughters
as Celine
(1997) The Education of Little Tree
as Nonna
(1978) Marie Ann
as Tantou, Indian princess (as Tantoo Martin)
(2024) Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
as Self - Chula
(2014) Down Here
as Stella Mitchell
(1993) Spirit Rider
as Marilyn St. Claire
(1996) Grand Avenue
as Nellie
(2002) Edge of Madness
as Ruth
(1995) Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
as Sarah Winnemucca
(1988) War Party
as Sonny's Mother
(2015) Hope Bridge
as Lana
(2001) In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice)
(1994) Sioux City
as Dawn Rainfeather
(2011) Shouting Secrets
as June
(2016) On the Farm
as Ada Taylor
(1993) Mustard Bath
as Sister Amantha
(2017) Wind River
as Alice Crowheart
(1998) Heartwood
as Violet Boucher
(1988) Candy Mountain
as Annie
(2013) Maïna
as Tekahera
(2019) Through Black Spruce
as Mary-Lou
(2019) The Grizzlies
as Janace
(2018) Falls Around Her
as Mary Birchbark
(2018) Hold the Dark
as Illanaq
(2017) The Great Northern Candy Drop
as Narrator / Louisa (voice)
(1998) Big Bear
as Running Second
(1981) Death Hunt
as Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)
(2019) Red Snow
as Grandmother Ruth
(2000) Postmark Paradise
as Reenie
(2003) Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
as Self
(1990) The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
as Herself
(2016) ARQ
as The Pope
(1998) Honey Moccasin
as Honey Moccasin
(2002) How the Fiddle Flows
as Narrator (voice)
(2023) Killers of the Flower Moon
as Lizzie Q
(2020) The Corruption of Divine Providence
as Juniper Fairweather
(1995) Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
as Alive
(2024) Inkwo For When the Starving Return
as (Auntie)
(2024) An Ode for Leviticus
as Luna
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Aunt Mary
(2002) Tom Stone
as Judge Crowfoot
(1999) Family Law
as Mrs. Grant
(2008) The Guard
as Ursula
(2018) Corner Gas Animated
as Real Estate Agent (voice)
(2008) The Englishman's Boy
as Little Soldier's Wife
(2022) Three Pines
as Bea Mayer
(1986) The Campbells
as Maria Brant
(1995) Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
as Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
(1987) Street Legal
as Renee Stonehouse
(1998) Cold Squad
as Theresa Sandiman
(1993) Harts of the West
as Helen
(2000) Canada: A People's History
as Plains Storyteller
(1992) North of 60
as Betty Moses
(2001) MythQuest
as Walloha
(1993) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
as Snow Bird
(2011) The Killing
as Hooker
(2014) Mohawk Girls
as Zoe’s Mom
(2016) Frontier
as Kamenna
(2014) Strange Empire
as Pichette
(2014) Penny Dreadful
as Old Native American Woman
(2010) Shattered
as Carol
(2012) Arctic Air
as Aunt Mary
(2017) Cardinal
as Nookomis
(2011) Blackstone
as Wilma Stoney
(2014) Outlander
as Adawehi
(2022) Spirit Rangers
as Moon (voice)
(2018) New Amsterdam
as Professor Jane Munsee
(2004) H2O
as Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
(2024) Echo
as Chula Battiest
(2017) Godless
as Iyovi
(1977) For The Record
as ---
(2016) Westworld
as Ehawee
(2023) The American Buffalo
as (voice)
(2016) Bull
as Chief Tsosie
(2019) Stumptown
as Sue Lynn Blackbird
(2003) Moccasin Flats
as Betty
(2019) See
as The Dreamer
(2022) ONI: Thunder God's Tale
as Principal (voice)
(2012) Longmire
as Marilyn Yarlott
(2006) Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
as Iba Beauvais