Natar Ungalaaq
Birthday
1959/01/01 (66 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
Also know as
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Biography
Natar Ungalaaq is a talented filmmaker, actor and sculptor from Igloolik, NU. Ungalaaq began his artistic practice carving when he was a child using his grandparent’s tools, eventually selling his works to buy camera gear along with Zacharias Kunuk to start an Igloolik based production company known as Isuma Productions. Ungalaaq has acted and appeared in many films and television shows most notably starring as the lead Atanarjuat in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), which premiered at the Ca...Read more
Acting
(1994) Kabloonak
as Mukpullu
(2006) The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
as Nuqallaq
(2002) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
as Atanarjuat
(2022) Ski-Doo
as Casey
(2013) The Legend of Sarila
as Ukpik (voice)
(2022) Slash/Back
as Fisherman
(2011) That Which Once Was
as Siku
(2016) Iqaluit
as Noah
(2013) Maïna
as Tadlo
(2004) Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) The Necessities of Life
as Tiivii
(2019) The Grizzlies
as Pete
(1994) Trial at Fortitude Bay
as Tommy
(2021) The North Water
as Elder Inuk