Tantoo Cardinal
Birthday: 1950-07-20
Place of Birth: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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 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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Dances with Wolves
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
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Legends of the Fall
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...
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Smoke Signals
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...
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Unnatural & Accidental
Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her moth...
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Back Home Again
An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,00...
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Black Robe
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Cath...
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Changing Climates, Changing Times
Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be drama...
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Rez Carz
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their ...
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Running Brave
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long ...
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Dreamkeeper
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is...
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in...
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Eden
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. W...
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Tantoo Cardinal
A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’...
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Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the i...
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Wendell & Wild
Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and ...
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Silent Tongue
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside...
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The Hi-Line
A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then i...
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Places Not Our Own
By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads...
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Divided Loyalties
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks. During the time of the American Revolution, Britain fac...
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Dodson's Journey
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father...
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A Thief Of Time
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from ...
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H2O
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office a...
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A Stranger in the Kingdom
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he s...
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The Road to Christmas
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way...
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Every Emotion Costs
An exploration of the reality of returning home on the reserve to face family, community and death....
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Fathers & Sons
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers...
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Chasing Shakespeare
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself....
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The Lightning Incident
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities ...
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The Last Manhunt
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a ...
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The Lost Child
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out ...
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Older Than America
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visio...
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Navigating the Heart
When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write ...
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Wildwood
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even sup...
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the prot...
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Loyalties
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern...
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Mom, Dad and Her
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol ...
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Luna: Spirit of the Whale
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod ...
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Where the Rivers Flow North
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and ...
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The Education of Little Tree
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents...
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Dear Prudence
Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss J...
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Mothers & Daughters
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers....
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness ...
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Down Here
When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's Downto...
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Spirit Rider
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the ...
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Grand Avenue
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her b...
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Edge of Madness
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives e...
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War Party
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are su...
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Hope Bridge
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope a...
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In the Light of Reverence
This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places considered ...
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Sioux City
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cu...
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Shouting Secrets
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native...
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On the Farm
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal j...
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Mustard Bath
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on recei...
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Wind River
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a N...
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Heartwood
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the ...
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Candy Mountain
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker....
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Maïna
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his...
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Through Black Spruce
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and send...
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The Grizzlies
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit s...
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Falls Around Her
A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover t...
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Hold the Dark
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soo...
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The Great Northern Candy Drop
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat ...
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Big Bear
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against...
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Death Hunt
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, ...
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Red Snow
Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic...
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Postmark Paradise
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking ...
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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It des...
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, ...
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ARQ
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may ...
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Honey Moccasin
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave...
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How the Fiddle Flows
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Eur...
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Killers of the Flower Moon
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...
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The Corruption of Divine Providence
16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and h...
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Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
Tantoo Cardinal stars as Alive, the mother of Jack and Samantha. Her children are learning about the...
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Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting war...
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An Ode for Leviticus
A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape....
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Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were la...
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