Tantoo Cardinal
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4773 |
| Birthday | 1950-07-20 |
| Place of Birth | Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada |
| Also Known As | Tantoo Martin, Tantoo Martin-Cardinal, تانتو کاردینال, Tantoo Caroline Rose Cardinal, |
1990
Dances with Wolves
7.838/4660
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junct...
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Dances with Wolves
1994
Legends of the Fall
7.384/2833
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...
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Legends of the Fall
1998
Smoke Signals
6.787/115
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents...
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Smoke Signals
2006
Unnatural & Accidental
4.4/10
Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been missing....
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Unnatural & Accidental
2021
Back Home Again
7/1
An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.
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Back Home Again
1991
Black Robe
6.5/119
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...
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Black Robe
2009
Changing Climates, Changing Times
6.4/5
Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's atmosp...
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Changing Climates, Changing Times
2014
Rez Carz
0/0
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their bodies.
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Rez Carz
1983
Running Brave
4.318/11
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
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Running Brave
2003
Dreamkeeper
6.69/21
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take...
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Dreamkeeper
1987
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
6.5/18
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twe...
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
2013
Eden
6.5/230
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns int...
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Eden
2021
Tantoo Cardinal
0/0
A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’s played, capturing her strength and her impact—an...
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Tantoo Cardinal
1995
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
6.8/5
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee...
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Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
2022
Wendell & Wild
6.633/380
Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living.
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Wendell & Wild
1994
Silent Tongue
4.7/20
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bur...
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Silent Tongue
2000
The Hi-Line
5.5/10
A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.
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The Hi-Line
1986
Places Not Our Own
6/2
By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. The Métis became a forgotten pe...
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Places Not Our Own
1990
Divided Loyalties
8/1
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks. During the time of the American Revolution, Britain faces insurrection in its American colonies. The Iroq...
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Divided Loyalties
1999
A Stranger in the Kingdom
3.5/6
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he shows up, to find that he is black.
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A Stranger in the Kingdom
2001
Dodson's Journey
4.6/5
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
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Dodson's Journey
2004
A Thief Of Time
6/5
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
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A Thief Of Time
2004
H2O
5.25/4
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and co...
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H2O
2006
The Road to Christmas
5.7/17
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way to her dream Christmas-time wedding in Aspen. Una...
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The Road to Christmas
2010
Fathers & Sons
2.7/3
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for th...
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Fathers & Sons
2010
Every Emotion Costs
0/0
An exploration of the reality of returning home on the reserve to face family, community and death.
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Every Emotion Costs
2014
Chasing Shakespeare
3.1/4
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.
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Chasing Shakespeare
1991
The Lightning Incident
5.5/4
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
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The Lightning Incident
2022
The Last Manhunt
5.824/85
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President...
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The Last Manhunt
2000
The Lost Child
6.643/7
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of...
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The Lost Child
2008
Older Than America
4.4/26
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young...
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Older Than America
2000
Navigating the Heart
7/6
When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she but...
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Navigating the Heart
2026
Wildwood
0/0
A girl’s desperate quest to save her baby brother unfolds into a spectacular, high-stakes adventure through a forbidden forest full of enchanted creat...
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Wildwood
1994
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
6.667/3
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the in...
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1993
Where the Rivers Flow North
6.429/7
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.
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Where the Rivers Flow North
2008
Mom, Dad and Her
4.5/6
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends...
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Mom, Dad and Her
1987
Loyalties
6.667/3
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives l...
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Loyalties
2007
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
6.2/4
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry lan...
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Luna: Spirit of the Whale
2008
Dear Prudence
6.5/4
Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss Jeffrey Symcox, to a secluded lodge in Tassajero, W...
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Dear Prudence
2008
Mothers & Daughters
1/1
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
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Mothers & Daughters
1997
The Education of Little Tree
6.6/30
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and gr...
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The Education of Little Tree
1978
Marie Ann
8/1
A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.
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Marie Ann
2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
5.8/10
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness how the production took unprecedented steps to por...
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2014
Down Here
5.2/5
When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, he struggles to escape the haunting m...
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Down Here
1993
Spirit Rider
7/3
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant....
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Spirit Rider
1996
Grand Avenue
8/2
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own,...
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Grand Avenue
2002
Edge of Madness
5.613/24
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claimi...
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Edge of Madness
1995
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
9/1
Real stories of five women of the Old West....
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Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1988
War Party
6.333/6
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't s...
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War Party
2015
Hope Bridge
5.3/7
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.
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Hope Bridge
2001
In the Light of Reverence
0/0
This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places considered sacred by Native Americans: Devils Tower in Wyomin...
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In the Light of Reverence
1994
Sioux City
4.955/11
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller...
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Sioux City
2011
Shouting Secrets
9/2
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once abo...
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Shouting Secrets
2016
On the Farm
5/5
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to m...
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On the Farm
1993
Mustard Bath
7/1
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after h...
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Mustard Bath
2017
Wind River
7.436/5745
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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Wind River
1998
Heartwood
3.833/6
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan...
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Heartwood
1988
Candy Mountain
6.077/13
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
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Candy Mountain
2013
Maïna
6.4/12
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of Ice." Fo...
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Maïna
2019
Through Black Spruce
5.2/33
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
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Through Black Spruce
2019
The Grizzlies
7.3/46
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are intro...
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The Grizzlies
2018
Falls Around Her
7.5/2
A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily le...
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Falls Around Her
2018
Hold the Dark
5.454/1038
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
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Hold the Dark
2017
The Great Northern Candy Drop
6/1
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.
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The Great Northern Candy Drop
1998
Big Bear
9/1
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Big Bear
1981
Death Hunt
6.622/201
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a...
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Death Hunt
2019
Red Snow
5.3/7
Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi, Afghanistan....
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Red Snow
2000
Postmark Paradise
9/1
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirt...
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Postmark Paradise
2003
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
8/4
A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scout...
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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
1990
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
7/3
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
2016
ARQ
6.122/1289
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle betwee...
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ARQ
1998
Honey Moccasin
4/1
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990...
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Honey Moccasin
2002
How the Fiddle Flows
10/1
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to the...
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How the Fiddle Flows
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
7.399/4088
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the myste...
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Killers of the Flower Moon
2020
The Corruption of Divine Providence
7/1
16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and her forehead bleeding as if from a thorny crown. Th...
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The Corruption of Divine Providence
1995
Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
0/0
Tantoo Cardinal stars as Alive, the mother of Jack and Samantha. Her children are learning about their past and, in particular, the Treaty land Entitl...
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Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
2024
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2/2
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Ink...
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Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2024
An Ode for Leviticus
0/0
A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape.
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An Ode for Leviticus
2025
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
7.3/3
For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusive...
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