Tantoo Cardinal

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Tantoo Cardinal CM (born July 20, 1950) is a Canadian actress. Of Cree and Métis heritage, 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."<ref name=":0" />

Early life

Tantoo<ref name= CanEncyc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cardinal was born the youngest of three children to Julia Cardinal, a woman of Cree and Métis descent, and a white father.

Cardinal was raised in the hamlet of Anzac, Alberta. The lack of electricity inspired her to use her imagination while playing in the bush. Her grandmother nicknamed her "Tantoo" after the insect repellent they used while picking blueberries together. She taught Cardinal the Cree language, the traditional ways of their culture and the difficulties she would face growing up Métis in Canada. Cardinal has said that it was walking behind her grandmother where she first learned to act.<ref name= CanEncyc /><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

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Cardinal in 2001

Cardinal has played roles in many notable films and television series, including Spirit Bay, Loyalties, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Legends of the Fall, Smoke Signals, Hold the Dark and North of 60. She was cast in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series By Way of the Stars with Gordon Tootoosis as the Cree Chief and Eric Schweig as Black Thunder.

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".<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Cardinal's Hand print on the Aboriginal Walk of Honour in Canada

On August 23, 2011, Cardinal, Margot Kidder, and dozens of others were arrested while protesting the proposed extension of the Keystone Pipeline.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2012, Cardinal portrayed Regan in an all-aboriginal production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside a cast that also included August Schellenberg as Lear, Billy Merasty as Gloucester, Jani Lauzon in a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool, and Craig Lauzon as Kent.<ref name=aboriginal>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>

She played Marilyn Yarlott for three seasons as a recurring cast member in the Netflix series Longmire, a Crow hunter and medicine woman who lives alone in the vast wilderness of the Crow reservation.

In 2017 she was named the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement.<ref>"Tantoo Cardinal among those getting special Canadian Screen Awards" Template:Webarchive. The Guardian, January 12, 2016.</ref> She has also won a Gemini Award, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now Indspire Award) and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.<ref name= CanEncyc/>

In the 2018 film The Grizzlies, she plays a high school principal who is skeptical that a first-time teacher can address social issues in the northwestern Nunavut community of Kugluktuk.

On November 26, 2021, Cardinal and several other laureates received the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards after a nearly two-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>"Tantoo Cardinal, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Hara receive their Governor General's awards" Template:Webarchive. CBC News, November 27, 2021.</ref>

Personal life

Cardinal met her first husband, Fred Martin, while boarding at his family's home during her high school years in Edmonton. They were married from 1968 to 1978 and had a son, Cheyenne, prior to their divorce.

She had her second son, Clifford, with Beaver Richards.

From 1988 to 2000, Cardinal was married to actor John Lawlor, with whom she had a daughter, Riel.<ref name= CanEncyc />

Filmography

Key

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Marie-Anne	Tantou
1981	Death Hunt	Indian Woman
1983	Running Brave	Caroline
1986	Places Not Our Own	Rose
	Loyalties	Rosanne Ladouceur	Nominated - Genie Award for Best Actress
1987	Candy Mountain	Annie
1988	War Party	Sonny's mother
1990	Divided Loyalties	Molly Brant
	Dances With Wolves	Black Shawl
1991	Black Robe	Chomina's Wife
1993	Silent Tongue	Silent Tongue
	Where the Rivers Flow North	Bangor
	Mustard Bath	Sister Amantha
1994	Sioux City	Dawn Rainfeather
	Legends of the Fall	Pet Decker
1997	Template:Sortname	Granma
	Silence	Dolores
1998	Honey Moccasin	Honey Moccasin
	Smoke Signals	Arlene Joseph
	Heartwood	Violet Boucher
1999	Template:Sortname	Singing Bird
	Template:Sortname	Heaven Fontaine
2000	Postmark Paradise	Reenie
	Blood River	Claire / Mattie	Short
2002	Edge of Madness	Ruth
2004	Memory	Ida	Short
2006	Unnatural & Accidental	Aunt Shadie / Rita
2008	Older than America	Auntie Apple
	Ancestor Eyes	Verna	Short
	Mothers & Daughters	Celine
2010	Every Emotion Costs	Aunt Marcy
2011	Shouting Secrets	June
2012	Eden	The Nurse
2013	From Above	Older Venus
	Maïna	Tekahera
2014	Down Here	Stella Mitchell
2015	Hope Bridge	Lana
2016	ARQ	The Pope
2017	Wind River	Alice Crowheart
2018	Falls Around Her	Mary Birchbark
	The Grizzlies	Janice
	Through Black Spruce	Mary-Lou
	Hold the Dark	Illanaq
	Angelique's Isle	Thunderbird Woman	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	Red Snow	Ruth	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	The Corruption of Divine Providence	Juniper Fairweather	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Wendell & Wild	Miss Hunter (voice)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Last Manhunt	Ticup	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Lizzie Q	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2024	Inkwo for When the Starving Return	Auntie
2026	Wildwood Template:Dagger	Carol Grod (voice)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	SCTV	extra	Episode 4/2-2 "Power Play"<ref>4/2 - 2 I'm Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, and no Guy's Gonna Tell Me It Ain't with The Plasmatics, Airdate: 23 October 1981</ref>
1984	Spirit Bay	Annie	Main role
1987	Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge	Little Doe	Television film
1990	Template:Sortname	Maria Brant	Episode: "Miles to Go"
1991	Lightning Field	Vivian	Television film
1992	Street Legal	Renee Stonehouse	Recurring role; 4 episodes
1992–93	By Way of the Stars	Franois	Television mini-series
1993	Harts of the West	Helen	Episode: "Auggie's End"
	Spirit Rider	Marilyn St. Claire	Television film
1993–95	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Snow Bird	Recurring role; 7 episodes
1994–97	North of 60	Betty Moses	Recurring role; 7 episodes
1995	500 Nations	(voice)	Television mini-series
	Tecumseh: The Last Warrior	Turtle Mother	Television film
1996	Grand Avenue	Nellie	Television film
1998	Big Bear	Running Second	Television mini-series
	Cold Squad	Theresa Sandiman	Episode: "Salty Cheever"
2000	Navigating the Heart	Mary	Television film
	Template:Sortname	Aunt Mary	Television film
2001	MythQuest	Walloha	Episode: "Red Wolf's Daughter"
2002	Tom Stone	Judge Crowfoot	Episode: "Royalty"
2003–06	Moccasin Flats	Betty Merasty	Recurring role; 22 episodes
2004	Windy Acres	Aunt Laura	Recurring role; 7 episodes
	H2O	Grand Chief Katie Blackfire	Guest role; 2 episodes
	Template:Sortname	Irene Musket	Television film
2006	Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis	Iba Beauvais	4 episodes
2007	Luna: Spirit of the Whale	Gloria Maquinna	Television film
2008	Template:Sortname	Ursula	recurring role; 4 episodes
	Just Breathe	Heather	Television film
	Changing Climates, Changing Times	Grace Lajoie	Television film
2009	Tales of an Urban Indian	Dianne	Television film
	Dear Prudence	Ruth Vigil	Television film
2010	Shattered	Carol	Guest role; 2 episodes
2012	The Killing	Prostitute	Episode: "Keylela"
2012–15	Blackstone	Wilma Stoney	Recurring role; 18 episodes
2013	Arctic Air	Aunt Mary	Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet"
2014	Strange Empire	Pichette	Episode: "Lonely Hearts"
2014–16	Mohawk Girls	Zoe's Mom	Recurring role; 5 episodes
2015–17	Longmire	Marilyn Yarlott	Guest role; 4 episodes
2016	Frontier	Kamenna	Guest role; 2 episodes
	On the Farm	Ada Taylor	Television film
2017	The Great Northern Candy Drop	Louisa (voice)	citation	CitationClass=web }} A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.</ref>
	Godless	Iyovi	Miniseries; 7 episodes
2018	Outlander	Adawehi	Guest role; 2 episodes
2019	See	The Dreamer	Guest role; 4 episodes
2019–20	Stumptown	Sue Lynn Blackbird	Series regular
2020	New Amsterdam	Dr. Jane Munsee	Episode: "Radical"
2021	Corner Gas Animated	Julie Rouleau (voice)	Episode: "A Lot to be Desired"
2022–present	Spirit Rangers	Moon (voice)	Recurring role<ref name="btva" />
2022	Three Pines	Bea Mayer	Series regular<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2024	Echo	Chula	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Island of the Blue Dolphins	Narrator
2019	The Testaments
2019	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Narrator

Music videos

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	"Mehcinut" by Jeremy Dutcher

See also

• Notable Aboriginal people of Canada

External links

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