Date of birth: 1950-07-20
Place of birth: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known 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 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.
1990-03-30
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar
1994-12-23
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,
1998-06-26
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling
2006-07-07
Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her moth
2021-10-28
An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,00
1991-10-04
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Cath
2009-02-04
Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be drama
2014-04-12
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their
1983-11-04
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long
2003-12-28
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is
1987-09-27
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in
2013-03-20
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. W
2021-06-05
A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’
1995-06-04
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the i
2022-10-21
Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon them
1993-01-28
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside
2000-05-05
A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then i
1986-01-01
By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads
1990-02-13
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nat
2001-01-10
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father
1999-11-23
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he s
2004-10-31
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office a
2004-07-11
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from
2010-10-01
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers
2006-12-17
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way
2010-01-01
An exploration of the reality of returning home on the reserve to face family, community and death.
2014-02-03
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.
1991-09-12
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities
2022-11-18
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a
2000-11-19
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out
2008-03-08
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visio
2000-02-14
When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even sup
1994-10-16
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the prot
1993-06-14
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and
2008-08-23
Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss J
2008-05-10
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol
2008-09-08
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
1987-11-20
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern
2007-05-13
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod
1997-12-25
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents
1978-08-02
A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.
2024-01-31
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness
2014-01-01
When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's Downto
1993-08-23
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the
1996-06-30
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her b
2002-03-01
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives e
1995-05-10
Real stories of five women of the Old West....
1988-09-15
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are su
2015-05-08
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope a
2001-02-17
This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places considered
1994-04-01
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cu
2011-11-10
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native
2016-07-26
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal j
1993-01-01
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on recei
2017-08-03
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a N
1998-04-19
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the
1988-01-20
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
2013-09-12
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his
2019-03-29
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and send
2019-04-19
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit s
2018-09-08
A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover t
2018-09-22
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soo
2017-12-17
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat
1998-02-09
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against
1981-04-15
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains,
2019-10-02
Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic
2000-03-03
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking
2003-05-20
A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It des
1990-11-15
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut,
2016-09-16
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may
1998-01-01
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave
2002-04-26
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Eur
2023-10-18
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one
2020-05-25
16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and h
1995-01-01
Tantoo Cardinal stars as Alive, the mother of Jack and Samantha. Her children are learning about the
2024-09-07
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting war
2024-02-10
A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape.
2025-02-04