Tantoo Cardinal

Tantoo Cardinal is an award-winning actress of Indigenous descent. A trail blazing Actress who has appeared in over 130 film and television projects over the course of her 50-year career. A multi award winning performer, including the Earle Grey Award (a lifetime achievement award by the Canadian Screen Awards), is a Member of the Order of Canada, a CBC/Playback Hall of Fame inductee, recipient of the Governor General's Artistic Lifetime Achievement Award, has a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame along with Honorary Doctorates from 5 Universities.

Film work includes work alongside Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s award winning feature, Killers of the Flower Moon . Film credits include: Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Falls Around Her, Wind River, The Grizzlies, Where The Rivers Flow North, Maina, Chasing Shakespeare and Eden.

TV series work includes playing Sue Lynn Blackbird in the ABC Television Network series Stumptown . Or opposite Alfred Molina in the series 3 Pines on Amazon (produced by the same producers of The Crown), the Marvel series, Echo , on Disney + and Hulu and she just wrapped the final season of Avatar: Last of the Air Benders.

Television credits include: SEE, Westworld, Longmire, Mohawk Girls, Frontier, Blackstone, Lonesome Dove, Nobody’s Girls, Godless and Penny Dreadful among others.

Theatre work includes playing "Gertrude in Hamlet," Regan in the production of "King Lear" and the role of Pelajia in a production of "The Rez Sisters”. She was Awarded the Theatre Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on “The Inheritance” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.