Tantoo Cardinal being inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame

 

APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network)

Canadian Walk of Fame

December 12, 2023

 

Tantoo Cardinal is an award-winning actress of Indigenous descent whose recent feature, Scorsese’s newest project, Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at Cannes May 2023. The movie will be in theatres October 2023.  2023 will also see the premieres of her Marvel Series, Echo as well as her work on the Animated feature, Wendell and Wild.

Past work includes her series regular work on the ABC Television Network series Stumptown as well as on the Amazon series 3 Pines opposite Alfred Molina, produced by the same producers of The Crown.

Her credits include numerous plays, television programs, and feature films, including the features: 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. Television credits include: SEE, Westworld, Longmire, Mohawk Girls, Frontier, Blackstone, Lonesome Dove, Nobody’s Girls, Godless and Penny Dreadful among others. Highlights of her Theatre work include playing Margaret Avery in “The Inheritance”, Gertrude in “Hamlet,” Regan in “King Lear” and the role of Pelajia in a production of “The Rez Sisters.”

A Canadian native, she has appeared in over 130 Film, Television and Animation projects over the course of her 50-year career. 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 and a recipient of the 2020 Governor Generals Artistic Achievement Lifetime Achievement Award– Broadcasting and Film. She has Honorary Doctorates from 5 Universities.

Tantoo Cardinal’s Euro-westerns:

The Campbells (TV) – 1990 (Maria Brant)

By Way of the Stars (TV) – 1992-1993 (Franoise)

Silent Tongue – 1993 (Silent Tongue)

500 Nations (TV) – 1995 [voice]

DreamKeeper (TV) – 2003 (Old Pawnee Woman)

Wind River – 2016 (Alice Crowheart)

Outlander: Brave New World (TV) – 2017 (Adawehi)