Acting • AGE 75
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...


Wildwood
(voice)
2026

The American Revolution
(voice)
2025

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
Self
2025

Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Auntie (voice)
2024

An Ode for Leviticus
Luna
2024

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
Self - Chula
2024

Echo
Chula Battiest
2024

Killers of the Flower Moon
Lizzie Q
2023

The American Buffalo
(voice)
2023

Three Pines
Bea Mayer
2022

The Last Manhunt
Ticup
2022

Wendell & Wild
Ms. Hunter (voice)
2022

ONI: Thunder God's Tale
Principal (voice)
2022

Spirit Rangers
Moon (voice)
2022

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
Marie Chalifoux (voice)
2022

However Wide the Sky: Places of Power
Self - Narrator
2021

Back Home Again
Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
2021

Tantoo Cardinal
self
2021

The Corruption of Divine Providence
Juniper Fairweather
2020

See
The Dreamer
2019

Red Snow
Grandmother Ruth
2019

Stumptown
Sue Lynn Blackbird
2019

The Grizzlies
Janace
2019

Through Black Spruce
Mary-Lou
2019

Abandoned: Angelique's Isle
Green Thunderbird Woman
2018

New Amsterdam
Jane Munsee
2018

Hold the Dark
Illanaq
2018

Falls Around Her
Mary Birchbark
2018

Corner Gas Animated
Real Estate Agent (voice)
2018

The Great Northern Candy Drop
Narrator / Louisa (voice)
2017

Godless
Iyovi
2017

Wind River
Alice Crowheart
2017

Cardinal
Nookomis
2017

Frontier
Kamenna
2016

Westworld
Ehawee
2016

Bull
Chief Tsosie
2016

ARQ
The Pope
2016

On the Farm
Ada Taylor
2016

Hope Bridge
Lana
2015

Mohawk Girls
Zoe’s Mom
2014

Strange Empire
Pichette
2014

Outlander
Adawehi
2014

Penny Dreadful
Old Native American Woman
2014

Rez Carz
(voice)
2014

Chasing Shakespeare
Older Venus
2014

Down Here
Stella Mitchell
2014

Maïna
Tekahera
2013

Eden
The Nurse
2013

Longmire
Marilyn Yarlott
2012

Arctic Air
Aunt Mary
2012

The Killing
Hooker
2011

Blackstone
Wilma Stoney
2011

Fathers & Sons
Gordon’s Sister
2010

Shattered
Carol
2010

Changing Climates, Changing Times
Grace Lajoie
2009

Mothers & Daughters
Celine
2008

Dear Prudence
Ruth Vigil
2008

Mom, Dad and Her
Heather
2008

Older Than America
Auntie Apple
2008

The Englishman's Boy
Little Soldier's Wife
2008

The Guard
Ursula
2008

Luna: Spirit of the Whale
Gloria Maquinna
2007

The Road to Christmas
Sioux Woman
2006

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
Iba Beauvais
2006

Unnatural & Accidental
Aunt Shadie / Rita
2006

H2O
Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004

H2O
Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
2004

A Thief Of Time
Irene Musket
2004

Dreamkeeper
Old Pawnee Woman
2003

Dreamkeeper
Old Pawnee Woman
2003

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
Self
2003

Edge of Madness
Ruth
2002

MythQuest
Walloha
2001

In the Light of Reverence
Narrator (voice)
2001

The Lost Child
Aunt Mary
2000

Canada: A People's History
Plains Storyteller
2000

The Hi-Line
Singing Bird
2000

Navigating the Heart
Mary
2000

A Stranger in the Kingdom
Heaven Fontaine
1999

Family Law
Mrs. Grant
1999

Smoke Signals
Arlene Joseph
1998

Heartwood
Violet Boucher
1998

Big Bear
Running Second
1998

Cold Squad
Theresa Sandiman
1998

Honey Moccasin
Honey Moccasin
1998

The Education of Little Tree
Nonna
1997

Grand Avenue
Nellie
1996

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
1995

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
Turtle Mother
1995

Legends of the Fall
Pet
1994

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Mary's Mother
1994

Sioux City
Dawn Rainfeather
1994

Silent Tongue
Silent Tongue
1994

Harts of the West
Helen
1993

Spirit Rider
Marilyn St. Claire
1993

Where the Rivers Flow North
Bangor
1993

Mustard Bath
Sister Amantha
1993

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Snow Bird
1993

North of 60
Betty Moses
1992

Black Robe
Chomina's Wife
1991

The Lightning Incident
Vivian
1991

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
Herself
1990

Dances with Wolves
Black Shawl
1990

Divided Loyalties
Molly Brant
1990

War Party
Sonny's Mother
1988

Candy Mountain
Annie
1988

Loyalties
Rosanne Ladouceur
1987

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
Little Doe
1987

Street Legal
Renee Stonehouse
1987

The Campbells
Maria Brant
1986

Places Not Our Own
Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
1986

Running Brave
Caroline
1983

Death Hunt
Indian Woman
1981

Marie Ann
Tantou, Indian princess
1978

For the Record
1976

The Oscars
Self
1953

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Aunt Mary
1951