Tamara Podemski

Acting

Born October 16, 1977, Toronto, Canada

Tamara Podemski (born October 16, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress and writer. She is known for her supporting role as Alison Trent in the television series Coroner, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. Podemski was raised in Toronto where she attended Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. Her father is an Israeli Jew from Kfar Saba, and her mother is an Anishinaabe from the Muscowpetung band of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Her paternal grandparents were from Poland, and moved to Canada after World War II. Her sisters, Jennifer Podemski and Sarah Podemski are also actors. All three sisters appear together in the FX series Reservation Dogs.

Filmography

• 2026Blood Lines — Pehmee
• The Borderline — Erica Ross
• 2026Youngblood — Ms. Mcgill
• Murderbot — Bharadwaj
• Saint-Pierre — Natasha Bourge
• 2024Fancy Dance — Ricky
• 2024The Light Before the Sun — Amanda Wolf, Story, Producer
• Essex County — Joy
• Monster High — Coach Thunderbird (voice)
• Outer Range — Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk
• The Legend of Vox Machina — Uvenda (voice)
• Ghosts — Dr. Long
• Reservation Dogs — Teenie
• Unsettled — Tara Wasnoday
• 2020Guest of Honour — Detective Grove
• RUN — Babe Cloud
• Coroner — Alison Trent
• 2018Never Saw It Coming — Detective Rona Wedmore
• 2012The Lesser Blessed — Verna Sole
• New Amsterdam — Young Lenape Woman
• 2007Four Sheets to the Wind — Miri Smallhill
• Heartland — April
• Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis — Deborah 'Chicky' Etienne
• 2003Another Country: A North of 60 Mystery — Jane Crowe
• 2000Johnny Greyeyes — Rox
• The Rez — Lucy Pegahmagabow
• 1995Dance Me Outside — Little Margaret
• The Temple