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 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.

Filmography

• 2026Wildwood — Iphigenia (voice)
• The American Revolution — (voice)
• 2024An Ode for Leviticus — Luna
• Echo — Chula Battiest
• 2024Inkwo for When the Starving Return — Auntie (voice)
• 2023Killers of the Flower Moon — Lizzie Q
• The American Buffalo — (voice)
• ONI: Thunder God's Tale — Principal (voice)
• Spirit Rangers — Moon (voice)
• The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib — Marie Chalifoux (voice)
• 2022The Last Manhunt — Ticup
• Three Pines — Bea Mayer
• 2022Wendell & Wild — Ms. Hunter (voice)
• 2021Back Home Again — Mrs. Grey Horns (voice)
• 2020Sisters Rising — Executive Producer
• 2020The Corruption of Divine Providence — Juniper Fairweather
• 2019Red Snow — Grandmother Ruth
• See — The Dreamer
• Stumptown — Sue Lynn Blackbird
• 2019The Grizzlies — Janace
• 2019Through Black Spruce — Mary-Lou
• 2018Abandoned: Angelique's Isle — Green Thunderbird Woman
• Corner Gas Animated — Real Estate Agent (voice)
• 2018Falls Around Her — Mary Birchbark
• 2018Hold the Dark — Illanaq
• New Amsterdam — Jane Munsee
• Cardinal — Nookomis
• Godless — Iyovi
• 2017The Great Northern Candy Drop — Narrator / Louisa (voice)
• 2017Wind River — Alice Crowheart
• 2016ARQ — The Pope
• Bull — Chief Tsosie
• Frontier — Kamenna
• 2016On the Farm — Ada Taylor
• Westworld — Ehawee
• 2015Hope Bridge — Lana
• 2014Chasing Shakespeare — Older Venus
• 2014Down Here — Stella Mitchell
• Mohawk Girls — Zoe’s Mom
• Outlander — Adawehi
• Penny Dreadful — Old Native American Woman
• 2014Rez Carz — (voice)
• Strange Empire — Pichette
• 2013Eden — The Nurse
• 2013Maïna — Tekahera
• Arctic Air — Aunt Mary
• Longmire — Marilyn Yarlott
• Blackstone — Wilma Stoney
• 2011Shouting Secrets — June
• The Killing — Hooker
• 2010Every Emotion Costs — Aunt Marcy
• 2010Fathers & Sons — Gordon’s Sister
• Shattered — Carol
• 2009Changing Climates, Changing Times — Grace Lajoie
• 2008Dear Prudence — Ruth Vigil
• 2008Mom, Dad and Her — Heather
• 2008Mothers & Daughters — Celine
• 2008Older Than America — Auntie Apple
• The Englishman's Boy — Little Soldier's Wife
• The Guard — Ursula
• 2007Luna: Spirit of the Whale — Gloria Maquinna
• Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis — Iba Beauvais
• 2006The Road to Christmas — Sioux Woman
• 2006Unnatural & Accidental — Aunt Shadie / Rita
• 2004A Thief Of Time — Irene Musket
• 2004H2O — Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
• H2O — Grand Chief Katie Blackfire
• 2003Dreamkeeper — Old Pawnee Woman
• Dreamkeeper — Old Pawnee Woman
• Moccasin Flats — Betty
• 2002Edge of Madness — Ruth
• 2002How the Fiddle Flows — Narrator (voice)
• Tom Stone — Judge Crowfoot
• 2001Dodson's Journey — Waitress
• 2001In the Light of Reverence — Narrator (voice)
• MythQuest — Walloha
• Canada: A People's History — Plains Storyteller
• 2000Navigating the Heart — Mary
• 2000Postmark Paradise — Reenie
• 2000The Hi-Line — Singing Bird
• 2000The Lost Child — Aunt Mary
• 1999A Stranger in the Kingdom — Heaven Fontaine
• Family Law — Mrs. Grant
• 1998Big Bear — Running Second
• Cold Squad — Theresa Sandiman
• 1998Heartwood — Violet Boucher
• 1998Honey Moccasin — Honey Moccasin
• 1998Smoke Signals — Arlene Joseph
• 1997The Education of Little Tree — Nonna
• 1996Grand Avenue — Nellie
• Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years — Gabe LaRoche’s Mother
• 1995Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West — Sarah Winnemucca
• 1995Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges — Alive
• 1995Tecumseh: The Last Warrior — Turtle Mother
• 1994Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee — Mary's Mother
• 1994Legends of the Fall — Pet
• 1994Silent Tongue — Silent Tongue
• 1994Sioux City — Dawn Rainfeather
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — Snow Bird
• Harts of the West — Helen
• 1993Mustard Bath — Sister Amantha
• 1993Spirit Rider — Marilyn St. Claire
• 1993Where the Rivers Flow North — Bangor
• North of 60 — Betty Moses
• 1991Black Robe — Chomina's Wife
• 1991The Lightning Incident — Vivian
• 1990Dances with Wolves — Black Shawl
• 1990Divided Loyalties — Molly Brant
• 1988Candy Mountain — Annie
• 1988War Party — Sonny's Mother
• 1987Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge — Little Doe
• 1987Loyalties — Rosanne Ladouceur
• Street Legal — Renee Stonehouse
• 1986Places Not Our Own — Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)
• The Campbells — Maria Brant
• 1983Running Brave — Caroline
• 1981Death Hunt — Indian Woman
• 1978Marie Ann — Tantou, Indian princess
• For the Record
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Aunt Mary

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2025Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood — Self
• 2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo — Self - Chula
• 2021However Wide the Sky: Places of Power — Self - Narrator
• 2021Tantoo Cardinal — self
• 2003Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic — Self
• 1990The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' — Herself
• The Oscars — Self