Tantoo Cardinal
Known for: Acting
Born: July 20, 1950
Place of birth: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Tantoo Cardinal CM is an Aboriginal 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.
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Filmography
82 movies · 45 TV shows, newest first
NR
Wildwood
2026
5.9
The American Revolution
2025
7.5
Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood
2025
4.0
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
2024
NR
An Ode for Leviticus
2024
5.8
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024
6.0
Echo
2024
7.4
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
7.4
The American Buffalo
2023
6.5
Three Pines
2022
5.8
The Last Manhunt
2022
6.6
Wendell & Wild
2022
7.6
ONI: Thunder God's Tale
2022
6.8
Spirit Rangers
2022
7.4
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
2022
NR
However Wide the Sky: Places of Power
2021
7.0
Back Home Again
2021
NR
Tantoo Cardinal
2021
7.0
The Corruption of Divine Providence
20208.0
Sisters Rising
2020
8.1
See
2019
5.3
Red Snow
2019
7.2
Stumptown
2019
7.2
The Grizzlies
2019
5.2
Through Black Spruce
2019
6.2
Abandoned: Angelique's Isle
2018
8.3
New Amsterdam
2018
5.5
Hold the Dark
2018
7.5
Falls Around Her
2018
6.9
Corner Gas Animated
2018
6.0
The Great Northern Candy Drop
2017
7.7
Godless
2017
7.4
Wind River
2017
6.9
Cardinal
2017
6.8
Frontier
2016
8.0
Westworld
2016
7.1
Bull
2016
6.1
ARQ
2016
5.0
On the Farm
2016
4.9
Hope Bridge
2015
4.8
Mohawk Girls
2014
5.0
Strange Empire
2014
8.2
Outlander
2014
7.8
Penny Dreadful
2014
NR
Rez Carz
2014
3.1
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
5.2
Down Here
2014
6.4
Maïna
2013
6.5
Eden
2013
7.7
Longmire
2012
6.3
Arctic Air
20129.0
Shouting Secrets
2011
7.8
The Killing
2011
7.0
Blackstone
2011
2.7
Fathers & Sons
2010
5.2
Shattered
2010
NR
Every Emotion Costs
2010
6.4
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
1.0
Mothers & Daughters
2008
6.5
Dear Prudence
2008
4.5
Mom, Dad and Her
2008
4.4
Older Than America
2008
3.3
The Englishman's Boy
2008
7.7
The Guard
2008
6.2
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
2007
5.7
The Road to Christmas
2006
7.0
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
2006
4.4
Unnatural & Accidental
2006
5.3
H2O
2004
9.0
H2O
2004
6.0
A Thief Of Time
2004
6.7
Dreamkeeper
2003
7.5
Dreamkeeper
200310.0
Moccasin Flats
2003
8.0
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
200310.0
How the Fiddle Flows
2002
5.6
Edge of Madness
20028.0
Tom Stone
2002
7.2
MythQuest
2001
NR
In the Light of Reverence
20014.6
Dodson's Journey
2001
7.1
The Lost Child
2000
8.8
Canada: A People's History
2000
5.5
The Hi-Line
20009.0
Postmark Paradise
2000
7.0
Navigating the Heart
2000
3.5
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999
8.1
Family Law
1999
6.8
Smoke Signals
1998
3.8
Heartwood
1998
9.0
Big Bear
1998
7.1
Cold Squad
1998
4.0
Honey Moccasin
1998
6.6
The Education of Little Tree
1997
8.0
Grand Avenue
1996
6.1
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995
6.8
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior
19959.0
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995NR
Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges
1995
7.4
Legends of the Fall
1994
6.7
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994
5.0
Sioux City
1994
4.7
Silent Tongue
1994
6.8
Harts of the West
1993
7.0
Spirit Rider
1993
6.4
Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
7.0
Mustard Bath
1993
7.6
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
6.0
North of 60
1992
6.5
Black Robe
1991
5.5
The Lightning Incident
1991
7.0
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990
7.8
Dances with Wolves
1990
8.0
Divided Loyalties
1990
6.4
War Party
1988
6.1
Candy Mountain
1988
6.7
Loyalties
1987
6.5
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987
7.3
Street Legal
1987
6.0
The Campbells
1986
6.0
Places Not Our Own
1986
4.3
Running Brave
1983
6.7
Death Hunt
1981
8.0
Marie Ann
1978
9.0
For the Record
1976
7.0
The Oscars
1953
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951