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Acting

Tantoo Cardinal

Career: Active from 1978 to 2024, busiest in 2008 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 34
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: The American Buffalo
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 66 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Tantoo Cardinal Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.2, average 2.4
Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 6
Historical Drama 6
Cultural Identity 5
Canadian History 5
Character-Driven 4
Contemporary Realism 4
Coming-of-Age 4
Social Justice 3
Emotional Journey 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Mystery 2
Bleak 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

121

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

17 titles · average score 71

Wildwood

90

as Iphigenia (voice)

Below

68

TV show · as Anik

The American Revolution

76

TV show · as (voice)

Echo

60

TV show · as Chula Battiest

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

as Auntie (voice)

Killers of the Flower Moon

83

as Lizzie Q

The American Buffalo

86

TV show · as (voice)

Three Pines

69

TV show · as Bea Mayer

Wendell & Wild

69

as Ms. Hunter (voice)

The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib

63

TV show · as Marie Chalifoux (voice)

Spirit Rangers

69

TV show · as Moon (voice)

The Corruption of Divine Providence

as Juniper Fairweather

2010s

37 titles · average score 67

Stumptown

78

TV show · as Sue Lynn Blackbird

Red Snow

50

as Grandmother Ruth

Abandoned: Angelique's Isle

61

as Green Thunderbird Woman

Hold the Dark

58

as Illanaq

Falls Around Her

84

as Mary Birchbark

Godless

79

TV show · as Iyovi

ARQ

52

as The Pope

Westworld

77

TV show · as Ehawee

Down Here

as Stella Mitchell

Outlander

82

TV show · as Adawehi

Eden

71

as The Nurse

Every Emotion Costs

as Aunt Marcy

2000s

28 titles · average score 62

Changing Climates, Changing Times

as Grace Lajoie

Older Than America

48

as Auntie Apple

Mothers & Daughters

as Celine

Mom, Dad and Her

51

as Heather

The Englishman's Boy

TV show · as Little Soldier's Wife

Luna: Spirit of the Whale

62

as Gloria Maquinna

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

TV show · as Iba Beauvais

Unnatural & Accidental

48

as Aunt Shadie / Rita

TV show · as Betty

In the Light of Reverence

as Narrator (voice)

The Hi-Line

57

as Singing Bird

Postmark Paradise

as Reenie

1990s

27 titles · average score 67

Smoke Signals

77

as Arlene Joseph

Big Bear

as Running Second

Honey Moccasin

as Honey Moccasin

The Education of Little Tree

66

as Nonna

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

64

as Turtle Mother

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

73

as Mary's Mother

Silent Tongue

43

as Silent Tongue

Where the Rivers Flow North

83

as Bangor

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

74

TV show · as Snow Bird

Black Robe

81

as Chomina's Wife

The Lightning Incident

as Vivian

Dances with Wolves

80

as Black Shawl

1980s

9 titles · average score 58

War Party

33

as Sonny's Mother

Candy Mountain

66

as Annie

Loyalties

as Rosanne Ladouceur

Street Legal

72

TV show · as Renee Stonehouse

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

66

as Little Doe

Places Not Our Own

as Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal)

The Campbells

TV show · as Maria Brant

Running Brave

64

as Caroline

Death Hunt

48

as Indian Woman

1970s

2 titles

Marie Ann

as Tantou, Indian princess

For the Record

TV show

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Aunt Mary