Tantoo Cardinal
Popularity:0.622
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1950-07-20
Place of Birth:Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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Also Known As:Tantoo Martin, Tantoo Martin-Cardinal, تانتو کاردینال

Dances with Wolves (1990)
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a...

Legends of the Fall (1994)
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the...

Smoke Signals (1998)
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His...

Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been...

Back Home Again (2021)
An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.

Black Robe (1991)
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...

Changing Climates, Changing Times (2009)
Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's...

Rez Carz (2014)
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their bodies.

Running Brave (1983)
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.

Dreamkeeper (2003)
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take...

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987)
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12...

Eden (2013)
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns...

Tantoo Cardinal (1970)
A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she’s played, capturing her strength and her...

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995)
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the...

Wendell & Wild (2022)
Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what...

Silent Tongue (1993)
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't...

The Hi-Line (2000)
A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.

Places Not Our Own (1986)
By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. The Métis became...

Divided Loyalties (1990)
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution,...

A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he shows up, to find that he is black.

Dodson's Journey (2001)
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.

A Thief Of Time (2004)
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.

H2O (2004)
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and...

The Road to Christmas (2006)
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way to her dream Christmas-time wedding in Aspen....

Fathers & Sons (2010)
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

Every Emotion Costs (2010)
An exploration of the reality of returning home on the reserve to face family, community and death.

Chasing Shakespeare (2014)
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.

The Lightning Incident (1991)
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.

The Last Manhunt (2022)
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President...

The Lost Child (2000)
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of...

Older Than America (2008)
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young...

Navigating the Heart (2000)
When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she...

Wildwood (1970)
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But...

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the...

Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

Mom, Dad and Her (2008)
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends...

Loyalties (1987)
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives...

Luna: Spirit of the Whale (2007)
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry...

Dear Prudence (2008)
Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss Jeffrey Symcox, to a secluded lodge in Tassajero,...

Mothers & Daughters (2008)
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and...

Marie Ann (1978)
A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo (2024)
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness how the production took unprecedented steps...

Down Here (2014)
When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, he struggles to escape the haunting...

Spirit Rider (1993)
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant....

Grand Avenue (1996)
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own,...

Edge of Madness (2002)
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station,...

Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West (1995)
Real stories of five women of the Old West....

War Party (1988)
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't...

Hope Bridge (2015)
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.

In the Light of Reverence (2001)
This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places considered sacred by Native Americans: Devils Tower in...

Sioux City (1994)
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this...

Shouting Secrets (2011)
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once...

On the Farm (2016)
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to...

Mustard Bath (1993)
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after...

Wind River (2017)
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Heartwood (1998)
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner...

Candy Mountain (1988)
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Maïna (2013)
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of...

Through Black Spruce (2019)
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

The Grizzlies (2019)
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are...

Falls Around Her (2018)
A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not...

Hold the Dark (2018)
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

The Great Northern Candy Drop (2017)
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.

Big Bear (1998)
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.

Death Hunt (1981)
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a...

Red Snow (2019)
Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi,...

Postmark Paradise (2000)
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The...

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic (2003)
A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details,...

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' (1990)
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.

ARQ (2016)
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle...

Honey Moccasin (1998)
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the...

How the Fiddle Flows (2002)
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to...

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel...

The Corruption of Divine Providence (2020)
16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and her forehead bleeding as if from a thorny crown....

Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges (1995)
Tantoo Cardinal stars as Alive, the mother of Jack and Samantha. Her children are learning about their past and, in particular, the Treaty land...

Inkwo for When the Starving Return (2024)
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their...

An Ode for Leviticus (2024)
A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape.

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood (2025)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Tom Stone (2002)
Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on CBC Television for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series...

Family Law (1999)
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their...

The Guard (2008)
This one hour drama follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. The crew of the MLB Cape Pacific is lead by Captain Miro...

Corner Gas Animated (2018)
It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on in Dog River, 40 kilometres from nowhere. But that's all about to change.

The Englishman's Boy (2008)
Haunting Film recalls a tragic journey that culminates in one of the most brutal historical events in Canadian history - the Cypress Hills Massacre

Three Pines (2022)
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the seemingly idyllic village of Three Pines and uncover...

Canada: A People's History (2000)
The complete landmark documentary series follows events from pre-history to 1990. Charting the country's past, this series chronicles the rise and...

MythQuest (2001)
While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos,...

Cold Squad (1998)
Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver...

The Campbells (1986)
The Campbells was a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, which aired on Scottish Television and CTV from 1986 to 1990. A historical family...

Street Legal (1987)
The professional and private lives of a group of young, aggressive attorneys in partnership together in a small downtown Toronto law firm. However...

North of 60 (1992)
North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest. It first aired on CBC Television in...

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

Harts of the West (1993)
Harts of the West is an American Western/comedy–drama series starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, set on a dude ranch in...

Strange Empire (2014)
Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, “Strange Empire” is a Western whose heroes are women. With most of their men gone, and those...

The Killing (2011)
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series...

Shattered (2010)
Shattered is a Canadian police procedural series. The main character is a tough, smart homicide detective in Vancouver who suffers from dissociative...

Penny Dreadful (2014)
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in...

Mohawk Girls (2014)
Four young women are figuring out how to be Mohawk in the 21st century, to find their place in the world and, of course, try to find love. But in a...

Cardinal (2017)
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head...

Frontier (2016)
The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple...

Arctic Air (2012)
Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush...

Spirit Rangers (2022)
Native American siblings Kodi, Summer and Eddy have a secret: They’re "Spirit Rangers" who help protect the national park they call home!

Blackstone (2011)
The lives of Indians on the Blackstone Indian reserve, told from an Aboriginal point of view.

New Amsterdam (2018)
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and...

Outlander (2014)
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an...

H2O (2004)
H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope,...

Echo (2024)
Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.

Godless (2017)
A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

For The Record (1977)
For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired...

Westworld (2016)
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined...

The American Buffalo (2023)
The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of...

Bull (2016)
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

Stumptown (2019)
Dex Parios is a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. With a complicated personal...

Moccasin Flats (2003)
This series has been aired on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and Showcase Television since 2004. It takes place in Moccasin Flats, Regina,...

See (2019)
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father...

ONI: Thunder God's Tale (2022)
In a mystical world of Japanese gods and spirits, a courageous girl strives to follow in her mysterious father's footsteps and find her true powers.

Longmire (2012)
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels...

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006)
Fictionalized portrayal of the conflict and standoff in Kanehsatake during the summer of 1990. This major conflict between a Mohawk community and...