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Tantoo Cardinal

Tantoo Cardinal

Highest Rated: 100% Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)

Lowest Rated: 0% War Party (1989)

Birthday: Jul 20, 1950

Birthplace: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Tantoo Cardinal turned her political activism into an acting career that has included roles as the knowing wife of the Medicine Man in "Dances With Wolves" (1990), the poignant childless companion of Rip Torn in "Where the Rivers Flow North" (1993) and the mother of Brad Pitt's wife in "Legends of the Fall" (1994).

Highest rated movies

100% Falls Around Her
100% Where the Rivers Flow North
93% Killers of the Flower Moon
92% Black Robe
90% Smoke Signals
87% The Grizzlies
87% Dances With Wolves
85% Eden

Photos

DANCES WITH WOLVES, Tantoo Cardinal, 1990 THE BLACK ROBE, Tantoo Cardinal 1991. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films MOTHERS&DAUGHTERS, from left: Tantoo Cardinal, Tinsel Korey, 2008. Ph: D. Wendy/©IFC Films UNNATURAL AND ACCIDENTAL, (aka UNNATURAL & ACCIDENTAL), Tantoo Cardinal (center), 2006. ©Odeon Films WHERE THE RIVERS FLOW NORTH, Tantoo Cardinal, 1993, (c)Caledonia Pictures SMOKE SIGNALS, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, 1998, (c)Miramax SMOKE SIGNALS, Monique Mojica, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, 1998 SILENT TONGUE, River Phoenix, Tantoo Cardinal, 1993 SMOKE SIGNALS, Tantoo Cardinal, 1998, (c)Miramax
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wildwood Unknown (Voice) - 2024
93% 84% Killers of the Flower Moon Lizzie Q (Character) $68.0M 2023
18% 86% The Last Manhunt Ticup (Character) - 2022
81% 64% Wendell & Wild Unknown (Voice) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Corruption of Divine Providence Juniper Fairweather (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sisters Rising Executive Producer - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Snow Grandmother Ruth (Character) - 2019
100% 67% Falls Around Her Mary Birchbark (Character) - 2018
87% 95% The Grizzlies Janace (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Through Black Spruce Mary-Lou (Character) - 2018
40% 83% Through Black Spruce Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pass System Narrator - 2015
No Score Yet 71% Hope Bridge Lana (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Down Here Stella Mitchell (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 75% Maïna Tekahera (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chasing Shakespeare Older Venus (Character) - 2013
85% 68% Eden The Nurse (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 83% Shouting Secrets June (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Every Emotion Costs Aunt Marcy (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walking on Turtle Island Lodge Wife (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 60% Mothers & Daughters Celine (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 48% Dear Prudence Ruth Vigil (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 48% Older Than America Auntie Apple (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 71% Mom, Dad and Her Heather (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Changing Climate, Changing Times Grace Lajoie (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ancestor Eyes Verna (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 61% Luna: Spirit of the Whale Gloria Maquinna (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spirit of Sacajawea Unknown (Voice) - 2007
No Score Yet 57% Unnatural & Accidental Aunt Shadie/Rita (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 71% A Thief of Time Irene Musket (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 80% Until the Violence Stops Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 45% A Wilderness Station Ruth (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 58% Dodson's Journey Waitress (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 59% Navigating the Heart Mary (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 40% Postmark Paradise Reenie (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 58% The Lost Child Aunt Mary (Character) - 2000
67% 27% The Hi-Line Singing Bird (Character) - 1999
90% 82% Smoke Signals Arlene Joseph (Character) $6.8M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Honey Moccasin Honey Moccasin (Character) - 1998
59% 75% The Education of Little Tree Granma (Character) $320.7K 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Silence Dolores (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 78% Grand Avenue Nellie (Character) - 1996
38% 46% Silent Tongue Silent Tongue (Character) - 1994
59% 87% Legends of the Fall Pet (Character) $63.2M 1994
No Score Yet 64% Spirit Rider Marilyn St.Claire (Character) - 1993
100% 75% Where the Rivers Flow North Bangor (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mustard Bath Sister Amantha (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet By Way of the Stars Franoise (Character) - 1992
92% 75% Black Robe Chomina's Wife (Character) $8.2M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lightning Incident Vivian (Character) - 1991
87% 87% Dances With Wolves Black Shawl (Character) $184.0M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Divided Loyalties Molly Brant (Character) - 1990
0% 77% War Party Sonny's Mother (Character) $299.3K 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Loyalties Rosanne Ladouceur (Character) $1.3K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anne Marie Tantoo (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marie-Anne Tantou (Character) - 1978

TV

Credit
70% 59% Echo Unknown (Character) 2024
100% 100% The American Buffalo Self 2023
100% 100% Oni: Thunder God's Tale Principal (Voice) 2022
No Score Yet 50% New Amsterdam Jane Munsee (Guest Star) 2021
93% 83% Stumptown Sue Lynn Blackbird (Character) 2019-2020
83% 85% Godless Iyovi (Character) 2017
88% 92% Longmire Crow Medicine Woman (Guest Star) 2015 2017
No Score Yet 61% Bull Chief Tsosie (Guest Star) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet DreamKeeper Old Pawnee Woman (Character) 2003