Tantoo Cardinal: movies and TV shows
Tantoo Cardinal has 127 credits in the archive: 82 films and 45 TV series, from 1951 to 2026. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2026 · busiest year: 2014 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wildwood | (voice) | Film | — | 75 |
| 2025 | The American Revolution | (voice) | TV | 5.9 | 74 |
| 2025 | Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2024 | Echo | Chula Battiest | TV | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2024 | An Ode for Leviticus | Luna | Film | — | 73 |
| 2024 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo | Self - Chula | Film | 5.8 | 73 |
| 2024 | Inkwo for When the Starving Return | Auntie (voice) | Film | 4.0 | 73 |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Lizzie Q | Film | 7.4 | 72 |
| 2023 | The American Buffalo | (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 72 |
| 2022 | Three Pines | Bea Mayer | TV | 6.5 | 71 |
| 2022 | Spirit Rangers | Moon (voice) | TV | 6.8 | 71 |
| 2022 | The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib | Marie Chalifoux (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2022 | ONI: Thunder God's Tale | Principal (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 71 |
| 2022 | Wendell & Wild | Ms. Hunter (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 71 |
| 2022 | The Last Manhunt | Ticup | Film | 5.8 | 71 |
| 2021 | Tantoo Cardinal | self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2021 | Back Home Again | Mrs. Grey Horns (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2021 | However Wide the Sky: Places of Power | Self - Narrator | Film | — | 70 |
| 2020 | Sisters Rising | Film | 8.0 | 69 | |
| 2020 | The Corruption of Divine Providence | Juniper Fairweather | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2019 | See | The Dreamer | TV | 8.1 | 68 |
| 2019 | Stumptown | Sue Lynn Blackbird | TV | 7.2 | 68 |
| 2019 | Through Black Spruce | Mary-Lou | Film | 5.2 | 68 |
| 2019 | The Grizzlies | Janace | Film | 7.2 | 68 |
| 2019 | Red Snow | Grandmother Ruth | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2018 | New Amsterdam | Jane Munsee | TV | 8.3 | 67 |
| 2018 | Corner Gas Animated | Real Estate Agent (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 67 |
| 2018 | Hold the Dark | Illanaq | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 2018 | Falls Around Her | Mary Birchbark | Film | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2018 | Abandoned: Angelique's Isle | Green Thunderbird Woman | Film | 6.2 | 67 |
| 2017 | Wind River | Alice Crowheart | Film | 7.4 | 66 |
| 2017 | Cardinal | Nookomis | TV | 6.9 | 66 |
| 2017 | Godless | Iyovi | TV | 7.8 | 66 |
| 2017 | The Great Northern Candy Drop | Narrator / Louisa (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2016 | Westworld | Ehawee | TV | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2016 | Bull | Chief Tsosie | TV | 7.1 | 65 |
| 2016 | Frontier | Kamenna | TV | 6.8 | 65 |
| 2016 | ARQ | The Pope | Film | 6.1 | 65 |
| 2016 | On the Farm | Ada Taylor | Film | 5.0 | 65 |
| 2015 | Hope Bridge | Lana | Film | 5.3 | 64 |
| 2014 | Outlander | Adawehi | TV | 8.2 | 63 |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | Old Native American Woman | TV | 7.8 | 63 |
| 2014 | Mohawk Girls | Zoe’s Mom | TV | 4.8 | 63 |
| 2014 | Strange Empire | Pichette | TV | 4.9 | 63 |
| 2014 | Rez Carz | (voice) | Film | — | 63 |
| 2014 | Down Here | Stella Mitchell | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 2014 | Chasing Shakespeare | Older Venus | Film | 3.1 | 63 |
| 2013 | Eden | The Nurse | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2013 | Maïna | Tekahera | Film | 6.4 | 62 |
| 2012 | Longmire | Marilyn Yarlott | TV | 7.7 | 61 |
| 2012 | Arctic Air | Aunt Mary | TV | 6.5 | 61 |
| 2011 | The Killing | Hooker | TV | 7.8 | 60 |
| 2011 | Blackstone | Wilma Stoney | TV | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2011 | Shouting Secrets | June | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 2010 | Shattered | Carol | TV | 5.2 | 59 |
| 2010 | Fathers & Sons | Gordon’s Sister | Film | 2.7 | 59 |
| 2010 | Every Emotion Costs | Aunt Marcy | Film | — | 59 |
| 2009 | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Grace Lajoie | Film | 6.4 | 58 |
| 2008 | The Guard | Ursula | TV | 7.7 | 57 |
| 2008 | Mom, Dad and Her | Heather | Film | 4.5 | 57 |
| 2008 | Mothers & Daughters | Celine | Film | 1.0 | 57 |
| 2008 | The Englishman's Boy | Little Soldier's Wife | TV | 3.2 | 57 |
| 2008 | Older Than America | Auntie Apple | Film | 4.4 | 57 |
| 2008 | Dear Prudence | Ruth Vigil | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2007 | Luna: Spirit of the Whale | Gloria Maquinna | Film | 6.2 | 56 |
| 2006 | The Road to Christmas | Sioux Woman | Film | 5.7 | 55 |
| 2006 | Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis | Iba Beauvais | TV | 7.0 | 55 |
| 2006 | Unnatural & Accidental | Aunt Shadie / Rita | Film | 4.4 | 55 |
| 2004 | H2O | Grand Chief Katie Blackfire | Film | 5.3 | 53 |
| 2004 | H2O | Grand Chief Katie Blackfire | TV | 9.0 | 53 |
| 2004 | A Thief Of Time | Irene Musket | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 2003 | Dreamkeeper | Old Pawnee Woman | Film | 6.7 | 52 |
| 2003 | Moccasin Flats | Betty | TV | 10.0 | 52 |
| 2003 | Dreamkeeper | Old Pawnee Woman | TV | 7.5 | 52 |
| 2003 | Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic | Self | Film | 8.0 | 52 |
| 2002 | Tom Stone | Judge Crowfoot | TV | 8.0 | 51 |
| 2002 | Edge of Madness | Ruth | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 2002 | How the Fiddle Flows | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 2001 | MythQuest | Walloha | TV | 7.2 | 50 |
| 2001 | Dodson's Journey | Waitress | Film | 4.6 | 50 |
| 2001 | In the Light of Reverence | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 50 |
| 2000 | Canada: A People's History | Plains Storyteller | TV | 9.8 | 49 |
| 2000 | Postmark Paradise | Reenie | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 2000 | Navigating the Heart | Mary | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2000 | The Hi-Line | Singing Bird | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 2000 | The Lost Child | Aunt Mary | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1999 | Family Law | Mrs. Grant | TV | 8.1 | 48 |
| 1999 | A Stranger in the Kingdom | Heaven Fontaine | Film | 3.5 | 48 |
| 1998 | Cold Squad | Theresa Sandiman | TV | 7.1 | 47 |
| 1998 | Honey Moccasin | Honey Moccasin | Film | 4.0 | 47 |
| 1998 | Smoke Signals | Arlene Joseph | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1998 | Heartwood | Violet Boucher | Film | 3.8 | 47 |
| 1998 | Big Bear | Running Second | Film | 9.0 | 47 |
| 1997 | The Education of Little Tree | Nonna | Film | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1996 | Grand Avenue | Nellie | Film | 8.0 | 45 |
| 1995 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Gabe LaRoche’s Mother | TV | 6.1 | 44 |
| 1995 | Tecumseh: The Last Warrior | Turtle Mother | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1995 | Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West | Sarah Winnemucca | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1995 | Prophecy, Milestones & Challenges | Alive | Film | — | 44 |
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Pet | Film | 7.4 | 43 |
| 1994 | Sioux City | Dawn Rainfeather | Film | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1994 | Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee | Mary's Mother | Film | 6.7 | 43 |
| 1994 | Silent Tongue | Silent Tongue | Film | 4.7 | 43 |
| 1993 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Snow Bird | TV | 7.6 | 42 |
| 1993 | Harts of the West | Helen | TV | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1993 | Mustard Bath | Sister Amantha | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1993 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Bangor | Film | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1993 | Spirit Rider | Marilyn St. Claire | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1992 | North of 60 | Betty Moses | TV | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1991 | Black Robe | Chomina's Wife | Film | 6.5 | 40 |
| 1991 | The Lightning Incident | Vivian | Film | 5.5 | 40 |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Black Shawl | Film | 7.8 | 39 |
| 1990 | Divided Loyalties | Molly Brant | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1990 | The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' | Herself | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1988 | War Party | Sonny's Mother | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1988 | Candy Mountain | Annie | Film | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1987 | Street Legal | Renee Stonehouse | TV | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1987 | Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge | Little Doe | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1987 | Loyalties | Rosanne Ladouceur | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1986 | The Campbells | Maria Brant | TV | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1986 | Places Not Our Own | Rose (as Tantoo Martin-Cardinal) | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1983 | Running Brave | Caroline | Film | 4.3 | 32 |
| 1981 | Death Hunt | Indian Woman | Film | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1978 | Marie Ann | Tantou, Indian princess | Film | 8.0 | 27 |
| 1976 | For the Record | TV | 9.0 | 25 | |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 2 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Aunt Mary | TV | 8.8 | 0 |