Tantoo Cardinal is an award-winning actress of Indigenous descent who starred alongside Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023.

Recent TV series work includes playing Sue Lynn Blackbird in the ABC Television Network series "Stumptown." Or opposite Alfred Molina in the series "3 Pines" on Amazon (produced by the same producers of The "Crown") and soon to be seen in the new Marvel series, "Echo."

Tantoo has appeared in over 120 film and television projects over the course of her 50-year career. She is a multi-award-winning performer, including the Earle Grey Award (a lifetime achievement award by the Canadian Screen Awards), is a Member of the Order of Canada and is a CBC/Playback Hall of Fame inductee and a recipient of the 2020 Governor Generals Artistic Achievement Lifetime Achievement Award– Broadcasting and Film (awarded in 2021). She has Honorary Doctorates from 5 Universities and is receiving her own star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, Dec 2023.

Her credits include numerous plays, television programs, and feature films, including the features: Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Falls Around Her, Wind River, The Grizzlies, Where The Rivers Flow North, Maina, Chasing Shakespeare and Eden.

Television credits include: "SEE," "Westworld," "Longmire," "Mohawk Girls," "Frontier," "Blackstone," "Lonesome Dove," "Nobody’s Girls," "Godless" and "Penny Dreadful" among others.

Theatre work includes playing "Gertrude in Hamlet," Regan in the production of "King Lear" and the role of Pelajia in a production of "The Rez Sisters”. She was Awarded the Theatre Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on “The Inheritance” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

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