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Tantoo Cardinal, actress (b at Anzac (near Fort McMurray), Alta 20 July 1950). Cardinal has created a number of memorable film roles in Canada and the US and has worked closely with some of the most important actors, directors and writers of the past decade. She is known for her strong film presence and the unspoken eloquence and depth of her performances. She acted in Marie-Anne (1979), filmed in Edmonton, and played Rosanne Ladouceur in Anne WHEELER's Loyalties (1986). For her performance Cardinal was nominated for a GENIE AWARD as best actress and received the best actress award at the American Indian Film Festival and from the Alberta Motion Picture Industry.
Cardinal gained international recognition playing Black Shawl in Dances With Wolves (1990), acting opposite Kevin Costner and Graham Greene. Her other films include Black Robe (1991; based on the novel by Brian MOORE), Mustard Bath (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994) with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, Silent Tongue (1994), written and directed by Sam Shepard, in which she played the title role, and Where the Rivers Flow North (1994), with Richard Harris and Alan Bates and for which she received the best actress award at the American Indian Film Festival. Cardinal appeared as Turtle Mother in Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995) and played a major role in Smoke Signals (1998) and then in the CBC miniseries The Temptations of Big Bear (1999), based on the novel by Rudy WIEBE, in which she played Running Second, Big Bear's wife. On stage Cardinal acted in Jessica, the adaptation of Maria CAMPBELL's Halfbreed, presented at Saskatoon's 25TH STREET THEATRE in 1982, and Edmonton's Catalyst Theatre production of All My Relations, by Floyd Favel, for which she received the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award as best actress in 1990. Maclean's magazine named her actress of the year in 1991 and in 1993 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Rochester. Cardinal has also had roles in several television series including Annie in Spirit Bay (1982-87), a recurring role as Snow Bird on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-95), and as Betty Moses on North of 60 (1993-97) for which she won a 1996 GEMINI AWARD for best performance by an actress in a guest role in a dramatic series. In 2006, she was added to the Dreamspeakers Walk of Honour during the 11th annual Dreamspeakers Film Festival in Edmonton. For filmmaking as part of the First Nations community, Cardinal received a lifetime contribution Eagle Spirit Award from the Native Indian Film Festival (1990), and an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement award from the Toronto chapter of Women in Film and Television (WIFT). She also accepted the Sun Hill Award for Excellence in Native American Filmmaking in 2007. In 1998 Tantoo Cardinal received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award to recognize her work in theatre, television and film. Cardinal was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2009.
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