Tantoo Cardinal is an award-winning actress of Indigenous descent. A trail blazing Actress who has appeared in over 130 film and television projects over the course of her 50-year career. This multi-award-winning performer is a Member of the Order of Canada, a CBC/Playback Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of the Earle Grey Award (a lifetime achievement award by the Canadian Screen Awards), the Governor General's Artistic Lifetime Achievement Award, and The Ustinov Award. She also has a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame and holds honorary doctorates from 5 universities.

Film work includes Killers of the Flower Moon, 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. 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), the Marvel series, Echo, on Disney + and Hulu and she just wrapped the final season of Avatar: Last of the Air Benders. 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”. The lead role in "Witch" for Soul Pepper Theatre and was Awarded the Theatre Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on “The Inheritance” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles