- Data di nascita
- Nome alla nascitaRose Marie Cardinal
- Tantoo Cardinal è nata il 20 luglio 1950. Luogo di nascita: Canada. È conosciuta come attrice e regista. È celebre per aver partecipato a I segreti di Wind River (2017), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) e Balla coi lupi (1990). È stata sposata con John Lawlor e Fred Martin.
- ConiugiJohn Lawlor(14 gennaio 1988 - 29 novembre 2000) (divorziato, 1 bambino)Fred Martin(1968 - 1976) (divorziato, 1 bambino)
- BambiniRiel
- GenitoriJulia Cardinal
- Learned Lakota for the Academy Award-winning film, Balla coi lupi (1990).
- She is "métis," the French cognate of Spanish "mestizo," indicating a person of mixed American Aboriginal and European ancestry (usually an Algonquian ethnic group and a Celtic and/or French ethnic group). Cardinal is Cree and French.
- Performed in a series of one-hour documentaries called "As Long as the Rivers Flow," about Native Canadians' drive for self-government.
- Born in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, the first child of of a Metis woman named Julia Cardinal, she was raised by her maternal Cree grandmother in Anzac, Alberta (her step-grandfather was English).
- Native activism was reaching its height in the late 60s and early 1970s when she began experimenting with acting. As a young actress, Cardinal began her career with a docudrama for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) and in productions for the Alberta Native Communications Society.
- We had no TV where I grew up in my community in northern Canada, and the only images of native people that I was exposed to were my family and my relatives; these were wonderful and strong individuals whom I looked up to. It was only when I moved to Edmonton in Alberta in 1965, that I saw a different kind of image that was prevalent in Canadian society at that time, a negative image of native peoples as having no fixed address, and of being somehow 'lesser than.' Acting for me was a way to redress this imbalance; acting allows me to present a different kind of truth, to bring some light back into the stories of our history.
- Life in the business is also highly challenging. Sometimes you are dissatisfied, it's difficult sometimes. You're always thinking of how it could be better. It's a 20-legged race, you don't work alone. There are so many others working to tell the same story. We as Indian artists don't have the luxury of being individuals. We represent ages and ages. The work of an artist is a highly responsible one."
- I got into acting through my political involvement, through a sense of justice. I wanted to see things change, to offset some of the lies that have been told about us throughout history. The attitude of the public back in the '60s was so backward and ill-informed. By the time I found out about our history and how we were treated, I was in a rage. It was really a time of darkness and great frustration. There was an incredible wall we had to get through." ...[The] Canadian Content Rule, which came into existence in the mid 1960s, was the beginning to opening doors and minds. It resulted in producers actually casting real Native people to play Native roles.
- I'm amazed at how comfortable I've become being more visible, getting out there in front of people and owning my beauty. I didn't grow up thinking I had a pretty face because there was an undercurrent that [Native women] didn't meet society's beauty standards. It is time to claim the beauty that comes from the women in my bloodline.
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