Buffy Sainte-Marie
Acting
1941-02-20
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
Filmography(29)
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
as Self · 2022 · 7.5
movieStronger Together, Tous Ensemble
as Self · 2020 · 5.5
movieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self · 2017 · 7.6
movieThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
as Narrator · 2015 · 0.0
movieGreenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
as Self · 2013 · 7.0
tvOn the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as Self · 2011 · 0.0
movieSaint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
as Self · 2010 · 6.5
movieBuffy
as Self · 2010 · 7.0
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
as Self · 2006 · 0.0
movieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
as Self - Cree (archive footage) · 1999 · 7.0
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
as Main Artist · 1996 · 10.0
tvHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as The Spirit (voice) · 1995 · 6.3
movieThe Broken Chain
as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife · 1993 · 3.4
movieUranium
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1990 · 0.0
movieBroken Rainbow
as Translator's Voice (voice) · 1985 · 5.8
movieWalkabout to Hollywood
as Self · 1980 · 0.0
movieA Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1979 · 0.0
tvAustin City Limits
as Self · 1975 · 6.3
tvDinah!
as Self · 1974 · 7.0
movieAs Long as the Rivers Run
as Self · 1971 · 0.0
tvThen Came Bronson
as Tender Grass · 1969 · 5.2
tvThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self · 1969 · 6.8
movieFestival
as Self · 1967 · 6.0
movieThe Creative Person: The Folksinger
as Self · 1965 · 0.0