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
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022 · Movie
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020 · Movie
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
2018 · Movie
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017 · Movie
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
2015 · Movie
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013 · Movie
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011 · Series
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010 · Movie
Buffy
2010 · Movie
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006 · Movie
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999 · Movie
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
1996 · Movie
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
The Broken Chain
1993 · Movie
Uranium
1990 · Movie
Where the Spirit Lives
1990 · Movie
Stripper
1985 · Movie
Broken Rainbow
1985 · Movie
Harold of Orange
1984 · Movie
The Great Spirit Within the Hole
1983 · Movie
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980 · Movie
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979 · Movie
Austin City Limits
1975 · Series
Dinah!
1974 · Series
As Long as the Rivers Run
1971 · Movie
Then Came Bronson
1969 · Series
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969 · Series
Festival
1967 · Movie
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965 · Movie
Top of the Pops
1964 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
Kraft Music Hall
1958 · Series