Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 20, 1941
Credits
33 titles
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Self
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
Narrator
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Self
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Self
Buffy
Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
Main Artist
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Spirit (voice)
The Broken Chain
Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
Uranium
Self - Narrator (voice)
Where the Spirit Lives
Music
Stripper
Music
Broken Rainbow
Translator's Voice (voice)
Harold of Orange
Original Music Composer
The Great Spirit Within the Hole
Music
Walkabout to Hollywood
Self
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Austin City Limits
Self
Dinah!
Self
As Long as the Rivers Run
Self
Then Came Bronson
Tender Grass
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self
Festival
Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Self
Top of the Pops
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Virginian
Nai'Be
Kraft Music Hall
Self