Tina Keeper

Tina Keeper

Actor | Former MP

Tina Keeper, Norway House Cree Nation, is best known for her work on the hit television series 'North of 60'. In 2010, Tina partnered with Buffalo Gal pictures to create Kistikan Pictures Inc. to collaborate in the development and production of Indigenous film and television.

Most recently, Keeper acted in the illustrious film Falls Around Her by Anishinaabe director Darlene Naponse, and in 2018 she acted in and co-produced the feature film Through Black Spruce with Serendipity Point Films. In 2017 she co-produced a 360-3D VR short film Sky Stories with Tangent Animation, 2015 produced the feature film Road of Iniquity by Maliseet director Mark Ennis, in 2014 the full-length ballet Going Home Star co-produced with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, from 2010-2013 the drama Tv series for APTN called Cashing In ,and in 2013 a short documentary for MTSOnDemand called the REDress Redress Project.
  • 2017 August Schellenberg Award of Excellence, ImagineNative 
  • Named 2017 ACTRA Woman of the Year
  • 2017 Honourary Doctor of Letters from Wilfred Laurier University
  • 2014 Canadian Civil Liberties Association Award for Public Engagement
  • 2014 Honourary Witness for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
  • Board of Trustees, Chair, Helen Betty Osborne Foundation, current
  • Board of Directors, Member, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, 2008-14
  • Board of Directors, Member, Manitoba Hydro, 2012-15
  • Board of Directors, Onscreen Manitoba, 2013-15
  • Recipient National Aboriginal Achievement Award, 2004
  • Recipient Member Order of Manitoba, 2002
  • Recipient Gemini Award, Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Role, 1996
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