Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 20, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA
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
Movie · as Self
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Movie · as Self
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
Movie · as Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Movie · as Self
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
Movie · as Narrator
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Movie · as Self
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Movie · as Self
Buffy
Movie · as Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Movie · as Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Movie · as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
Movie · as Main Artist
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV · as The Spirit (voice) · 1 ep
The Broken Chain
Movie · as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
Uranium
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Broken Rainbow
Movie · as Translator's Voice (voice)
Walkabout to Hollywood
Movie · as Self
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Movie · as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Austin City Limits
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dinah!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
As Long as the Rivers Run
Movie · as Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Then Came Bronson
TV · as Tender Grass · 1 ep
Festival
Movie · as Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Movie · as Self
Top of the Pops
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Virginian
TV · as Nai'Be · 1 ep
Kraft Music Hall
TV · as Self · 1 ep