Buffy Sainte-Marie
Born: 1941-02-20
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On as Self
2020
- Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble as Self
2017
2015
2013
2010
- Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie as Self
- Buffy as Self
2006
1999
- Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson as Self - Cree (archive footage)
1996
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong as Main Artist
1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The Spirit (voice)
1993
- The Broken Chain as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
1990
- Where the Spirit Lives ... (Music)
- Uranium as Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
- Stripper ... (Music)
- Broken Rainbow as Translator's Voice (voice)
1984
- Harold of Orange ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- The Great Spirit Within the Hole ... (Music)
1980
- Walkabout to Hollywood as Self
1979
- A Walking Tour of Sesame Street as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
- Austin City Limits as Self
1974
- Dinah! as Self
1971
- As Long as the Rivers Run as Self
1969
- Then Came Bronson as Tender Grass
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
1967
- Festival as Self
1965
1964
- Top of the Pops as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Nai'Be
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1958
- Kraft Music Hall as Self