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Tamara Podemski

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Tamara Podemski
"Run" follows a woman whose humdrum life is thrown upside down when she receives a text from her college sweetheart inviting her to drop everything and meet him in New York to fulfill the pact they made 17 years previously.
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Tamara Podemski is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto to an Ojibway mother from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan and an Ashkenazi father from Israel. She is a graduate of the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts where she studied theatre, dance and music throughout its 10-year program.

Though she is best known as a screen actress, Tamara's stage career has spanned over 25 years as an actress, singer, dancer and choreographer, most notably starring on Broadway in the musical RENT. She also has independent recording career, having wrote and released 3 albums [2 in Anishinaabemowin and 1 in English under her own record label, Mukwa Music].

Tamara made her biggest mark in Sterlin Harjo's film "Four Sheets to the Wind" when she won the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, followed by an IFC Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2008. After returning to the stage, she earned a Jessie Theatre Award nomination for her role in Marie Clements' play "The Edward Curtis Project" and, under the direction of Jani Lauzon, Tamara starred in Colleen Wagner's Governor General's Award-Winning Play "The Monument," which was hailed as one of the "10 Best Theatre Productions of 2018" by the Globe & Mail. Recently, she joined the all-Indigenous cast of Keith Barker's "This is How We Got Here" which won a 2020 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play. Behind the camera, Tamara is the writer and story producer of the documentary TV series Future History (directed and produced by her sister, Jennifer Podemski) and was nominated for Best Writing in a Factual Series at the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards. Tamara recently won an 2021 ACTRA Award for "Outstanding Female Performance" and a 2021 Canadian Screen Award for "Best Supporting Actress - Drama" for her role as Alison Trent in CBC's "Coroner."

As a community worker, she has travelled the globe sharing her cultural and creative experiences through workshops, keynotes and panel discussions. Having grandparents who are both Holocaust survivors and Residential School survivors, she speaks openly about issues of intergenerational trauma, reconciliation, inherited legacies and the importance of creating safe spaces for dialogue, education and collaboration.
BornOctober 16, 1977
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Tamara Podemski in Outer Range (2022)
Matthew Maher and Tamara Podemski in Outer Range (2022)
Tamara Podemski in Outer Range (2022)
Tamara Podemski
Tamara Podemski
Tamara Podemski
Keith Barker's "This Is How We Got Here"
As Deputy Sheriff Babe Cloud from "RUN"
As Alison Trent in "Coroner"
As Alison Trent in "Coroner"
2019 Canadian Screen Awards
The Podemski Sisters at the Canadian Screen Awards

Known for

Serinda Swan in Coroner (2019)
Coroner
6.8
TV Series
  • Alison Trent
  • Alison
Dance Me Outside (1994)
Dance Me Outside
7.1
  • Little Margaret
  • 1994
Future History (2018)
Future History
TV Series
  • Writer
Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson in Run (2020)
Run
6.2
TV Series
  • Babe Cloud

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Actress

  • Essex County
    • Pre-production
  • Fancy Dance (2023)
    Fancy Dance
  • D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis, Lane Factor, and Devery Jacobs in Reservation Dogs (2021)
    Reservation Dogs
  • Outer Range (2022)
    Outer Range
  • Rose McIver, Rebecca Wisocky, Brandon Scott Jones, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Sheila Carrasco, Román Zaragoza, Devan Chandler Long, and Danielle Pinnock in Ghosts (2021)
    Ghosts
  • Serinda Swan in Coroner (2019)
    Coroner
  • Csaba András Kertész in Unsettled
    Unsettled
  • Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson in Run (2020)
    Run
  • Erin Karpluk, Evan Buliung, Charles Vandervaart, Kate Moyer, and Ruby Jay in Holly Hobbie (2018)
    Holly Hobbie
  • David Thewlis in Guest of Honour (2019)
    Guest of Honour
  • Never Saw It Coming (2018)
    Never Saw It Coming
  • David Sutcliffe and Brooke Nevin in Cracked (2013)
    Cracked
  • Copper (2012)
    Copper
    • (uncredited)
  • The Lesser Blessed (2012)
    The Lesser Blessed
  • Graham Wardle, Amber Marshall, Alisha Newton, Ruby Spencer, and Emmanuella Spencer in Heartland (2007)
    Heartland
  • William Shatner and Chris Jaymes in Making a Scene (2010)
    Making a Scene

Writer

  • Future History (2018)
    Future History
  • Tamara Podemski: Meegwetch

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Moccasin Flats (2003)
    Moccasin Flats

Videos10

Meegwetch Music Video
Demo Reel 3:57
Meegwetch Music Video
Season 1 Trailer
Trailer 1:01
Season 1 Trailer
Official Trailer
Trailer 2:05
Official Trailer
Teaser Trailer
Trailer 1:10
Teaser Trailer
Season 1 Official Trailer
Trailer 2:01
Season 1 Official Trailer
The Lesser Blessed
Trailer 2:10
The Lesser Blessed
Run: In The Weeks Ahead
Trailer 1:13
Run: In The Weeks Ahead
Run
Trailer 2:05
Run
Run: Calm Down
Trailer 1:09
Run: Calm Down
Run: Season 1
Trailer 1:08
Run: Season 1

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    • October 16, 1977
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Jamie Thomas KingSeptember 1, 2013 - present
    • Jennifer Podemski(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Left the Broadway production of 'Rent' on October 3, 1999 where she was starring on as performance artist Maureen Johnson.
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    Certified Krav Maga Instructor since 2008. Taught both Self Defense and Fitness at Krav Maga Worldwide National Training Centre in Los Angeles for 3 years.

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