Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Acting
- February 20, 1941
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
- Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story · 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, Musician
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life · Self
- Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson · Self
- 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
- Where the Spirit Lives · Music
- Stripper · Music
- Broken Rainbow · Translator's Voice (Voice)
- Harold of Orange · Music
- 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 Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Virginian · Nai'Be
- Kraft Music Hall · Self