Tamara Podemski

Tamara Podemski

actress, writer, second unit director or assistant director

Tamara Podemski was born on Oct 16, 1977 in Canada. Tamara Podemski's big-screen debut came with Dance Me Outside directed by Bruce McDonald in 1994. Tamara Podemski is known for Outer Range directed by Jennifer Getzinger, Josh Brolin stars as Royal Abbott and Imogen Poots as Autumn. Tamara Podemski has got 4 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Tamara Podemski achieved is Canadian Screen Awards, CA. The upcoming new tvshow Tamara Podemski plays is Outer Range - Season 1 which will be released on Apr 15, 2022.

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.

  • Birthday

    Oct 16, 1977
  • Place of Birth

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Also known

    타마라 포뎀스키

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Awards

4 wins & 3 nominations

Canadian Screen Awards, CA
2022
Best Guest Performance, Drama Series
Winner - Canadian Screen Award
2022
Best Supporting Actress, Drama
Winner - Canadian Screen Award
2021
Best Supporting Actress, Drama
Winner - Canadian Screen Award
ACTRA Awards
2021
Outstanding Performance - Female
Winner - ACTRA Toronto Award
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