- Kaniehtiio Horn
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Kaniehtiio Horn Born c. 1986 (age 24)[1]
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaOther names Tiio Horn, Kaniehti:io Horn Occupation Actress Years active 2006–present Kaniehtiio Horn (born c. 1986) is a Mohawk actress. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role in the television film Moccasin Flats: Redemption. She appeared in the films The Trotsky, Leslie, My Name is Evil and The Wild Hunt, and stars in the CBC television sitcom 18 to Life.
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Early life
Born in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Horn is a native of Kahnawake, a Mohawk reserve outside of Montreal. Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a former model and a political activist for the Kahnawake First Nation. Her father, who is white, is a lawyer. Horn has three older sisters. Her sister, Waneek Horn-Miller, was co-captain of the Canadian women's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.[2]
Horn decided to be an actor at a young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager. She graduated from Dawson College in 2005 for theatre arts, and appeared in a number of short films.[3]
Career
Horn's first film acting credit was in 2006 for the CBC television mini-series Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis. Horn was present at the 1990 Oka Crisis at the age of four with her mother and 14-year-old sister.[3] Her sister, Waneek, was stabbed in the chest by a soldier's bayonet while holding Horn; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, symbolized the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.[2]
Horn landed a role in the 2007 drama film The Colony, directed by Jeff Barnaby. In 2008, she appeared in the TV film Moccasin Flats: Redemption, and was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role. She also appeared in Journey to the Center of the Earth that year, starring Brendan Fraser.
In 2009, Horn starred in The Trotsky, directed by Jacob Tierney, playing a Montreal high school student. She appeared in The Wild Hunt, directed by Alexandre Franchi and in Reginald Harkema's Leslie, My Name Is Evil, as a member of Charles Manson's death cult.[4] The three Canadian films were selected for the prestigious Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. The Trotsky and The Wild Hunt made the Top 10 Canadian films list at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
Horn stars in the CBC television sitcom 18 to Life as Monica Bellow. The series was picked up by the CW network, and aired in the U.S. starting in August 2010. Horn was filming a second season in Montreal in mid 2010.[5]
Horn voiced several roles in By the Rapids, an APTN cartoon she made in collaboration with friend Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare. She also shot an APTN television pilot, Escape Hatch, with Mohawk writer-director Tracey Deer. In 2010, Horn will work with director Jacob Tierney again in the film Notre Dame de Grâce.[1] Horn appeared in the low-budget slasher film A Flesh Offering, directed by Jeremy Torrie, starring as an artist that gets lost in the woods.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Griffith, John (January 2, 2010). "Kaniehtiio Horn: Professional streak". Montreal Gazette.
- ^ a b Starkman, Randy (July 29, 1999). "From Oka battles to Pan Am glory". Toronto Star.
- ^ a b Griffith, John (October 9, 2009). "Mohawk actress rooted in family and community". Ottawa Citizen. http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/artslife/story.html?id=4c71ad53-ccf8-40e3-8509-170cdf07a471. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
- ^ Motion Picture Purgatory: Leslie, My Name Is Evil
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (July 14, 2010). "'18 to Life' picked up by CW". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i9342877e23cfa0f9652a27dbe8c1fb6b. Retrieved July 17, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Wilner, Norman (October 21, 2010). "A Flesh Offering". Now. http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=177298. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
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Categories:- Canadian film actors
- Canadian television actors
- Living people
- Mohawk people
- People from Montreal
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Dawson College alumni
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