Tamara Podemski

Actress

October 16, 1977 (48 years)

Toronto, Canada

Biography

Tamara Podemski (born October 16, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress and writer. She is known for her supporting role as Alison Trent in the television series Coroner, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. Podemski was raised in Toronto where she attended Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. Her father is an Israeli Jew from Kfar Saba, and her mother is an Anishinaabe from the Mu…

Filmography

8.2

The Legend of Vox Machina

Uvenda (voice)

They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.

8.3

Heartland

April

Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

8.0

Ghosts

Dr. Long

Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.

6.9

Outer Range

Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk

A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.

7.0

Coroner

Alison Trent

Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.

7.9

Reservation Dogs

Teenie

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.

7.3

Murderbot

Bharadwaj

In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet... even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

7.8

Monster High

Coach Thunderbird (voice)

Based on the Monster High franchise, Clawdeen Wolf arrives at Monster High with a dark secret. With the help of her friends Draculaura and Frankie Stein, she is able to embrace her true monster heart and save the school from total destruction.

5.8

Saint-Pierre

Natasha Bourge

Exiled to Saint-Pierre, Newfoundland Inspector Fitzpatrick (Fitz) is partnered with headstrong Deputy Chief Archambault (Arch) to solve unique crimes that bely the French island's idyllic façade.

7.1

New Amsterdam

Young Lenape Woman

John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native Indian girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. In return, the girl cast an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.

3.6

The Borderline

Erica Ross

A border town cop uncovers an illegal drug trade tied to his childhood friend and a ruthless British crime syndicate operating in the scenic 1000 Islands region between Canada and the U.S.

7.5

Youngblood

Ms. Mcgill

Hockey prodigy Dean Youngblood joins the Hamilton Mustangs and has to deal with toxic behavior during his journey to the National Hockey League draft.

6.5

RUN

Babe Cloud

Ruby is living a humdrum existence when one day she gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her life to take a journey with her oldest flame.

5.5

Essex County

Joy

A story of four disparate characters linked together through bloodlines. From old Uncle Lou, to young Lester, to Anne the country nurse and Ken, the stoic farmer, the four lead characters ebb and flow into each other's lives, slowly weaving connections between them that ultimately save and redeem them.

N/A

The Rez

Lucy Pegahmagabow

The Rez was a first nations, Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Most of the characters were based on W.P. Kinsella's short story collection Dance Me Outside, which had been made into a film by director Bruce McDonald. McDonald and Norman Jewison were executive producers of the series, which chronicled life in a First Nations community. The series was filmed in the Parry Sound region at Harrison's Landing in Carling Township. All episodes run around 23 Minutes.

N/A

Unsettled

Tara Wasnoday

Urban, Indigenous adoptee Rayna Keetch grew up with no connection to her Indigenous roots. Recently reunited with her birth family, Rayna is about to return to her First Nation for a traditional homecoming ceremony when her husband Darryl announces that he's been a victim of a scam and has lost their fortune.

6.6

Fancy Dance

Ricky

Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

7.0

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

Deborah 'Chicky' Etienne

Fictionalized portrayal of the conflict and standoff in Kanehsatake during the summer of 1990. This major conflict between a Mohawk community and municipal, Quebec and Canadian governments was over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery. Based on the book by John Ciaccia (Quebec Liberal cabinet minister and negotiator) : The Oka Crisis, A Mirror of the Soul

N/A

Blood Lines

Pehmee

Whilst embarking on a lesbian relationship with the new girl in town, a Métis woman’s life is rocked to the core when her estranged mother returns.

5.3

Never Saw It Coming

Detective Rona Wedmore

Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that’s what she passes herself off as. Her real powers have more to do with separating troubled families from their money than actually seeing into the netherworld. When Keisha targets the family of the missing Ellie Garfield she becomes entangled in the dark secrets of Ellie’s husband Wendell Garfield and his daughter Melissa.