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Tamara Podemski

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 Muscowpetung band of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Her paternal grandparents were from Poland, and moved to Canada after World War II. Her sisters, Jennifer Podemski and Sarah Podemski are also actors. All three sisters appear together in the FX series Reservation Dogs.

Known For

Dance Me Outside
Dance Me Outside
Fancy Dance
Fancy Dance
The Lesser Blessed
The Lesser Blessed
Four Sheets to the Wind
Four Sheets to the Wind
Never Saw It Coming
Never Saw It Coming
Guest of Honour
Guest of Honour
The Light Before the Sun
The Light Before the Sun

Filmography

2025 Blood Lines
as Pehmee
2025 Murderbot
as Bharadwaj
2024 The Light Before the Sun
as Amanda Wolf
2024 Fancy Dance
as Ricky
2023 Essex County
as Joy
2022 Monster High
as Coach Thunderbird (voice)
2022 Outer Range
as Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk
2022 The Legend of Vox Machina
as Uvenda (voice)
2021 Ghosts
as Dr. Long
2021 Unsettled
as Tara Wasnoday
2021 Reservation Dogs
as Teenie
2020 Guest of Honour
as Detective Grove
2019 Coroner
as Alison Trent
2018 Never Saw It Coming
as Detective Rona Wedmore
2012 The Lesser Blessed
as Verna Sole
2008 New Amsterdam
as Young Lenape Woman
2007 Heartland
as April
2007 Four Sheets to the Wind
as Miri Smallhill
2006 Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
as Deborah 'Chicky' Etienne
2003 Another Country: A North of 60 Mystery
as Jane Crowe