Profession producer | Political party Liberal Name Tina Keeper Spouse(s) separated Uncles Gordon Beardy | |
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Role Former Member of the Canadian House of Commons Parents Phyllis Keeper, Joseph I. Keeper Siblings Barry Keeper, Joy Keeper, Lorne Keeper Grandparents Joe Keeper, Christina McLeod Movies and TV shows North of 60, For Angela, Skins, Tipi Tales, Heater Similar People Tracey Cook, Adam Beach, Chris Eyre | ||
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Keeper is best known for her role as RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi in the CBC Television series North of 60, about the fictional aboriginal community of Lynx River. She also hosted a relief concert for the 1997 Manitoba flood. In 1993, she starred in the Canada Award-winning short docudrama For Angela, dramatizing Rhonda Gordon's response to racist taunting on a Winnipeg city bus.
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Tina Keeper is Cree, originally from Norway House Cree Nation, now a Winnipeg-based media producer. She is President of Kistikan Pictures, a partner company to Buffalo Gal Pictures. Tina was formerly an actor, best known for her work on the hit Canadian series “North of 60”. Recent productions include the feature film Road of Iniquity, the critically acclaimed Royal Winnipeg Ballet Going Home Star (2014), about the Indian Residential School history in Canada, The REDress REdress Project (2013), a short documentary on the issue of Murdered and Missing Aboriginal women in Manitoba, and the APTN drama series Cashing In (2014), which follows the high stakes gaming at North Beach Casino. Upcoming feature film production for Kistikan is Through Black Spruce based on Joseph Boyden’s Giller-prize-winning novel.
Tina also served as a Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Churchill.
Tina has a BA Theatre from the University of Winnipeg and has trained at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, the Banff Centre and the Sundance Film Institute.
Tina currently serves as Chairperson of the board of trustees for the Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Foundation, member of the advisory Committee to Urban Shaman Gallery, the advisory committee to Red Cross Manitoba, Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is member of the Order of Manitoba, Canadians for a New Partnership, a recipient of an Aboriginal Achievement Award, a Gemini Award, three American Indian Film Festival awards for acting and producing, a 2014 Canadian Civil Liberties Association award for Public Engagement, was named ACTRA’s 2017 Women of the Year, and in June 2017, Tina received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Wilfred Laurier University and a Governor General Meritorious Service Medal along with the late Elder Mary Richard and RWB Artistic Director Andre Lewis for the ballet Going Home Star.
Keeper was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the granddaughter of Olympic long distance runner Joe Keeper and daughter of Joseph I. Keeper (Norway House Cree Nation and member of the Order of Canada and the Rev. Canon Dr. Phyllis Keeper (née Beardy, Muskrat Dam First Nation). Her siblings Joy, Lorne and Barry are involved in the arts, media and education fields.
She was elected in 2006 Canadian election as the Liberal Party candidate in Churchill. Keeper served as the Official Opposition's Critic for Public Health and Canadian Heritage and as Special Advisor for Aboriginal Outreach in the parliament that followed.