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Lorne Cardinal

Lorne Cardinal (born 6 January 1964) is a Canadian stage, television and film actor, and stage and TV director. He is best known for portraying Daniel Deela on the Canadian drama series "North of 60" and Sergeant Davis Quinton on the comedy series Corner Gas.

Cardinal is of Cree descent, and was born near High Prairie, Alberta on a reserve of the Sucker Creek First Nation. His parents both attended the residential school system.

He obtained a B.F.A. degree in acting from the University of Alberta in 1993, the first Indigenous student to do so.

Cardinal is also a rugby union enthusiast. He played for the Edmonton Druids RFC and then the Strathcona Druids, and was the first Indigenous person to play for the latter team. In his role in Corner Gas, he is shown wearing Saskatchewan Prairie Fire rugby team merchandise.

Cardinal has had a variety of roles in theatre, film and television. These include Insomnia, renegadepress.com, Crazy Horse and Wolf Canyon.

He is noted for playing First Nations roles in many productions, including Tecumseh in Canada: A People's History, an aboriginal elder in Tkaronto, and Davis Quinton, a Cree man, on Corner Gas. He also appeared on many episodes of North of 60. Cardinal can be heard as the voice of Jacob Morin on the APTN stop motion animated series Wapos Bay: The Series.

In 2011, Cardinal starred alongside Craig Lauzon in a production of Kenneth T. Williams' play Thunderstick. The two actors traded roles on alternate days. The same year, he collaborated with Frank Moher on a production of Copper Thunderbird at Western Edge Theatre in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Cardinal completed a documentary film titled Chasing Lear (2016) with producer Monique Hurteau; it premiered on APTN. Chasing Lear explores the National Arts Centre theatre production of King Lear, that had an all-Aboriginal cast. Actors included August Schellenberg as Lear, Billy Merasty, Jani Lauzon, Tantoo Cardinal, and Kevin Loring. Lorne Cardinal did double-duty, serving as assistant director and also carrying the role of Duke of Albany.

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