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Tanya Tagaq

  • Composer
  • Actress
  • Music Department
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Tanya Tagaq at an event for Tungijuq (2009)
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Tanya Tagaq was born on 5 May 1975 in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. She is a composer and actress, known for Thoroughbreds (2017), Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) and True Detective (2014).
BornMay 5, 1975
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BornMay 5, 1975
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations total

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    Known for

    Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy in Thoroughbreds (2017)
    Thoroughbreds
    6.6
    • Soundtrack
    • 2017
    Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
    7.1
    • Music Department
    • 2025
    Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective (2014)
    True Detective
    8.8
    TV Series
    • Doula
    Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bailey Poching, Jay Ryan, Doreen Nutaaq Simmonds, Zorga Qaunaq, Keira Belle Cooper, Maika Harper, Braeden Clarke, and Anna Lambe in North of North (2025)
    North of North
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Nuliajuq

    Credits

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    Composer

    • Coppermine
      • composer
      • Post-production
    • Inua: A Story in Ice and Time (2022)
      Inua: A Story in Ice and Time
      Video Game
      • music
      • 2022
    • Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer (2022)
      Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • Bootlegger (2021)
      Bootlegger
      5.7
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Off the Air (2011)
      Off the Air
      8.4
      TV Series
      • music "Snowblind" (segment "Extrapolate")
      • 2019
    • Benjamin Kunuk in Searchers (2016)
      Searchers
      6.4
      • Composer
      • 2016
    • Igloolik, a real tale (2015)
      Igloolik, a real tale
      • music by
      • 2015
    • Chasms of Silence
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2014
    • This Land (2009)
      This Land
      Short
      • composer
      • 2009
    • Tungijuq (2009)
      Tungijuq
      7.7
      Short
      • Composer (as Tanya Tagaq Gillis)
      • 2009
    • Rides
      Video
      • music
      • 2004

    Actress

    • Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bailey Poching, Jay Ryan, Doreen Nutaaq Simmonds, Zorga Qaunaq, Keira Belle Cooper, Maika Harper, Braeden Clarke, and Anna Lambe in North of North (2025)
      North of North
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Nuliajuq
      • 2025
    • Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective (2014)
      True Detective
      8.8
      TV Series
      • Doula
      • 2024
    • Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer (2022)
      Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer
      Short
      • 2022
    • Weaves: Scream (2017)
      Weaves: Scream
      Music Video
      • Tanya Tagaq
      • 2017
    • A-Z of Music
      6.4
      Short
      • Protest
      • 2017
    • Bol (2012)
      Bol
      Short
      • (voice)
      • 2012
    • Tungijuq (2009)
      Tungijuq
      7.7
      Short
      • (as Tanya Tagaq Gillis)
      • 2009

    Music Department

    • Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
      Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
      7.1
      • featured musician: Inuit throat singing
      • 2025
    • Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in True Detective (2014)
      True Detective
      8.8
      TV Series
      • additional music by
      • 2024
    • Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, and Nalajoss Ellsworth in Slash/Back (2022)
      Slash/Back
      5.7
      • featured vocal performances
      • 2022
    • Newtok (2021)
      Newtok
      8.0
      • additional music
      • 2021
    • Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
      Drawing Restraint 9
      6.4
      • throat singer (as Tagaq)
      • 2005

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    Ever Deadly
    Trailer 2:15
    Ever Deadly
    EVER DEADLY - official US trailer
    Trailer 2:15
    EVER DEADLY - official US trailer
    EVER DEADLY - official US trailer
    Trailer 2:15
    EVER DEADLY - official US trailer

    Personal details

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    • Alternative names
      • Tanya Tagaq Gillis
    • Born
      • May 5, 1975
      • Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada

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    • Trivia
      She is an Inuit throat singer and artist. Many of her works deal with abuse of indigenous women and children and of nature.

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