Kaniehtiio Horn

Kaniehtiio Horn (Mohawk pronunciation: [ɡanjehˈdiːjo];[1][2][3] born November 8, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role in the television film Moccasin Flats: Redemption and has appeared in the films The Trotsky, Leslie, My Name Is Evil, and The Wild Hunt, as well as the sitcoms 18 to Life, Letterkenny, and Hemlock Grove.

Kaniehtiio Horn
Horn in April 2018
Born	(1986-11-08) November 8, 1986 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Other names	Tiio Horn
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present
Relatives	Kahn-Tineta Horn (mother) Waneek Horn-Miller (sister)

Early life

Horn was born in Ottawa and grew up both in Ottawa and on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve outside of Montreal.[4] Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a Mohawk former model and a political activist for the Kahnawake First Nation. Her father, who is of German and Scottish descent, is a lawyer.[4] Horn, her mother, and her older sister Waneek (later a broadcaster and co-captain of the Canadian women's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics)[5] were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis.[6] Waneek was stabbed in the chest by a soldier wielding a bayonet while holding Horn, who was then aged four; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, symbolized the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.[7][8][5][9]

Horn decided to be an actress at a young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager. She graduated from Dawson College in 2005 for theatre arts, and appeared in a number of short films.[10]

Career

Horn's first film acting credit was in 2006 for the CBC television mini-series Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (for which she had been present at the real-life event sixteen years earlier).

Horn landed a role in the 2007 drama film The Colony, directed by Jeff Barnaby. In 2008, she appeared in the TV film Moccasin Flats: Redemption, and was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role. She also appeared in Journey to the Center of the Earth that year, starring Brendan Fraser.

In 2009, Horn starred in The Trotsky, directed by Jacob Tierney, playing a Montreal high school student. In Web of Lies, a TV movie about a cybersecurity specialist accused of fraud, she played a hacker called Spider. She appeared in The Wild Hunt, directed by Alexandre Franchi and in Reginald Harkema's Leslie, My Name Is Evil, as a member of Charles Manson's death cult.[11] The three Canadian films were selected for the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. The Trotsky and The Wild Hunt made the Top 10 Canadian films list at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.[12]

Horn starred in the CBC television sitcom 18 to Life as Monica Bellow. The series was picked up by the CW network and aired in the US beginning in August 2010. Horn filmed a second season in Montreal in mid-2010.[13]

Horn voiced several roles in By the Rapids, an APTN cartoon she made in collaboration with Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare. She also shot an APTN television pilot, Escape Hatch, with Mohawk writer-director Tracey Deer. In 2010, Horn again worked with Jacob Tierney in the film Good Neighbours.[12] She starred in the low-budget slasher film A Flesh Offering, directed by Jeremy Torrie, playing an artist that gets lost in the woods.[14]

In 2011, Horn starred in the horror anthology film The Theatre Bizarre,[15] and played a priestess in Immortals. She filmed Penthouse North, with Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton, and shot a CBC comedy pilot.[4] In 2012, Horn joined the cast of the Netflix drama Hemlock Grove as Destiny Rumancek, a Romani witch. She starred alongside Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron and Lili Taylor in the series.[16]

Horn voiced the role of Kaniehtí:io, the Native American protagonist's (Ratohnhake:ton) Mohawk mother, in the 2012 video game, Assassin's Creed III, developed by Ubisoft. She wrote and directed her debut film that year, The Smoke Shack, in association with the National Screen Institute.[17] In 2013, Horn played Rynn, an Irathient Spirit Rider, on the Syfy TV series, Defiance,[18] and played Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz in "Slumber Party", an episode of the CW series Supernatural.[19] She also appeared in Embrace of the Vampire starring Sharon Hinnendael, a remake of the 1995 horror film of the same name,[20] in the television special Gavin Crawford's Wild West and in the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle.

Horn appears in a recurring role as Tanis in the CraveTV series Letterkenny.

In 2020, Horn appeared as a panelist on Canada Reads, advocating for Eden Robinson's novel Son of a Trickster.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Might of the Starchaser		Short film
2006	Montreal Stories: 1971	Young Woman	Short film
2007	The Colony	Myriam	Short film
2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Gum-Chewing Girl
2008	South of the Moon	Mysterious Woman
2009	Missing	Alice	Short film
2009	The Trotsky	Caroline	as Tiio Horn
2009	The Wild Hunt	Princess Evlynia/Lyn	as Tiio Horn
2009	Leslie, My Name Is Evil	Katie	also known as Manson, My Name Is Evil
2010	Til Death...	Jessica	Short film
2010	Good Neighbours	Johanne
2010	You Are So Undead	Chelsea	Short film
2010	A Flesh Offering	Jennifer Morrisseau
2011	Gene-Fusion	Cho	Voice role (animated film)
2011	The Theatre Bizarre	The Writer	Segment: "Vision Stains"
2011	Voyez comme ils dansent	La femme kaska	French-language film; as Kanietillo Horn
2011	Immortals	High Priestess #3
2012	On the Road	Rita Bettancourt	as Tiio Horn
2013	Embrace of the Vampire	Nicole	as Tiio Horn
2014	Penthouse North	Blake	as Tiio Horn
2017	Mohawk	Okwaho
2018	22 Chaser	Avery Dankert
2018	The Hummingbird Project	Barbara Lehman	as Tiio Horn
2018	Wynter	Wynter	pilot for a TV series that never happened on APTN[22][23]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis	Susan Oke	Television miniseries
2007	Abducted: Fugitive for Love	Mindy	Television movie
2007	Too Young to Marry	Molly	Television movie; as Tiio Horn
2007	Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin	Receptioniste	Episode: "Rêver en couleur"; French-language TV series
2007	Moccasin Flats: Redemption	Kayleigh	Television movie
2007	The Terrorist Next Door	Angel	Television movie
2009	Web of Lies	Spider	Television movie
2009-11	Doggy Day School	Rosie (voice)	Recurring role
2010	Mohawk Girls	Bailey	Episode: Pilot
2010–11	18 to Life	Monica Bellow	Main role, 25 episodes; as Tiio Horn
2011	Being Human	Lindsey	Episode: "It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Wrong"
2011	By the Rapids	Bev Littlehorn/Grandma Hazel/Wendy	Voice role (animated series); Episode: "Invasion at Turtle Island"
2012	Alphas	Trisha	Episode: "Alphaville"
2013	Gavin Crawford's Wild West	Shannon	Television movie
2013	Supernatural	Dorothy Baum	Episode: "Slumber Party"; as Tiio Horn
2013–14	Defiance	Rynn	Recurring role, 6 episodes; as Tiio Horn
2013–15	Hemlock Grove	Destiny Rumancek	Recurring role (season 1); main role (seasons 2–3); 27 episodes
2015	19-2	Sasha Renner	3 episodes; as Tiio Horn
2015	The Fixer	Chloe	television miniseries[24]
2016	The Strain	Kimberly	1 episode; as Tiio Horn
2016–2018	The Man in the High Castle	Gina	5 episodes; as Tiio Horn
2016–present	Letterkenny	Tanis	20 episodes: as Kaniehtiio Horn
2017	What Would Sal Do?	Nicole	6 episodes
2018	Ghost BFF	Tara	11 episodes: as Kaniehtiio Horn
2019	Wayne	Kyra	Episode: "No Priests"; as Tiio Horn
2019	Slasher	Coroner Lucie Cooper	Recurring role (season 3); 4 episodes; as Tiio Horn

2020. Barkskins. Mari

Video Games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Assassin's Creed III	Kaniehtí:io
2013	Defiance	Rynn

References

1. Horn, Kaniehtiio (August 4, 2018). "EP. 1 CWMM - Ma Takes On The Toronto Telegram". Coffee with My Ma (Podcast). 3 minutes in. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
2. "'I've always had an insane sense of humour': Eden Robinson and Kaniehtiio Horn on Canada Reads 2020". CBC Books. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
3. Horn, Kaniehtiio [@kaniehtiio] (July 19, 2014). "Gun yeh dee yo" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
4. Horn, Kaniehtiio (January 24, 2012). "Interview: 'The Theatre Bizarre' Female Serial Killer Kaniehtiio Horn On Vision Stains, Creepy Contacts And Playing Androgynous". Interviewed by Jason Coleman. Starpulse.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
5. Starkman, Randy (July 29, 1999). "From Oka battles to Pan Am glory". Toronto Star.
6. "Oka Crisis". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
7. "Pan Ams' Waneek Horn-Miller an Oka Crisis survivor | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
8. "Sisters Recall the Brutal Last Day of Oka Crisis". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
9. Winsa, Patty (July 10, 2015). "Pan Ams' Waneek Horn-Miller an Oka Crisis survivor". Toronto Star. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
10. Griffith, John (October 9, 2009). "Mohawk actress rooted in family and community". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
11. "Motion Picture Purgatory: Leslie, My Name Is Evil". Dread Central. June 4, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
12. Griffith, John (January 2, 2010). "Kaniehtiio Horn: Professional streak". Montreal Gazette.
13. Vlessing, Etan (July 15, 2010). "'18 to Life' picked up by CW". The Hollywood Reporter. Associated Press. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
14. Wilner, Norman (October 21, 2010). "A Flesh Offering". Now. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
15. Kratina, Al (August 5, 2011). "Fantasia 2011: The Theater Bizarre". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
16. Goldberg, Lesley (July 31, 2012). "'18 to Life' Alum to Play Romani Witch-Prostitute on Netflix's 'Hemlock Grove'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
17. "The Smoke Shack | National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI)". National Screen Institute. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
18. Dyrr, Kristen (May 7, 2013). "Watch the First Four Minutes of 'Defiance,' Episode 5". Yahoo! TV. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
19. Kristoffersen, Rob (October 30, 2013). "Supernatural 9.04 'Slumber Party'". CraveOnline. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
20. Cockrell, Garon (October 22, 2013). "DVD Review: Embrace Of The Vampire". Leavenworth Times. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
21. "Meet the Canada Reads 2020 contenders". CBC Books, January 22, 2020.
22. @kaniehtiio (31 October 2018). "Hey guys!! Check out this pilot #Wynter ! It will be showing tonight and tomorrow on APTN. I, for one, would like to make the series, so if you like supernatural + indigenous stories and themes tell whoever will listen u want more of Wynters world!!!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
23. https://www.facebook.com/aptntv/videos/vb.88781789916/130733631143451/
24. Vlessing, Etan (July 16, 2014). "Eric Dane, Kathleen Robertson Board Canadian Miniseries The Fixer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 24, 2015.

External links

• Kaniehtiio Horn on IMDb