Lorne Cardinal facts for kids

Lorne Cardinal (born January 6, 1964) is a talented Canadian actor and director. He has won a Gemini Award, which is a big award for TV in Canada! He is most famous for playing Sergeant Davis Quinton on the funny TV show Corner Gas.

Lorne Cardinal's Early Life

Lorne grew up on a reserve near Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta. He went to school there as a child. In 1993, he earned a special degree in acting from the University of Alberta. He was the very first Indigenous student to get this degree from the university.

Lorne also loves rugby union. He played for two different rugby teams in Edmonton. He was the first Indigenous person to play for the Strathcona Druids team. If you watch Corner Gas, you might notice his character, Davis Quinton, sometimes wears clothes from a rugby team called the Saskatchewan Prairie Fire.

Lorne Cardinal's Acting Career

Lorne Cardinal has played many different characters in plays, movies, and TV shows. Some of his early roles were in Insomnia, renegadepress.com, and Crazy Horse.

Lorne is from the Cree people, and he often plays Indigenous characters. For example, he played Tecumseh in Canada: A People's History and an elder in Tkaronto. On Corner Gas, his character Davis Quinton is also a Cree man. He also appeared in many episodes of North of 60. You can hear his voice as Jacob Morin in the animated show Wapos Bay: The Series on APTN.

In 2011, Lorne starred in a play called Thunderstick with another actor, Craig Lauzon. They even switched roles on different nights!

Lorne also made a documentary film in 2016 called Chasing Lear with producer Monique Hurteau. It was shown on APTN. Chasing Lear is about a special play called King Lear that had an all-Indigenous cast. Lorne helped direct the play and also acted in it as the Duke of Albany.

More recently, he was in a short film called 'No Reservations', which won awards. This film was about pipeline politics. Since 2020, Lorne has also had a role in the TV show FBI: Most Wanted.

Lorne Cardinal's Personal Life

Lorne Cardinal lives in Squamish, on the coast of British Columbia. He lives there with his wife, Monique Hurteau, who is a producer, writer, and comedian. Lorne has eight other brothers and sisters who live in different parts of Canada. His brother Lewis is a business consultant and works to protect human rights in Edmonton.

Lorne Cardinal's Filmography

This is a list of some of the movies and TV shows Lorne Cardinal has been in.

Film Roles

Television Roles

Awards and Nominations

Lorne Cardinal has won and been nominated for several awards for his acting.

See also

• Indigenous Canadian personalities