Portrait of Tamara Podemski

Tamara Podemski

Acting

Biography

Tamara Podemski (born October 16, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress and writer. She is known for her supporting role as Alison Trent in the television series Coroner, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. Podemski was raised in Toronto where she attended Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. Her father is an Israeli Jew from Kfar Saba, and her mother is an Anishinaabe from the Muscowpetung band of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Her paternal grandparents were from Poland, and moved to Canada after World War II. Her sisters, Jennifer Podemski and Sarah Podemski are also actors. All three sisters appear together in the FX series Reservation Dogs.

Born: October 16, 1977

Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada

Filmography

2025
Blood Lines

as Pehmee

2025
Youngblood

as Ms. Mcgill

2025
Murderbot

as Bharadwaj

2024
2024
Fancy Dance

as Ricky

2023
2022
Monster High

as Coach Thunderbird (voice)

2022
Outer Range

as Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk

2022
The Legend of Vox Machina

as Uvenda (voice)

2021
Ghosts

as Dr. Long

2021
Unsettled

as Tara Wasnoday

2021
2020
Guest of Honour

as Detective Grove

2019
Coroner

as Alison Trent

2018
Never Saw It Coming

as Detective Rona Wedmore

2012
The Lesser Blessed

as Verna Sole

2008
New Amsterdam

as Young Lenape Woman

2007
Heartland

as April

2007
Four Sheets to the Wind

as Miri Smallhill

2006
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

as Deborah 'Chicky' Etienne

1996
The Rez

as Lucy Pegahmagabow

1995
Dance Me Outside

as Little Margaret