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Lucy
Tulugarjuk

Photo: Lucy Tulugarjuk
Credit: Heidi Selzler
Lucy
Tulugarjuk

Medium:

film, literary arts, performance

Artistic Community:

Montreal, QC

Date of Birth:

Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.


1975

Work

Biography

Lucy Tulugarjuk is an actress, filmmaker, writer and throat singer. Originally from Iglulik, NU, she currently lives and works in Montreal, QC. She is well known for her starring role in the film Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001) as well as her work on Maïna (2001). Tulugarjuk made her directorial debut with the film Tia and Piujuq (2017), which she co-wrote as well as acted in. The film screened during the 2018 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Art Festival.View Long Biography and Citations

Publications

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Title Year Author
Mother Tongue Spring 2019 Lucy Tulugarjuk and Nuvvija Mikili Tulugarjuk
Spotlight: Circumpolar Indigenous Film at imagineNATIVE 2018 September 19, 2018 Inuit Art Quarterly
The Breathing Room Winter 2017 Jessica Kotierk

Achievements

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Achievement Year Organization
Best Actress Award 2002 American Indian Movie Awards

Performances

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Title Year Role
Indianer Inuit: Das Nordamerika Film Festival 2016 Throat Singer

Filmography

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Title Release Date Role
Tia and Piujuq 2017 Director, Co-wrote Script, Actor
Three Feathers 2016 Costume & Wardrobe
Maliglutit (Searchers) 2016 Actor