Lucy Tulugarjuk
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Throat singer
Director
Lucy Tulugarjuk | |
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| Born | February 28, 1975 |
| Occupations | Actress Throat singer Director |
| Children | Nuvvija Mikili Tulugarjuk |
| Relatives | Madeline Ivalu (aunt)[1]
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Lucy Tulugarjuk (born February 28, 1975) is an Inuk Canadian actress, throat singer, and director.[2] She is executive director for the Nunavut Independent Television Network.[3] She is best known to international audiences for appearing in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).
Career
Tulugarjuk is known for starring in the 2001 film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner,[5] for which she won the award for Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival.[6] In 2015, she acted in the film Maliglutit.[7]
In 2017 she directed her first feature-length film Tia and Piujuq (Inuktitut: ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ).[8] The film featured Marie-Hélène Cousineau as producer, and Tulugarjuk's daughter in the lead role as Piujuq.[9]
With Carol Kunnuk she was co-director, co-writer and co-star of Tautuktavuk (What We See), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 and won the Amplify Voices Award for Best First Film.[10]
She performs as a throat singer, but in 2014 declined to perform for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in protest of the government's seismic testing.[5] That year, she wore seal skin at the Gone Wild show in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories to support Inuit culture.[11] In 2016, she also called for the resignation of Aglukkaq's successor as MP, Hunter Tootoo.[4]
She is executive director for Nunavut Independent Television Network, a service of Isuma based in Igloolik.[3] In 2021, Isuma launched Uvagut TV, a 24/7 online channel devoted to Inuktitut language programming, for which Tulugarjuk is managing director. Tulugarjuk reported that she sees the channel as "a tool for preserving and revitalizing the Inuit people's language and culture."[12]
Filmography
As actress
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Puja | |
| 2005 | L'iceberg | Nattikuttuk | |
| 2006 | The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Nuvvija | |
| 2007 | Issaittuq | Title translated as 'waterproof' | |
| 2013 | Maïna | Aasivak | |
| 2016 | Searchers | 'Maliglutit' in Ikutitut.[13] | |
| 2018 | Tia and Piujuq | Tarriagsuk Ansaana | |
| 2020 | Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Young Shaman | |
| 2023 | Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Uyarak | |
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Tapeesa | [14] |
As filmmaker
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Writer, casting director, makeup artist | Credited with writing the Inuktitut dialogue |
| 2018 | Tia and Piujuq | Director, writer | |
| 2019 | Restless River | Co-producer | |
| 2023 | Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Co-director, co-writer, actor | with Carol Kunnuk |
