Tonantzin Carmelo

Tonantzin Carmelo


in Orange County, California, United States
Tonantzín Carmelo is an American actress descending on her mother’s side from Tongva and Kumeyaay Native Americans of Southern California. She is known for her acting roles in film, TV and stage productions including in the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Into the West, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Movies for Tonantzin Carmelo...

The Windigo
Title: The Windigo
Character: Claire
Released: January 12, 2024
Type: Movie
A Native American teen resurrects an ancient demon to protect his family from meth dealers, but finds the creature's bloodlust uncontrollable, forcing the family to break the curse before becoming its next victims.
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Title: The English
Character: Touching Ground
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: TV
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
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The Sacrifice Zone
Title: The Sacrifice Zone
Released: May 16, 2022
Type: Movie
During the 1973 occupation at Wounded Knee, two activists, Marvin and Bud "One Bull", are arrested and thrown in jail. Filled with righteous indignation, Bud fights with his captors while Marvin, is mourning his wife, Anna Ward, who died in a car accident months earlier. Claire Chapman, a young lawyer assigned to defend Bud and Marvin, investigates. The three of them will discover their case is part of a massive conspiracy involving the federal government and big business. Meanwhile, in jail, an advisor from the Nixon Administration, a sitting Senator, and even a famous Hollywood actor visit Marvin and Bud. What secret was Anna Ward hiding before she died? What do the activists know?
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Mosquito
Title: Mosquito
Character: Mrs. Sault
Released: May 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.
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Title: La Brea
Character: Paara
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: TV
An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
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A Soldier's Revenge
Title: A Soldier's Revenge
Character: Alpana
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother, Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
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Title: Undone
Character: Tonantzin
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: TV
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
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Title: The Chosen One
Character: Dr. Lúcia Santiero
Released: June 28, 2019
Type: TV
Determined to bring a Zika vaccine to the remote Pantanal, three doctors clash with a faith healer and are pulled deeper into the mysteries of his cult.
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Title: The Rookie
Character: Detective Soledad Ramirez
Released: October 16, 2018
Type: TV
Starting over isn’t easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force’s oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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Child of Grace
Title: Child of Grace
Character: Kaya
Released: September 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Katie Johnson, a 9-year-old girl, has spent her entire life traveling across America in an RV with her father. At one of their stops, she finds a picture of herself on a missing child poster and realizes her father may actually be a kidnapper.
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Entertainment
Title: Entertainment
Character: Teresa
Released: August 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.
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Title: Z Nation
Character: Kuruk
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: TV
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
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The Activist
Title: The Activist
Character: Anna Ward
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
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Shouting Secrets
Title: Shouting Secrets
Character: Caitlyn
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
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Title: Teen Wolf
Character: Dark Night
Released: June 5, 2011
Type: TV
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.
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Shadowheart
Title: Shadowheart
Character: Miakoda
Released: August 4, 2009
Type: Movie
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.
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Unearthed
Title: Unearthed
Character: Nodin
Released: June 27, 2008
Type: Movie
In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.
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Imprint
Title: Imprint
Character: Shayla Stonefeather
Released: July 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
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Title: Into the West
Character: Thunder Heart Woman
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: TV
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Sooleawa'uha (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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187 Shadow Lane
Title: 187 Shadow Lane
Character: Christina
Released: May 22, 2003
Type: Movie
A gangster seeking a way out and a lonely old man in search of redemption face their troubled pasts together in this explosive tale of self-discovery. Miguel (Danny Romo) invites gangster Abraham (Robert Zepeda) to his ranch in hopes that he can get the kid on the straight and narrow while training him as a fighter. But Abraham's gang tracks him down and Miguel's dark secrets are revealed, culminating in a life-altering confrontation for both.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Adrienne Veston
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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The Legend of Hohokam
Title: The Legend of Hohokam
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in the 15th century comes an supercharged action packed romantic character driven story of the Hohokam tribe and what may have happened to them