Lucy Tulugarjuk

Lucy Tulugarjuk (born February 28, 1975) is an Inuk Canadian actress, throat singer, and director. She is executive director for the Nunavut Independent Television Network. She is best known to international audiences for appearing in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Early life Tulugarjuk is from Igloolik, Nunavut.

Career Tulugarjuk is known for starring in the 2001 film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, for which she won the award for Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival. In 2015, she acted in the film Maliglutit.

In 2017 she directed her first feature-length film Tia and Piujuq . The film featured Marie-Hélène Cousineau as producer, and Tulugarjuk's daughter in the lead role as Piujuq.

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.

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. In 2016, she also called for the resignation of Aglukkaq's successor as MP, Hunter Tootoo.

Filmography As actress

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

Accolades Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2001 American Indian Film Festival Best Actress Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2023Toronto International Film FestivalAmplify Voices BIPOC Canadian First Feature AwardTautuktavuk (What We See)