Horn, Kaniehtí:io, 1986- : Kaniehtí:io Horn (b. November 8, 1986 -) is a Canadian actress. (Kaniehtí:io means "beautiful snow".) She is often credited as Tiio Horn. She is a member of the Bear Clan of Kahnawake.
Horn graduated from Dawson College in 2015 in Theatre Arts. Horn's first film acting credit was in 2006 for the CBC television miniseries Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis. Horn was present at the 1990 Oka Crisis at the age of four with her mother and 14-year-old sister. Her sister, Waneek, was stabbed in the chest by a soldier's bayonet while holding Horn; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, came to symbolize the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.
Horn landed a role in the 2007 drama film The Colony, directed by Jeff Barnaby. In 2008, she appeared in the TV film Moccasin Flats: Redemption, and was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role. She also appeared in Journey to the Center of the Earth that year, starring Brendan Fraser.
In 2009, Horn starred in The Trotsky, directed by Jacob Tierney, playing a Montreal high school student. In Web of Lies, a TV movie about a cybersecurity specialist accused of fraud, she played a hacker called Spider. She appeared in The Wild Hunt, directed by Alexandre Franchi and in Reginald Harkema's Leslie, My Name Is Evil, as a member of Charles Manson's death cult.
Horn starred in the CBC television sitcom 18 to Life as Monica Bellow. The series was picked up by the CW network and aired in the U.S., beginning in August 2010. Horn filmed a second season in Montreal in mid-2010.
Horn voiced several roles in By the Rapids, an APTN cartoon she made in collaboration with friend Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare. She also shot an APTN television pilot, Escape Hatch, with Mohawk writer-director Tracey Deer. In 2010, Horn again worked with director Jacob Tierney in the film Notre Dame de Grâce.
In 2011, Horn starred in the horror anthology film The Theatre Bizarre, and played a priestess in Immortals. In 2012, Horn joined the cast of the Netflix drama Hemlock Grove as Destiny Rumancek. She starred alongside Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron and Lili Taylor in the original supernatural series.
Horn voiced the role of Kaniehtí:io, the Native American protagonist's (Ratohnhake:ton) Mohawk mother, in the 2012 video game, Assassin's Creed III, developed by Ubisoft. She wrote and directed her debut film that year, The Smoke Shack, in association with the National Screen Institute. In 2013, Horn played Rynn, an Irathient Spirit Rider, on the Syfy TV series, Defiance, and played Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz in "Slumber Party", an episode of the CW series Supernatural. She also appeared in Embrace of the Vampire starring Sharon Hinnendael, a remake of the 1995 horror film of the same name, in the television special Gavin Crawford's Wild West and in the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle.
In 2017-2018, she created Coffee with my Ma, a podcast that places the audience at the kitchen table with her and her mom, Kahentinéhtha' Horn. She currently has a recurring role as Tanis in the CraveTV acclaimed series Letterkenny and recently defended Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson on CBC Canada Reads 2020.
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