Kaniehtiio Horn
Horn in April 2018
Born	Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn Batt (1986-11-08)November 8, 1986 (age 38) Ottawa,Ontario, Canada
Other names	Tiio Horn
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2004–present
Children	2
Mother	Kahn-Tineta Horn
Relatives	Waneek Horn-Miller (half-sister)

Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn (néeBatt;^[1]Mohawk pronunciation:[ɡanjehˈdiːjo];^[1][2][3] born November 8, 1986), sometimes credited asTiio Horn,^[4] is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for aGemini Award for her role in the television filmMoccasin Flats: Redemption and she has appeared in the filmsThe Trotsky,Leslie, My Name Is Evil, andThe Wild Hunt, as well as the streaming television horror seriesHemlock Grove and the sitcoms18 to Life,Letterkenny andReservation Dogs.

Horn was born inOttawa and grew up in Ottawa and on theKahnawakeMohawk reserve outside ofMontreal.^[5] Her mother,Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a Mohawk former model and a political activist for theKahnawake First Nation. Her father, who is of German and Scottish descent, is a lawyer.^[5] Horn, her mother and her older half-sisterWaneek (later a broadcaster and co-captain of theCanadian women's water polo team at the2000 Sydney Olympics)^[6] were notable participants in the 1990Oka Crisis.^[7] Waneek was stabbed in the chest by a soldier wielding a bayonet while holding Horn, who was then aged four; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, symbolized the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.^{[8][9][6][10]}

Horn decided to be an actress at a young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager. She graduated fromDawson College in 2005 for theatre arts, and appeared in a number of short films.^[11]

Horn's first film acting credit was in 2006 for theCBC television mini-seriesIndian Summer: The Oka Crisis (for which she had been present at the real-life event sixteen years earlier).

Horn landed a role in the 2007 drama filmThe Colony, directed by Jeff Barnaby. In 2008, she appeared in the TV filmMoccasin Flats: Redemption and was nominated for aGemini Award for her role. She also appeared inJourney to the Center of the Earth that year, also starringBrendan Fraser.

In 2009, Horn starred inThe Trotsky, directed byJacob Tierney, playing a Montreal high school student. InWeb of Lies, a TV movie about a cybersecurity specialist accused of fraud, she played a hacker named Spider. She appeared inThe Wild Hunt, directed by Alexandre Franchi and in Reginald Harkema'sLeslie, My Name Is Evil as a member ofCharles Manson's death cult.^[12] The three Canadian films were selected for theFestival du Nouveau Cinéma.The Trotsky andThe Wild Hunt made the Top 10 Canadian films list at the 2009Toronto International Film Festival.^[13]

Horn starred in the CBC television sitcom18 to Life as Monica Bellow. The series was picked up by theCW network and it aired in the US in August 2010. Horn filmed a second season in Montreal in mid-2010.^[14]

Horn voiced several roles inBy the Rapids, anAPTN cartoon which she had made in collaboration with Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare. She also shot an APTNtelevision pilot,Escape Hatch, with Mohawk writer-directorTracey Deer. In 2010, Horn again worked with Jacob Tierney in the filmGood Neighbours.^[13] She starred in the low-budgetslasher filmA Flesh Offering, directed by Jeremy Torrie, playing an artist who gets lost in the woods.^[15]

In 2011, Horn starred in the horroranthology filmThe Theatre Bizarre,^[16] and played a priestess inImmortals. She filmedPenthouse North withMichelle Monaghan andMichael Keaton and shot a CBC comedypilot.^[5] In 2012, Horn joined the cast of theNetflix dramaHemlock Grove as Destiny Rumancek, a Romani witch. She starred oppositeFamke Janssen,Dougray Scott,Bill Skarsgård,Landon Liboiron andLili Taylor in the series.^[17]

Horn voiced the role of Kaniehtí:io, the Native American protagonist's (Ratohnhake:ton) Mohawk mother, in the 2012 video gameAssassin's Creed III, developed byUbisoft. That same year, she wrote and directed her debut film,The Smoke Shack, in association with theNational Screen Institute.^[18] In 2013, Horn played Rynn, an Irathient Spirit Rider, on theSyfy TV series,Defiance,^[19] and playedDorothy fromThe Wizard of Oz in "Slumber Party", an episode of the CW seriesSupernatural.^[20] She also appeared inEmbrace of the Vampire starring Sharon Hinnendael, a remake of the 1995horror film of the same name,^[21] in the television specialGavin Crawford's Wild West and in the Amazon seriesThe Man in the High Castle (TV Series).

Horn appeared in a recurring role as Tanis in the CraveTV seriesLetterkenny, for which she won theCanadian Screen Award forBest Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.^[22] Horn has also taken up the role of Consulting Producer on theLetterkenny spinoff showShoresy, where she was tasked with ensuring the faithful portrayal of the show's many Indigenous characters.^[23]

In 2020, Horn appeared as a panelist onCanada Reads advocating forEden Robinson's novelSon of a Trickster.^[24]

From 2021-2023, she played a recurring role asDeer Lady in the FX/Hulu showReservation Dogs.^[25]

In 2022, Horn appeared in a recurring role as Feather Day in season 2 of the Peacock series,Rutherford Falls.^[26]

Seeds, her debut film as a director, premiered in the Discovery program at the2024 Toronto International Film Festival,^[27] and was longlisted for the 2024Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.^[28]

She gave birth to a son via emergency C-section in November 2020.^[29]

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