Like the character she portrays in The Snow Walker, she is an Inuit
throat singer and can fish, hunt seal and walrus, and make clothing out
of caribou hides.
Raised in Igloolik, a village of 1600 in Nunavut (once the eastern half
of the Northwest Territories), Canada. Since starring in The Snow
Walker, has moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her first language is Inuktitut.
Was approached by a casting agent about auditioning for The Snow Walker
while at a dance with some friends in Igloolik.