Kaniehtiio Horn

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'''Kaniehtiio Horn''' (born 1985 or 1986), also known as '''Tiio Horn''', is a [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] actress, best known for her roles in the television film ''Moccasin Flats: Redemption'', and the films ''{{Wiki|The Trotsky}}'', ''{{Wiki|Leslie, My Name is Evil}}'' and ''{{Wiki|The Wild Hunt (film)|The Wild Hunt}}''.

In the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' series]], she voices and provides facial capture for [[Kaniehtí:io]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Kaniehtiio was born in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a Scottish-German father, and a Mohawk mother, {{Wiki|Kahn-Tineta Horn}}. She is a native of {{Wiki|Kahnawake}}, a Mohawk reserve outside of Montreal. Growing up with six older sisters, she split her time between the reserve and Ottawa, where her father lived.<ref>[http://www.starpulse.com/news/Jason_Coleman/2012/01/24/interview_the_theater_bizzare_female_s Starpulse] - Interview with Kaniehtiio Horn</ref>

Horn chose acting as her career at a young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager. She graduated from Dawson College in 2005 for theater arts, and appeared in a number of short films.<ref>[http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/artslife/story.html?id=4c71ad53-ccf8-40e3-8509-170cdf07a471 Ottawa Citizen] - Mohawk actress rooted in family and community</ref>

===Career===
Kaniehtiio's first acting credit was in 2006, for the CBC television mini-series ''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. Subsequently, she landed a role in the 2007 drama film ''The Colony''. In 2008, she appeared in the TV film ''Moccasin Flats: Redemption'', for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award, and in ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''.

In 2009, Horn starred in ''The Trotsky'', playing a Montreal high school student. She appeared in ''The Wild Hunt'', and in Reginald Harkema's ''Leslie, My Name Is Evil'', as a member of Charles Manson's death cult. The three Canadian films were selected for the prestigious ''Festival du Nouveau Cinéma''. ''The Trotsky'' and ''The Wild Hunt'' made the Top 10 Canadian films list at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.<ref name="Gazette">{{Wiki|Montreal Gazette}} - Kaniehtiio Horn: Professional streak</ref>

Horn starred in the CBC television sitcom ''18 to Life'' as Monica Bellow. Horn voiced several roles in ''By the Rapids'', an {{Wiki|Aboriginal Peoples Television Network|APTN}} cartoon she made in collaboration with friend Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare. She also shot an APTN television pilot, ''Escape Hatch'', with Mohawk writer and director Tracey Deer. In 2010, Horn worked in the film ''Good Neighbors''.<ref name="Gazette"/> She also starred in the low-budget slasher film ''A Flesh Offering'', playing an artist that gets lost in the woods.<ref>[http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=177298 Now magazine] - ''A Flesh Offering''</ref>

In 2011, Horn starred in the horror anthology film, The Theatre Bizarre,<ref>[http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/08/05/fantasia-2011-the-theater-bizarre/ Montreal Gazette] - Fantasia 2011: The Theater Bizarre</ref> and played a priestess in Immortals. In 2012, Horn joined the cast of the Netflix drama ''Hemlock Grove'' as Destina Rumaneck, a Gypsy witch-prostitute. She starred alongside Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Bill Skarsgard, Landon Liboiron and Lili Taylor in the original horror series.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hemlock-grove-netflix-tiio-horn-355974 The Hollywood Reporter]</ref>

==Trivia==
*Kaniehtiio shares her name with the character she voices, Kaniehtí:io.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503416/ Kaniehtiio Horn] at the Internet Movie Database.

==References==
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[[Category:Assassin's Creed III voice actors]]

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