Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn (Mohawk pronunciation:
[É¡anjehˈdiË jo]; née Batt; born November 8, 1986), sometimes
referred to as Tiio Horn, is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for
a Gemini Award for her role in the television film Moccasin Flats:
Redemption and has appeared in the films The Trotsky, Leslie, My Name
Is Evil, and The Wild Hunt, as well as the web horror series Hemlock
Grove and the sitcoms 18 to Life and Letterkenny.Horn was born in
Ottawa and grew up both in Ottawa and on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve
outside of Montreal. Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a Mohawk former
model and a political activist for the Kahnawake First Nation. Her
father, who is of German and Scottish descent, is a lawyer. Horn, her
mother, and her older sister Waneek (later a broadcaster and
co-captain of the Canadian women's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney
Olympics) were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis. 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.Horn decided to be an actress at a
young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager.
She graduated from Dawson College in 2005 for theatre arts, and
appeared in a number of short films.Horn's first film acting credit
was in 2006 for the CBC television mini-series Indian Summer: The Oka
Crisis (for which she had been present at the real-life event sixteen
years earlier).
[É¡anjehˈdiË jo]; née Batt; born November 8, 1986), sometimes
referred to as Tiio Horn, is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for
a Gemini Award for her role in the television film Moccasin Flats:
Redemption and has appeared in the films The Trotsky, Leslie, My Name
Is Evil, and The Wild Hunt, as well as the web horror series Hemlock
Grove and the sitcoms 18 to Life and Letterkenny.Horn was born in
Ottawa and grew up both in Ottawa and on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve
outside of Montreal. Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a Mohawk former
model and a political activist for the Kahnawake First Nation. Her
father, who is of German and Scottish descent, is a lawyer. Horn, her
mother, and her older sister Waneek (later a broadcaster and
co-captain of the Canadian women's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney
Olympics) were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis. 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.Horn decided to be an actress at a
young age, but concentrated on swimming and water polo as a teenager.
She graduated from Dawson College in 2005 for theatre arts, and
appeared in a number of short films.Horn's first film acting credit
was in 2006 for the CBC television mini-series Indian Summer: The Oka
Crisis (for which she had been present at the real-life event sixteen
years earlier).
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