
Tamara Podemski (born October 16, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress and writer. She is known for her supporting role as Alison Trent in the television series Coroner, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. Podemski was raised in Toronto where she attended Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts.
Her father is an Israeli Jew from Kfar Saba, and her mother is an Anishinaabe from the Muscowpetung band of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Her paternal grandparents were from Poland, and moved to Canada after World War II. Her sisters, Jennifer Podemski and Sarah Podemski are also actors. All three sisters appear together in the FX series Reservation Dogs.
Blood Lines
Pehmee
2025

Murderbot
Bharadwaj · (10 episodes)
2025

The Light Before the Sun
Amanda Wolf
2024

Fancy Dance
Ricky
2024

Essex County
Joy · (1 episode)
2023

Monster High
Coach Thunderbird (voice) · (2 episodes)
2022

Outer Range
Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk · (15 episodes)
2022

The Legend of Vox Machina
Uvenda (voice) · (1 episode)
2022

Ghosts
Dr. Long · (1 episode)
2021

Unsettled
Tara Wasnoday · (10 episodes)
2021

Reservation Dogs
Teenie · (1 episode)
2021

Guest of Honour
Detective Grove
2020

Coroner
Alison Trent · (17 episodes)
2019

Never Saw It Coming
Detective Rona Wedmore
2018

The Lesser Blessed
Verna Sole
2012

New Amsterdam
Young Lenape Woman · (1 episode)
2008

Heartland
April · (1 episode)
2007

Four Sheets to the Wind
Miri Smallhill
2007

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
Deborah 'Chicky' Etienne · (2 episodes)
2006

Another Country: A North of 60 Mystery
Jane Crowe
2003
Johnny Greyeyes
Rox
2000

The Rez
Lucy Pegahmagabow · (13 episodes)
1996

Dance Me Outside
Little Margaret
1995
The Borderline
(1 episode)