Lucy Tulugarjuk


Lucy Tulugarjuk is an Inuit actress and throat singer. She is from Igloolik, Nunavut and is known for starring in the 2001 film , for which she won the award for Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival. In 2015, she acted in the film Maliglutit. In 2017 she directed her first feature length film Tia and Piujiq ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ. Tia and Piujiq was produced by Marie-Hélèn Cousineau.
She performs as a throat singer, but in 2014 declined to perform for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in protest of the government's seismic testing. That year, she wore seal skin at the Gone Wild show in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories to support Inuit culture. In 2016, she also called for the resignation of Aglukkaq's successor as MP, Hunter Tootoo.