Tamara Hope

Canadian actress and musician

Tamara Lindeman (born November 2, 1984), also known by the name Tamara Hope, is a Canadian actress and musician. Her starring roles include Guinevere Jones and The Nickel Children, as well as a recurring role on CTV's Whistler as Leah McLure. In her music career, in which she is credited as Tamara Lindeman, she has worked with the band Bruce Peninsula and has her own music project, The Weather Station.

Hope grew up in Ontario, Canada, in a family that has no other actors. Many of her relatives, including her father, are pilots. She lived in Dufferin County, and she sang in the Orangeville Choir from age 11. At age 12, she was part of the children's choir in the Donny Osmond–led production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Toronto's Elgin Theatre. She acted in the play Spring Planting at Theatre Orangeville at age 16. She enjoyed snowboarding, and as a teenager was a licensed snowboarding teacher.

Her professional acting began in 1999 with a role in The Audrey Hepburn Story, a made for television movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt which was filmed in Montreal. For her work in The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000), she won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama) in the category Supporting Young Actress. She had a lead role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Stepsister from Planet Weird. She then played Tilda Swinton's character's daughter in the film The Deep End. In the 2003 TV movie The Piano Man's Daughter, she portrayed a younger version of Stockard Channing's character. She was a regular cast member of Whistler in 2007, playing snowboarding champion Leah McLure (although she was not permitted to do her own stunts). In 2009, Hope was featured in the Modernista! ad campaign promoting the Palm Pre phone.

In addition to her acting career, Lindeman is active in the Toronto music scene, performing in Bruce Peninsula and leading her own band, The Weather Station. She was a nominee for the 2013 SOCAN Songwriting Prize for "Mule in the Flowers", a song she cowrote with Steve Lambke. She recorded Loyalty, her third full length album as The Weather Station, at La Frette studios in Paris, France with Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas and Robbie Lackritz, who has worked on albums with Bahamas, Feist, Zeus and Jason Collett. Loyalty was released on May 5, 2015, on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide) and Outside Music (Canada). The Weather Station album Ignorance was released on February 5, 2021. It was described as "a beguiling jazz folk opus with indie rock inclinations"

The Weather Station album Ignorance was #7 in the Pitchfork's listing of the best albums of 2021.

Year Title Role Notes1999Winslow Homer: An American OriginalFeeTV film2000ClaraTV film2000Stepsister from Planet WeirdAriel ColaTV film2000Carol WymanTV film2000Princess Elizabeth TudorTV film2000Twice in a LifetimeYoung Ruth Harper"Grandma's Shoes"2000 2002Soul FoodCallieRecurring role2001What Girls LearnElizabethTV film2002Guinevere JonesGwen Jones/Queen GuinevereLead role2002TrackerTina"Children of the Night"2003Lilly Kilworth (12–14 years)TV film2003Shattered City: The Halifax ExplosionBeatrix CollinsTV film2004Prom Queen: The Marc Hall StoryCarlyTV film2004Kevin HillLaura Walker"Homework"2005Selling InnocenceChelsea BurnsTV film2005MaydayLinda FarleyTV film2006Augusta, GoneRainTV film200610.5: ApocalypseAmy HollisterTV miniseries2007Lies and CrimesKirstenTV film2007ReGenesisJulie Henshaw"A Spontaneous Moment", "Dust in the Wind"2007WhistlerLeah HuttonRecurring role2008Murdoch MysteriesEdna Garrison"Power"2009Sand SerpentsJan HenleTV film2009MansonLinda KasabianTV film2011Covert AffairsEmerson"Bang and Blame"2011Three InchesCateTV film2012Good GodBeckyRecurring role2012Beauty and the BeastEmily"Pilot"2014Transporter: The SeriesAlice"Sixteen Hands"2014 2015Murdoch MysteriesEdna BrooksRecurring role