ANNA
LAMBE

Anna Lambe is an Inuk actor from Iqaluit, Nunavut. Her first film role was Spring in Miranda de Pencier’s The Grizzlies, a 2018 film released theatrically in 2019. The production filmed in Iqaluit and drew on the story of a lacrosse team in Kugluktuk. Lambe received a 2019 Canadian Screen Award nomination for supporting actress. It was a beginning rooted in a particular place and community, with a young ensemble at the centre of the film.

Trickster (2020) brought her to television as Sarah. Adapted from Eden Robinson’s novel Son of a Trickster, the series places its characters in a world where ordinary pressures and the supernatural meet. For a performer, that combination makes the everyday relationships especially useful: the fantastic elements need people whose responses still feel recognizable. Sarah offers another route into Lambe’s early work beyond the sporting ensemble of her debut.

She later appeared as Kayla Prior in True Detective: Night Country (2024). Within the crime drama, Kayla’s family relationship creates a view of what police work asks of the people around an investigator. The role is a useful contrast to her later comedy: a scene can hold tension through frustration and the effort to be heard, even when it takes place away from the central investigation.

North of North, which began in 2025, places Lambe at the centre as Siaja, a young Inuk mother trying to change her life in the fictional Arctic community of Ice Cove. Co-creators Stacey Aglok-MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril build the comedy around a place where personal choices quickly become everyone’s business. Siaja gives Lambe room to be impulsive, embarrassed and ambitious within the same story. Following that shifting rhythm is part of the pleasure: a person trying to start again still has to live among the people who remember what came before.