Graham Greene Biography

Name: Graham Greene, CM Birth Date: June 22, 1952 Birth Place: Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada Family: Hilary Blackmore (spouse) Years Active: 1979 - present
Graham Greene is a Canadian First Nations actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, who is best known for his work in The Green Mile, Wind River and Dances with Wolves.
Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was a paramedic and maintenance man. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, as a young adult. His first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he worked as an audio technician for rock bands based in Newfoundland and Labrador, when he went by the alias "Mabes". One of his co-workers encouraged him to try out the art. Greene was indifferent to the idea, until losing a game of cards to which he put his future career on the line. He graduated from the Toronto-based Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974, started landing small roles in television, film and radio, and soon after he began performing in professional theater in Toronto and England. Greene returned to Canada in the mid-1980s where he picked up his first major feature film credit, the historical epic, Revolution, opposite Al Pacino. Five years later, he landed the role of Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990). The part not only provided him with major exposure around the world, it garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. With the door to the acting world wide open, Greene took advantage taking major roles in films like Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995),Camille (1995), and The Green Mile (1999). Greene has also made a significant contribution to the small screen with regular gigs on the series The Red Green Show, Northern Exposure, Lonesome Dove: The Series, The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, Wolf Lake and narrating the Discovery Channel's Exhibit A series. He also appeared as the sole survivor of a pre-WW1 Indian tribe in the telefilm, The Last of His Tribein 1992. Lately Greene went on to star in projects such as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), the drama Winter's Tale (2014) with Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe, and The Shack (2017) with Sam Worthington. His latest role is in the film Molly's Game (2017).
ACTOR 154 WORKS - TBA SOUNDTRACK Transamerica (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer" - uncredited) AWARDS Gemini Earle Grey's Award - 2004 - Winner Gemini Awards - 3 times - Nominated Tokyo International Film Festival - 2002 - Winner (Best Actor) Academy Award  - 1990 - Nominated (Best Supporting Actor)
His reservation is home to Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora peoples who unified during the American Revolution, making them one of the largest bands in Canada with more than 25,000 members. He was awarded a Honorary Doctor of Law degree in June 2008, from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, close to the Oneida reserve where he is from. In 1992, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, one of the nation's pre-eminent museums dedicated to the culture of Native Americans. Played a character named James Clearwater on the show Numb3rs in 2005 and then played Harry Clearwater in Twilight: New Moon in 2009. When asked by George Stroumboulopoulos if he believes he has been typecast, he answered: "I've played all kinds of things. I played an old Jewish man in a furniture store in theater, I played the ghost of a black transvestite... I've played British soldiers, I've played French soldiers, I've played New York cops, I've played lawyers, so... no".