Born 73 years ago in Ontario in the reserve of the six nations, within a family of the Oneida nation, the Canadian Graham Greene built, against prognosis, a notable career as an actor, first in theater and later in cinema and television. His greatest success was his incarnation of Ave that kicks, Kevin Costner’s sioux friend, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Considered a whole celebrity in Canada, where he has a star on the Paseo de la Fama, he died after a long illness in a hospital in Toronto. “With deep sadness we communicated the quiet death of the award -winning and legendary Canadian actor, Graham Greene,” his agent, Gerry Jordan, announced Monday.
Greene worked as a sound technician before making the leap to the interpretation. That first turn to the theater, as he remembered in an interview, happened in the seventies in the United Kingdom. During the next decade he continued working mainly on the British and Canadian scenarios. His television debut was in 1979 and cinematographic in 1983, in an episode of the series The great detective and at the biopic The brave corridorrespectively.
In 1990 the interpreter conquered Hollywood thanks to his interpretation of Ave that kicks, The tribe member who becomes a friend of Lieutenant John J. Dunbar in the Kevin Costner movie Dancing with wolves. That role earned an Oscar nomination (the film finally took seven statuettes). Then their work arrived in Thunder heart (1992), Maverick (1994), The saga Twilight (2009), or in Wild wind (2017).
Recently, he had participated in the HBO series The Last of Us and in 1883 and King Tulsa de . There are other projects in which it has participated in recent years.
Among other distinctions, Greene won Grammy and Gemini awards, and several medals of the Canadian government.
