{"id":15614,"date":"2025-09-02T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:43:16","slug":"graham-greene-dies-oscar-nominated-dances-with-wolves-actor-was-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=15614","title":{"rendered":"Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated \u2018Dances With Wolves\u2019 Actor Was 73"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOURCE: DEADLINE www.deadline.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Greene<\/a>, a trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. The Oscar nominee from\u00a0Dances with Wolves<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,\u201d Greene\u2019s agent Michael Greene (no relation) said in a statement to Deadline. \u201cYou are finally free. Susan Smith is meeting you at the gates of heaven,\u201d he added, referencing the actor\u2019s longtime agent, who died in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene was born on June 22, 1952 in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve. He worked odd jobs before giving acting a go. Greene started on stage, and by the 1970s he was performing in Canadian and English professional theater productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made his screen debut in 1979 in an episode of the Canadian drama series The Great Detective<\/em>; his first movie was the 1983 Running Brave.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene\u2019s big breakthrough came several years later when Kevin Costner cast him as Kicking Bird (Zi?tk\u00e1 Nagw\u00e1ka), one the main characters in his 1990 Western Dances with Wolves<\/em>. The film landed 12 Academy Award nominations \u2014 including one for Greene as Best Supporting Actor \u2014 and won seven, including Best Picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dances with Wolves<\/em> launched Greene\u2019s Hollywood career. He went on to appear in such high-profile features as Maverick<\/em> (1994) with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, Die Hard with a Vengeance<\/em> (1995) with Bruce Willis, The Green Mile<\/em> (1999) with Tom Hanks, The Twilight Saga: New Moon <\/em>(2009) with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as well as Aaron Sorkin\u2019s Molly\u2019s Game <\/em>(2017) with Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Costner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham also had main roles in Thunderheart<\/em> (1992) opposite Val Kilmer, Transamerica<\/em> (2005) opposite Felicity Huffman, and Taylor Sheridan\u2019s Wind River<\/a><\/em> (2017) opposite Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheridan subsequently cast Greene in two of his series for Paramount+: 1883<\/em> and, most recently, Tulsa King.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene\u2019s TV series credits also include series regular roles on Wolf Lake, Defiance<\/em> and Marvel\u2019s Echo <\/em>and recurring stints on Northern Exposure, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Being Erica, Longmire, Goliath <\/em>and American Gods.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his Oscar nomination, Greene is a Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen Award winner and Independent Spirit nominee. He has a star on Canada\u2019s Walk of Fame and, earlier this year, received the Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Award in his native country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fittingly, one of Greene\u2019s final roles was on FX\u2019s acclaimed series Reservation Dogs,<\/em> which built on his legacy of breaking barriers for Indigenous talent in Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene, who worked until the end, has one upcoming movie in the can: thriller Ice Fall<\/em> starring Joel Kinnaman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Hilary Blackmore; daughter Lilly Lazare-Greene; and grandson Tarlo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOURCE: DEADLINE www.deadline.com Graham Greene, a trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. The Oscar nominee from\u00a0Dances with Wolves\u00a0was 73. \u201cHe was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,\u201d Greene\u2019s agent Michael… Read More »Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated \u2018Dances With Wolves\u2019 Actor Was 73<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}