Greene worked for many years as a supporting actor on stage and screen, landing bit parts in such TV movies as the CBC production Riel. Later that same year, a small theatre group in Toronto invited him to join them, and he made his first appearance on stage. He was largely indifferent to the idea until a friend challenged him to a bet – they cut a deck of cards Greene lost, and was off to acting classes at The Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s Native Theatre School, from which he graduated in 1974. In the early seventies, while working as a roadie and sound engineer for rock bands, Greene was encouraged by his colleagues to pursue acting. At eighteen, he took a welding course at George Brown College in Toronto and got a job in Hamilton making railroad cars. Though he was a good student and has described his childhood as pleasant, Greene dropped out of school when he was sixteen and moved on his own to Rochester, New York, where he worked in a warehouse. A poised, low-key character actor with an open, inquisitive face and an uncommon intensity, Graham Greene has contributed strong performances to numerous films in Canada and the United States and has appeared in many television series, but is perhaps best known for his Academy Award®-nominated performance in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves (1990).
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