Michael Greyeyes
Michael Joseph Charles Greyeyes (born 4 June 1967, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian First Nations (Plains Cree, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation) actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator. He was the first Indigenous boy to graduate from the National Ballet School of Canada (1984) and danced with The National Ballet of Canada and Eliot Feld's company before a leg injury led him to acting. He earned an MFA from Kent State University (2003) and is the founding artistic director of Signal Theatre. He won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for Blood Quantum (2019) and received Independent Spirit Award nominations for Wild Indian and Rutherford Falls. His film credits include Smoke Signals (1998), The New World (2005), Woman Walks Ahead (2018), Togo (2019), and Firestarter (2022). On television he is best known as Terry Tarbell in Rutherford Falls (2021–2022, 18 episodes) and has appeared in True Detective (S3), Fear the Walking Dead, I Know This Much Is True, and 1923. He is also the first Indigenous professor in the Department of Theatre at York University. He is married to ballet dancer Nancy Latoszewski; they have two children.
Wildhood
(Smokey)
Jimmy P.
(Allan)
Skipped Parts
(Hank Elkrunner)
The Minion
(Gray Eagle)
Race Against Time
(Johnny Black Eagle)
Dreamkeeper
(Thunder Spirit)
The King Tide
(Marlon)
The Lost Child
(Eddie)
Skinwalkers
(Dr.Stone)
Firestorm
(Andy)
Crazy Horse
(Crazy Horse)
Smoke Signals
(Junior Polatkin)
The New World
(Rupwew)
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
(Tokalah)
Dance Me Outside
(Gooch)
Woman Walks Ahead
(Sitting Bull)
40 Acres
(Galen)
Zig Zag
(Dale)
Big Bear
(Wandering Spirit)
Blood Quantum
(Traylor)
Wild Indian
(Michael/Makwa)
Togo
(Amituk)
Sunshine State
(Billy Trucks)
Geronimo
(Juh)
Rude
(Spirit Dancer)
Kissed by Lightning
(Jessie Lightning)
Passchendaele
(Highway)
Firestarter
(Rainbird)
Meadowlarks
(Anthony)
Sam's Circus
(Chief)
Cosmic Radio
Someone's Daughter
(Kent)
Telephone
Numb3rs
(Thomas Morris)
Charmed
(Bo Lightfeather)
Walker, Texas Ranger
(Brian Falcon)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
(Walks In The Night)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(Sonny Brightbill)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Eddie)
The Jury
Star Trek: Discovery
(Felix)
MythQuest
(Strong Bear)
True Women
(Tarantula)
Millennium
(Joe Reynard)
True Detective
(Brett Woodard)
Fear the Walking Dead
(Walker)
V Wars
(Jimmy Saint)
1923
(Hank)
I Know This Much Is True
(Ralph Drinkwater)
Rutherford Falls
(Terry Tarbell)
American Experience
(Tecumseh)
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
(Geronimo (voice))
The Magnificent Seven
(Imala)
The American Revolution
(Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice))
Dreamkeeper
(Thunder Spirit)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
(Shaman)
Cold Country
The Abandons
(Jack Cree)
