Michael Greyeyes Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the First Americans in the Arts Award for outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role in a TV movie/special for "The Lost Child" in 2001
• Trained as a dancer from a very young age, starting with classical Western dance and moving on to ballet, tap, and jazz
• His first role was on the 1993 biographical film "Geronimo․"
• Was accepted to the National Ballet School in Toronto at the age of 10
• Quote: "Creativity is something you have to harness, you have to be open to it so that ideas come․ It is about combining, it is about remixing things, but in the end it is about ordering them․ It is about shaping them․"
• Wrote, choreographed and appeared in an episode of "Dancing with Spirit" in 2007
• Best known for playing Rupwew in "The New World" and Highway in "Passchendaele․"
• He is a Plains Cree from the Muskeg Lake First Nation in Canada
• Was the voice of Tommy Hawk as well as several minor characters in the 2006 video game "Prey․"