Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73

"Greene was born in 1952 in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. He fell into acting while working as a recording engineer, after a friend persuaded him to read his script. He started on stage, performing in Canadian and English productions in the 1970s, before making his screen debut in 1979 in an episode of the Canadian drama The Great Detective. His first film role was in the 1983 biopic Running Brave."

"Greene's Hollywood breakthrough came when Kevin Costner cast him as real-life Lakota Sioux medicine man Kicking Bird (Zitka Nagwaka) in his Academy Award-winning 1990 western Dances with Wolves. Greene's performance landed him an Academy Award nomination and launched his Hollywood career, which included roles in Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)."

"More recently, Greene appeared in Taika Waititi's FX series Reservation Dogs, HBO's dystopian series The Last Of Us and Taylor Sheridan's series 1883 and Tulsa King. Prolific across his career, he worked until the end, with multiple projects yet to be released. Greene won Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen awards across his career and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. In June he received the Canadian governor general's performing arts award for lifetime achievement."

Graham Greene was born in 1952 in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. He shifted from recording engineering into acting after a friend persuaded him to read a script, then worked on stage before screen debut in 1979 and first film in 1983. His breakthrough came with Kevin Costner's 1990 Dances with Wolves, earning an Academy Award nomination. His career spanned major film roles and recent television appearances including Reservation Dogs and The Last Of Us. He won Grammy, Gemini and Canadian Screen awards, earned a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and received the governor general's performing arts lifetime achievement award. He died aged 73 in Toronto after a long illness.

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