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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-06-04

Place of Birth

Nova Scotia, Canada

Michael Greyeyes

Biography

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.

Known for

True Detective

True Detective

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.

Charmed

Charmed

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

American Experience

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Numb3rs

Numb3rs

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

Fear the Walking Dead

Fear the Walking Dead

What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

Walker, Texas Ranger

Walker, Texas Ranger

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

1923

1923

Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Millennium

Millennium

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Set in 1920s Shanghai, ten-year-old Sam and 12-year-old Elle return the Mogwai Gizmo back home to the lush and perilous Valley of Jade.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which is a remake of the Japanese film Seven Samurai. It aired between 1998 and 2000. It was filmed in Newhall, California. The pilot, scripted by Chris Black and Frank Q. Dobbs, was filmed in Mescal, Arizona and the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, near Tombstone. Robert Vaughn, who had starred in the original 1960 movie, frequently guest-starred as a crusading judge.

I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True

The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.