Michael Greyeyes
Acting
1967-06-04 · Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
Filmography
Cold Country
2027 · Series
TheatersSomeone's Daughter
2026 · Movie
The Abandons
2025 · Series
Meadowlarks
2025 · Movie
The American Revolution
2025 · Series
40 Acres
2025 · Movie
The Light Before the Sun
2024 · Movie
The King Tide
2024 · Movie
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2023 · Series
1923
2022 · Series
Wildhood
2022 · Movie
Firestarter
2022 · Movie
Wild Indian
2021 · Movie
Rutherford Falls
2021 · Series
I Know This Much Is True
2020 · Series
Togo
2019 · Movie
V Wars
2019 · Series
Blood Quantum
2019 · Movie
Woman Walks Ahead
2018 · Movie
Star Trek: Discovery
2017 · Series
Fear the Walking Dead
2015 · Series
True Detective
2014 · Series
Jimmy P.
2013 · Movie
Kissed by Lightning
2009 · Movie
Passchendaele
2008 · Movie
Cosmic Radio
2007 · Movie
The New World
2005 · Movie
Numb3rs
2005 · Series
The Jury
2004 · Series
Dreamkeeper
2003 · Movie
Dreamkeeper
2003 · Series
Skinwalkers
2002 · Movie
Sunshine State
2002 · Movie
Zig Zag
2002 · Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Sam's Circus
2001 · Movie
MythQuest
2001 · Series
The Lost Child
2000 · Movie
Race Against Time
2000 · Movie
Skipped Parts
2000 · Movie
Charmed
1998 · Series
The Minion
1998 · Movie
Smoke Signals
1998 · Movie
Big Bear
1998 · Movie
Firestorm
1998 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven
1998 · Series
True Women
1997 · Series
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
1997 · Movie
Millennium
1996 · Series
Crazy Horse
1996 · Movie
Rude
1995 · Movie
Dance Me Outside
1995 · Movie
Geronimo
1993 · Movie
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · Series
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993 · Series
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992 · Series
American Experience
1988 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Telephone
Movie