Michael Greyeyes

Acting · Directing

Born June 4, 1967, 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
• 2026Someone's Daughter
• 202540 Acres — Galen
• 2025Meadowlarks — Anthony
• The Abandons — Jack Cree
• The American Revolution — Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice)
• 2024The King Tide — Marlon
• 2024The Light Before the Sun — Director
• Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai — Geronimo (voice)
• 1923 — Hank
• 2022Firestarter — Rainbird
• 2022Wildhood — Smokey
• Rutherford Falls — Terry Tarbell
• 2021Wild Indian — Michael/Makwa
• I Know This Much Is True — Ralph Drinkwater
• 2019Blood Quantum — Traylor
• 2019Togo — Amituk
• V Wars — Jimmy Saint
• 2018Woman Walks Ahead — Sitting Bull
• Star Trek: Discovery — Felix
• Fear the Walking Dead — Walker
• True Detective — Brett Woodard
• 2013Jimmy P. — Allan
• 2009Kissed by Lightning — Jessie Lightning
• 2008Passchendaele — Highway
• 2007Cosmic Radio
• Numb3rs — Thomas Morris
• 2005The New World — Rupwew
• The Jury
• 2003Dreamkeeper — Thunder Spirit
• Dreamkeeper — Thunder Spirit
• 2002Skinwalkers — Dr.Stone
• 2002Sunshine State — Billy Trucks
• 2002Zig Zag — Dale
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Sonny Brightbill
• MythQuest — Strong Bear
• 2001Sam's Circus — Chief
• 2000Race Against Time — Johnny Black Eagle
• 2000Skipped Parts — Hank Elkrunner
• 2000The Lost Child — Eddie
• 1998Big Bear — Wandering Spirit
• Charmed — Bo Lightfeather
• 1998Firestorm — Andy
• 1998Smoke Signals — Junior Polatkin
• The Magnificent Seven — Imala
• 1998The Minion — Gray Eagle
• 1997Stolen Women, Captured Hearts — Tokalah
• True Women — Tarantula
• 1996Crazy Horse — Crazy Horse
• Millennium — Joe Reynard
• 1995Dance Me Outside — Gooch
• 1995Rude — Spirit Dancer
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — Walks In The Night
• 1993Geronimo — Juh
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Brian Falcon
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? — Shaman
• American Experience — Tecumseh
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Eddie