As Leonard Quinhagak on Northern Exposure he portrayed a shaman that helped care for the residents. In the early 1990s he found guest-star work several television series. The show was one of the first to show aboriginal life and the interactions between the native and white cultures. In 19, Greene appeared in the First Nations' CBC TV series Spirit Bay as Pete 'Baba' Green. In 2007, he appeared as Shylock in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of The Merchant of Venice as well as Breakfast with Scot. He has also performed in The Crackwalker and History of the Village of the Small Huts. Greene frequently worked at the Native Earth Performing Arts, and is well known for his performance in Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing as the affable drunk Pierre St. On viewing his first television role, Greene stated that it was 'awful', and that it prompted him to start learning to act as a profession. His television debut was in an episode of The Great Detective in 1979, and his screen debut was in 1983 in Running Brave. By the 1970s he began performing in professional theatre in Toronto and England and in 1976 he participated in the University of Western Ontario's touring workshop performance of James Reaney's Wacousta. As he noted in a 2012 interview, he 'helped run it, as executive director of a school-supporting local arts organization'. Ī common misconception is that he graduated from the Toronto-based Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program. If you win, I’ll do the damn thing.' After drawing a two of clubs, he relented. According to Greene, musician Kelly Jay repeatedly pestered him to try out for a play.

His first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he worked as an audio technician for rock bands based in Newfoundland and Labrador, when he went by the alias 'Mabes'. If I'm going to be looking for work, I'd rather be acting'. '.I was a welder because once you put your helmet down and struck the arc.they wouldn't bother you.And there was a fear of getting laid off when the contract runs out. Before moving into acting, he worked as a draftsman, steelworker and welder.

He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, as a young man. Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was a paramedic and maintenance man.

Other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), Wind River (2017) and Shadow Wolves (2019). He has achieved international fame for participating in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Graham Greene, CM (born June 22, 1952) is an Indigenous Canadian actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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