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File No. 052529 · Adjudicated

Graham Greene

Actor — The Green Mile, Dances with Wolves, Die Hard with a Vengeance

Born

1952

Birthplace

SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Earned an Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves (1991) — one of the most celebrated Indigenous Canadian actors in Hollywood history, following Chief Dan George, the first Indigenous Canadian nominated, two decades earlier.

The verdict

Born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, this Oneida actor became one of Hollywood's most respected Indigenous performers, earning an Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves. From Stratford Shakespeare to Kevin Costner's frontier epic, he carved out a career representing First Nations people with dignity and power. Canada claims him proudly as one of our greatest cultural ambassadors.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable