Lions Gate Films presents

 

LOST AND DELIRIOUS

 

 

A FILM BY
Léa Pool

 

 

Starring
Piper Perabo
Jessica Paré
Mischa Barton
Jackie Burroughs
Graham Greene

 

 

 

 

 

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Lost & Delirious

 

 

Lost and Delirious

 

CAST

 

Pauline Oster………………………………………………………………...…… Piper Perabo

Victoria Moller……………………………………………………………………..Jessica Pare

Mary Bradford……………………………………………………………….…..Mischa Barton

Faye Vaughn…………………………………………………..………...……..Jackie Burroughs

Joseph Menzies…………………………………………………….…….…..….Graham Greene

Eleanor Bannet…………………………………………………..……………….…Mimi Kuzyk

Jake………………………………………………………………………….………Luke Kirby

Kara…………………………………………………..…………………….Caroline Dhavernas

Cordelia…………………………………………………………………..………..Amy Stewart

Morley Bradford………………………………………………………………...….Noel Burton

 

 

 

 

FILMMAKERS

 

Directed by……………………………………………………………………………..Lea Pool

Screenplay by…………………………………………………….....…………..Judith Thompson

Based on a novel by……………………………………………..…..……………….Susan Swan

Produced by………………...........….Lorraine Richard, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Greg Dummett

Directory of Photography……....…………………………………………...…………..Pierre Gill

Production Designer…………...……………………………………………………Serge Bureau

Editor………………………..………………………………………...…………….Gaetan Huot

Composer……………………………...………………………………...……Yves Chamberland

Costume Designer……………………………......………………………………….Aline Gilmore

Make-up Artist………………………………….....…………………………….…..Diane Simard

Hair Stylist…………………………………………......……………..……………Réjean Goderre

 

 

 

 

Lost & Delirious

 

 

 

ABOUT THE FILM

 

"For the last 20 years, I have directed films that I have personally initiated and wrote. All these films were French language productions. Following the completion of my recent production EMPORTE-MOI, I thought it was necessary as an artist to expand my universe."

Lost and Delirious has proven to be the ideal film to further explore and expand themes that are of critical interest to myself. The themes of adolescence, homosexuality and the quest for true love were perfectly executed by the novelist Susan Swan and the screenplay writer, Judith Thompson.

Lost and Delirious truly represents the ideal marriage between my vision and the vision of the writers and actors.

Léa Pool

 

  

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SYNOPSIS

 

“I felt like a tiny grey mouse heading straight for the mouth of a cat”

Mouse Bradford has just arrived at Perkins Girls College. She has left behind the small town where she grew up, her father and her stepmother. Mouse is quickly adopted by her two senior roommates, the striking, sharp-witted Paulie and the charming and beautiful Tory. These three bond over loss. Mouse has lost her mother, Paulie lost the parents who gave her up for adoption and Tory is losing herself to fit her parents’ expectations. They become inseparable.

Although they are the closest friends Mouse has ever had, she is still confused by the depth of the relationship between Paulie and Tory.

This world comes crashing down when Tory and Paulie are inadvertently caught in a compromising situation. Unable to justify their relationship to her family, Tory gives in to the pressure and distances herself from Paulie and her own feelings. Defiantly refusing to submit, Paulie struggles to keep Tory. Mouse is left torn between her friends.

A haunting connection with the falcon she rescued begins to cloud Paulie’s mind. When Tory gives in to a boy’s infatuation to prove she is normal, it drives Paulie to strike out with dramatic consequences.

Lost and Delirious is about the friendship of three teenagers and how they experience it in a private school. Throughout the film, the lost girls question their relationships with one another and the authority of others, while desperately attempting to seek out true love and meaningful emotional connections in their confused adolescent lives.

 

 

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

    Léa Pool’s English language directorial debut, Lost and Delirious, based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan, is a powerful love story featuring three unforgettable teenaged girls: Paulie (Piper Perabo), Tory (Jessica Paré9, and Mouse (Mischa Barton). Intensified by the confined setting of their girls’ boarding school, it’s about a love deeper than sexuality that is bred of the loyalty and friendship that connects souls. The strong, complex blond between them leads to a tragic event that no one could have anticipated.

    “It’s about loving somebody for who they are, no matter their gender,” according to Paré. “The story of these two girls is about a friendship that becomes more and more intense. I think Tory wants Paulie because she’s her best friend and she’s totally devoted to her.”

    “The film is about that strange loyalty between girls, where it takes them, and that passion and idealism of adolescence, that time when everything is so intense and seems to matter so much,” elaborates Jackie Burroughs, the veteran actress who playas Fay Vaughn, the school’s headmistress.

    Piper Perabo feels the film is about “pushing the boundaries of love.” Understandable, five that her character, Paulie, is totally uncompromising and unapologetic in her obsession with Tory.

    “It’s as if they’re separate halves of each other, so when you take Tory away from Paulie, it’s like taking the ground out from under her feet,” Perabo explains. “Besides being her lover, Tory is her hold on the world.”

    Analyzing her character, Perabo goes on, “Paulie is intensely passionate. She’s studies and academic, she devours knowledge and is interested in trying it all out. But I don’t think she’s processed in all into real wisdom yet.”

    As for what it is she finds attractive in Paulie, Perabo adds, “I like it that she is fighting from the inside out, from this very controlled boarding school where all the girl are in uniform. I like how passionate she is about her education and her love, how she’s constantly going out and jumping off cliffs, so to speak.”

    Paré’s character, Tory, is a little more susceptible to reason as an antidote to passion this compels her to consider the consequences of a lesbian relationship. She is subject to the pressure of her family and school environment, refusing to pursue the relationship further. Deffering to these stresses, she falls in love with Jake, a student at a nearby boys’ school.

    Jake is played by first time film actor Luke Kirby. “Status is very important to Jake. He thinks of Tory as his trophy girl,” he says of his character. Of Paulie’s reaction to Jake’s relationship with Tory, he offers, “If you’re lucky enough to experience the horror of passion at

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such a young age, you go through this moment when perspective is obliterated and you ride wave of passion.”
    The subject matter of the film has the potential to engender controversy, a prospect Paré recognized, saying, “It might be a little controversial because the girls are so young, but the story is certainly accessible to everyone.”

    The third major character is Mouse, a shiy, timid, new girl who is assigned to share the room already occupied by Paulie and Tory. She adds a very interesting dimension to the structure of the film because the sotry is foremost about the relationship between Paulie and Tory, but is told through Mouse’s point of view.

    “Mouse is caught in a state of indecision,” Barton explains about her character. “She doesn’t know whose side she want to take, and she doesn’t want to have to take a side.”

    The three girls have bonded on the set and all profess to get along very well. This is especially important between Paré and Perabo, given the intimacy of some scenes they play together.

    For Perabo it has been helpful having fellow New Yorker Barton on set in Quebec to help alleviate the homesickness. Of her acting, Perabo says, “Mischa is very innocent and expressive, so it’s always heartbreaking to do scenes with her because it’s so amazing what comes out of her eyes.”

    The intensity of the subject matter and the passion of the characters are a challenge for each of the actors to sustain. As Perabo puts it, “It’s exhausting to be this intense, but it’s an intensity that refuels itself.”

    Director Pool expresses how impressed she is with the talents demonstrated by her young actory, notwithstanding their relative inexperience, “These three young actresses feel free to go as far as they cam. They are so confident. I am amazed by them. I just give them some marks and then the space where they can explore. We have great trust among us and it works well.”

    Her actors reciprocate hey compliments. They were attracted to the project largely for the opportunity to work with her and the be involved with one of her films. Paré notes the trust she exhibits towards the actors’ instincts. Pool allows them to try out scenes as they see fit before coming forth with her own recommendations of how to play them.

    Say Burroughs, “Léa is a genuine auteur and to be part of her perception it the world is exciting.”

    “I saw Emporte-moi and it blew my mind,” affirms Perabo. “I thought, “If I could ever get to work with Léa, I have to go wherever she is. She brings a whole world with her to the film and you can’t help but get inside that world with her.”

    The film was shot on location in Montreal and on the sumptuous grounds of Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.

 

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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

LÉA POOL (Director)

Lost and Delirious marks the English language directorial debut for Léa Pool, who stands out in the world of cinema for her own originality. Her films have won several international awards. In 1979, she wrote, directed and produced Strass Café,  a short film, that won awards at four festivals. In 1984, she wrote and directed her first feature film, La femme de l’hôtel, which was selected at the Forum, Berlin 1985. This film won seven awards, including the international press award from the World Film Festival in Montreal, Best Canadian film at the Festivals of the Festivals in Toronto, The Award for Best Actress – Louise Marleau – at the Chicago International Film Festival and a Genie Award also for actress Louise Marleau in a leading role. In 1986, she shot Anne Trister, which was chosen for participation in some fifteen international film festivals, including the official competition of the Berlin Film Festival. It won numerous awards, among them a Genie Award for cinematography in Toronto. The film also received a Tribute in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Art of film at the Denver Festival, USA.

In 1988, Pool brought A corps perdu,  an adaptation of Yves Navarre’s novel Kurwenal, to the big screen. The film was selected in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival, and the official competition at the Chicago International Film Festival. Featured in 34 international festivals, the film won Premiere magazine’s first prize at the Festival de la francophonie de Namur (Belgium), the award of excellence at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. Her 1991 feature film La demoiselle sauvage, based on the short story by Corinna Bille, won, among other prizes, the Super Ecran Award for best Canadian feature. Following on this success, Pool went on to write and direct Mouvements du désir in 1992-93, which was a finalist in eight categories at the Genie Awards and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. She also created a short vignette for the film Montreal vu par… in 1991.

Emporte-moi, her sixth feature film, was selected for the official competition at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival and won the Special Prize from the Ecumenical Jury. The film was also selected in the prestigious New York Film Festival in 1999. The film won numerous awards: the Silver Gryphon at the 1999 Giffoni Film Festival in Italy, the Silver Hugo for the Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Youth Prize at the Valladollid International Film Festival (Spain), the Best Canadian Film Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Best Feature Film Prize from Les prix du cinéma Suisse, a special prize from the jury at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Gold Bayard for Best Actress at the Festival international de film francophone de Namur, 4 Jutra Awards and a Special Mention at the Sarajevo Film Festiival.

Léa Pool expresses how impressed she is with the talents demonstrated by her young actors, notwithstanding their relative inexperience. “These three young actresses feel free to go as far as they can. They are so confident. I am amazed by them. I just give them some marks and then the space where they can explore. We have great trust among us and it works well.

 

Lorraine Richard (Producer)

Cofounder and CEO of Cité-Amérique, Lorraine Richard is first and foremost a women involved.  Involved in her daily work, but also in the more general context of the film industry and, indeed, in all the stages of her life that led her from the world of the theatre to that of the cinema.

Richard has produced for Cité-Amérique, the feature film Dans le ventre du dragon, directed by Yves Simoneau, which won Outstanding Film of the Year at the London Film Festival.  She also produced Charles Binamé’s Eldorado, a film chosen at the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at Cannes in 1995, as well as Le Coeur au poing, released in March 1998.  This film won the Award of Best Director and the Crystal Globe Award (Best Film) at the 33rd Karlovy Vary, the Rogers Award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the 17th International Festival in Vancouver, the Prix d’ interprétation feminine (for Pascale Montpetit) at the 15th Festival du film d’amour in Mons (Belgium),  as well as two Claude Jutra Awards - Best Actress (for Pascale Montpetit) and Best Supporting Actress (for Anne-Marie Cadieux).  In addition, Richard produced Pool’s film Emporte-moi, part of the official competition at the Berlin International Festival in 1999 and recipient of the Special Ecumenical Jury Award, winner of the Silver Gryphon at the 29th Film Festival of Giffoni (Italy), selected at the New York Film Festival, given special mention by the jury at the Toronto International Film Festival, winner of a Bayard d’or for Best Actress at the Festival international du film francophone in Namur (Belgium), recipient of a Silver Hugo for Best Screenplay at the Chicago Film Festival, winner of the Youth Prize at the 44th International Film Festival in Valladolid (Spain), Best Canadian Film Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association, Best Feature Film Prize from Les prix du cinéma Suisse, 4 Jutra Awards and a Special Mention at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Richard has also produced the television series Les Filles de Caleb and Blanche.  These series broke all records for television viewing, were sold to two dozen countries, and won a number of significant awards.  Les filles de Caleb won thirteen Gemeaux Awards, the Gold FIPA for best television series and the Gold Medal for best dramatic series at the New York Festival.  Another of Cité-Amérique’s productions, the television series Marguerite Volant, won a Silver FIPA in Biarritz in 1997.

More recently, Richard produced Four Days, the first feature film for director Curtis Wehrfritz, which had its world premier at the Toronto Festival ’99.  She also co-produced the television series Le femme de boulanger, with France, adapted from the novel by Marcel Pagnol, as well as the Marseilles trilogy, Marius, César, and Fanny.  She produced La Beauté de Pandore, by Charles Binamé and now she is currently working on the post production of  Random Passage, an eigth-hour series written by Des Walsh and directed by John N. Smith (the creative team responsible for The Boys of St.Vincent) as well as on the post production of the feature film Lost and Delirious, directed by Léa Pool and written by Judith Thompson, based on a novel by Susan Swan.

For Richard, “Producing is creating stories and telling them from the heart so that the magic takes us beyond mere entertainment.”

 

GREG DUMMETT (Co-Producer)

Producer Greg Dummett hadn’t even completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema Studies (which he’d be granted by the University of Toronto in 1987) when he was already active in the film industry.  His first project was to produce the 1985 music documentary, The Reed Man.  In 1987 he’d make his directorial debut with Out on a Limbo, which he also produced.  That film would take an Honourable Mention at that year’s Montreal Film Festival.  Also in 1987, Dummett launched his own production company, O’B & D Films.

In 1988 he won a fellowship to the prestigious Banff International Television Festival.  He went on to produce St. Nicholas and the Children for CTV.  In 1989 he wrote his first theatrical feature film, Giant Steps, which he’d produce as a theatrical feature film in 1992.  Other television production credits include CTV’s Trick or Treat in 1990 and CBC’s Johann’s Gift to Christmas in 1991.

Dummett’s features include Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1998), based upon Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed children’s novel, The Boys Club (1996), and Giant Steps (1992).  In 1998 he co-produced the feature film Four Days, which starred Colm Meany, Lolita Davidovich, and William Forsythe, with Cité-Amerique.  It marked the beginning of a relationship between Dummet and his Quebec counterparts that continues with Lost and Delirious.

 

Louis-Philippe Rochon (Co-producer)

After earning a law degree, Louis-Philippe Rochon went into the film business, where he has worked for over twenty years.

He has been an assistant director on several major features, including director Yves Simoneau’s 1997 film Free Money, featuring Marlon Brando. Rochon’s other credits include For Hire (1996), Oliver (1996), Mille merveilles de l’univers (1996), Lillies (1995), Habitat (1995) and Le Confessional (1994).

His earlier producing credits include Léa Pool’s Emporte-Moi in 1998 and Charles Binamé’s La Beauté de Pandore, a Cité-Amerique production that was released in February 2000.

 

JUDITH THOMPSON (Screenwriter)

Screenwriter Judith Thompson has extensive credits as writer, director, and dramaturgist.  She was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series in 1995 for the script of the CBC Movie of the week, Life with Billy.  She is a two-time Governor General’s Award Winner, in 1990 for The Other Side of the Dark (Coach House Press) and 1984 for White Biting Dog (Playwrights Canada press).  Her play, I am Yours, which was produced by the Great Canadian Theatre Company, won a Chalmers Award in 1988.  She won a second Chalmers in 1991 for Lion in the Streets.

Her direction of Tornado for the CBC and Swedish National Radio Company earned a Nellie Award for Best Drama of 1988.  She has also directed at the Shaw Festival (Hedda Gabler) and Toronto’s du Maurier Festival (Lion in the Streets), as well as at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Vancouver’s Touchstone Theatre, and Hudson’s Guild Theatre in New York.

Her writing for film and television includes Perfect Pie, which is currently in development of Rhombus Media, Les Biches for Chesler Productions, Teenage Girls Save the Earth for the Film Works, as well as episodes of Adderly for CBS/CTV and Street Legal for CBC.

Between 1980 and 1990 she taught playwriting and direction at the Universities of Toronto and New Brunswick, as well as delivering workshops and seminars.

 

Susan Swan (Novelist)

Lost and Delirious is adapted from Susan Swan’s novel, The Wives of Bath, a finalist for Ontario’s Trillium Award and Britain’s Guardian Fiction Award.

Swan is currently finishing a novel called What Casanova Told Me, a Mediterranean odyssey about the search for renewal, pleasure, and inspiration from the past – a story which has, as its counterpoint, the travellers of the 18th century who sought truth and beauty in the ruins of Greece and Rome. The novel is based on the journals of Asked For Adams, the niece of former American President John Adams, who travelled with the legendary Venetian in the last years of his life. The research she undertook is the inspiration for a symposium she is hosting as Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at Toronto’s York University. The “moveable millennial wisdom symposium” features eighteen novelists, historians, and archaeologists talking about the way the past is recreated in popular culture and what wisdom the past has to offer as we move into this new century.

Stories from Swan’s last book, Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With (1966), were excerpted in the Fall 1996 issues of Granta and Ms. The story collection is a lively look at short-term relationships partly set in cyberspace. It was selected as a best title of the week by Entertainment Weekly.

One of her novels, The last of the Golden Girls (1989), broke new ground in the treatment of female sexuality, prompting some readers to send her flowers, while two listeners who heard her reading an excerpt on CBC radio tried to file obscenity charges against her.

Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, which is being made into a film, is the story of a Nova Scotian giantess who exhibited with P. T. Barnum. It was a finalist for a Governor General's Award.

 

PIERRE GILL (Director of photography)

Pierre Gill is a much sought after Quebec cinematographer.  He is the director of photography for Lost and Delirious.

After graduating from Concordia University, he began filming advertisements and videos.  He went on to work on short films, including Mitsou en forme and La La La Human Steps, both in 1993.

He has frequently collaborated with the director Charles Binamé, contributing for two years to his television series Marguerite Volante (1995-96).  He has served as director of photography on three of Binamé’s feature films: Eldorado (1994), Le Coeur au Poing (1997), and Le Beauté de Pandore (1999).

In 1997 he worked on several episodes of the Showtime series The Hunger.  He was director of photography on Filmline’s The Adventures of Jules Verne in 1998.  He photographed the major American television miniseries Joan of Arc in 1999.

His latest project, prior to Lost and Delirious,  was Christian Duguy’s Art of War (1999), which is currently in theatres, starring Wesley Snipes.

 

GAÉTAN HUOT (Editor)

Editor Gaetan Huot adds Lost and Delirious to his impressive list of credits.  It is the latest in a long series of features upon which he’s worked, including: Four Days, Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould, C’était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues, Kids of the Round Table, Karmina, The Red Violin, and Les Boys II.

Several of his short films have won awards, including the Golden Museum Award from the American Museum Association (for Centre Canadien d’Architecture), the FIPA Prix spécial du public from Cannes and the Premier prix vidéo at Montreal’s Festival international des films sure l’art (for Lalala Human Steps, Duo no. 1), and the Grand Gold Award for Experimental Film at the Houston Film and Video Festival (for Vie et mort de l’architecte).

Huot has also worked in television, on Miséricorde, Olivier, Le monde selon Clémence, and Têtes à têtes.  He has edited music videos for such artists at Michael Breen, Gerry Boulet, Pierre Flynn, Daniel Lavoie, Richard Seguin, Michel Rivard, and Pagliaro.  As well, he has done commercials for Air Canada, Bell Canada, Black Label, General Motors, and Hydro-Quebec, among others.

 

ABOUT THE CAST

 

Piper Perabo (Paulina)
Piper Perabo stars as Paulina in Lost and Delirious

Her brief career has already attracted considerable attention as Variety and Talk magazines have recognized her as among the top young actresses to watch. This, on the strength of her performances in the much talked about Coyote Ugly, as well as The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Prior to these films, she’d appeared in one other commercial film, White Boys.

While earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts, summa cum laude, in acting from Ohio University, Perabo appeared in several student stage and film productions.

 

Jessica Paré
Jessica Paré plays Victoria in Lost and Delirious:

Barely out of high school, the native Montrealer has already won notice for her work in the films, En Vacances, from director Yves Hanchar, and Denys Arcand’s Stardom, where she played the lead, and which closed the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Among her other films was a role in Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds.

She has studied drama at Villa Maria High School and TheatreWorks, and has appeared on the stage in several of their productions.

 

MISCHA BARTON (Mouse)
Mischa Barton plays Mouse in Lost and Delirious.

The film marks Barton’s second trip to Sundance. She previously received accolades for her roles opposite Sam Rockwell in Lawn Dogs.

Despite her youth, her resume of film work is already impressive. Additional credits include the Academy Award nominated film The Sixth Sense, Pups for filmmaker Ash, Tart with Melanie Griffith, Skipped Parts opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paranoid with Jessica Alba, Notting Hill and yet another Sundance project, Julie Johnson.

Barton is also a seasoned stage performer. In New York theatre, she has appeared at the famed Lincoln Centre in Twelve Dreams. Other plays include One Flea Spare, Where the Truth Lies, and Slavs!

No stranger to television, Barton has been seen on the daytime drama All my Children, Saturday Night Live, and in the title role of Frankie alongside Joan Plowright in the Showtime feature Frankie and Hazel for producer Barbara Streisand’s Barwood Films.
 


Jackie Burroughs (Miss Vaughn)
Highly acclaimed Canadian actress Jackie Burroughs plays Miss Vaughn in Lost and Delirious.

Burroughs has graced the stages of prestigious Shaw and Stratford Theatre Festivals and was a member of the Missouri Repertory Theatre. She appeared in the Royal Alexandra Productions of Uncle Vanya and Present Laughter with Peter O´Toole. 

Her television appearances are numerous. She won an ACTRA Award in 1970 for the CBC production Vicki, playing the lead role. In 1973 her performance in Twelve and a Half Cents garnered her an Etrog Award. She won two Geminis for Best Performance by an Actress (in 1992 and 1994) and was nominated for a third (in 1995) for her work as Aunt Hetty in the longrunning  series, Road to Avonlea. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Gemini for her portrayal of Mother Mucca in Armistead Maupin’s More Tales of the City in 1999. Her other credits include Cover Me, Evidence of Blood, Lonesome Dove, Twilight Zone, and Anne of Green Gables.

Burroughs’ film career is also distinguished. In 1972 she won the Yorktown Film Award for Best Actress for the lead role in If Wishes Were Horses. She took back-to-back Genie Awards for best Supporting Actress in 1983 (for The Wars) and 1984 (for The Grey Fox). In 1988 she was honoured with a Best Actress Genie and the Best Actress Award from the Creteuil Woman’s Film Festival (France) for Winter Tan, which she also co-directed. Among her other film credits are Washed Up, writer/director Don McKellar’s highly regarded Last Night, Elvis Meets Nixon, John and the Missus, and David Cronenberg’s Dead Zone.

 

GRAHAM GREENE (Joseph)
Distinguished Canadian actor Graham Greene plays Joseph Menzies in Lost and Delirious.

Greene is perhaps best recognized for his portrayal of Kicking Bira in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves, for which he received a coveted Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.  In 1993 he was honored with a Gemini Award for his work in Dudley the Dragon.  He won a Grammy Award in 2000 for his narration of the PBS production Listen to the Storyteller.

The highlight of his stage career has been playing Pierre St.Pierre in Dry Lips Oughtta Move to Kapuskasing, for which he won the 1989 Dora Award for Best Actor when it was produced by Native Earth / Theatre Passe Muraille.  He has reprised the role at the MTC, NAC, and Royal Alexandra Theatre.  Other stage credits include Diary of a Crazy Boy, Coming Through Slaughter, and Crackwalker.

He has been a guest star on the series Northern Exposure, Murder, She Wrote, and North of 60. He also played a lead role in the North of 60 movie of the week.

Greene has been seen on the big screen in a number of blockbusters, including last year’s Academy Award nominated The Green Mile with Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, Sir Richard Attenborough’s Grey Owl, Die Hard 3 with Bruce Willis, Maverick alongside Mel Gibson, and director Michael Apted’s Thunderheart.

A prominent and respected member of Canada’s Aboriginal community, he has hosted the CBC broadcast of The National Aboriginal Achievement Awards  show.