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Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a Canadian actor and musician. [1] He is perhaps best known for his role as Nobody in the films Dead Man (1995) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), and for his role in Smoke Signals (1998). In his career spanning over three decades, Farmer received three Independent Spirit Award for Best ...
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Mark Farmer (22 May 1962 – 26 April 2016) [1] was an English...
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- Mark Farmer (actor)
Gary Farmer. Actor: Dead Man. Gary Dale Farmer is a character actor with plenty of character. With over 100 Film and TV appearances attached to his resume, and plenty more in the pipeline, Gary has shown he can adapt easily to any genre when necessary.
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Gary Farmer. Actor: Dead Man. Gary Dale Farmer is a character actor with plenty of character. With over 100 Film and TV appearances attached to his resume, and plenty more in the pipeline, Gary has shown he can adapt easily to any genre when necessary. He was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan, and studied photography and Film at both the Syracuse University and ...
- June 12, 1953
Mark Farmer (22 May 1962 – 26 April 2016) [1] was an English actor and musician. He is probably best remembered for his childhood role of Gary Hargreaves in series 2 to 4 of the popular children's television programme Grange Hill, in which he starred from 1979 to 1981. Farmer had a range of earlier childhood roles, and also went on to appear ...
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A member of the Cayuga nation, Gary Farmer was born at old Lady Willingdon hospital in Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River. His father’s career as a US Army engineerled the family to briefly relocate to Texas before settling in Buffalo, New York, where Farmer grew up.
Farmer studied at Syracuse University in New York and at Ryerson Polytechnic University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto. While at the latter, he developed a passion for photography and the performing arts and majored in photography and film production. He also became involved with Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA), a Toronto thea...
Gary Farmer made his first television appearance in an episode of The Littlest Hobo in 1983. He continued to work steadily in theatre while occasionally landing small parts in such movies as Police Academy (1984) and The Believers (1987) and such TV series as Spirit Bay (1984) and Miami Vice(1988). Farmer had a breakthrough year in 1989. He was nom...
Gary Farmer has been a tireless promoter of Indigenous peoples’ cultures. In 1993 he launched Aboriginal Voices, an Indigenous arts and culture magazine that was published until 1999. In 1998, concerned about the decline in First Nations language usage, Farmer (with Tomson Highway, Alanis Obomsawin and Jennifer Podemski) helped launch the Aborigina...
Gary Farmer is an in-demand public speaker and advocate for Indigenous representation and has delivered numerous lectures at colleges and universities across North America. He also taught two courses in dramatic arts at Brock University in 2011 and has run youth acting camps at Six Nations of the Grand River. He has also performed and recording for...
Best Actor (Powwow Highway), American Indian Film Festival (1989)Best Actor (Dead Man), American Indian Film Festival (1997)Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Film (Lead) (Dead Man), First Americans in the Arts Awards (1997)Taos Mountain Award for Lifetime Achievement, Taos Talking Picture Festival (2001)Jun 13, 2023 · Gary Farmer. Photo courtesy of Lisa Longboat | Seneca Media & Communications Center. George Harrison. Forest Whitaker. Johnny Depp. Each of these elite entertainers collaborated with Cayuga actor Gary Farmer from the Six Nations of Grand River. Though he was born right across the border in the neighboring Canadian province of Ontario, Farmer ...
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Florida State University ( BS) University of Toledo ( JD) Gary Michael Farmer Jr. (born April 29, 1964) is an American attorney and former Democratic politician from Florida. He served as a member of the Florida Senate from 2016 until 2022, representing parts of eastern Broward County. [1] He was the Senate's minority leader from 2020 to 2021.
