Ryan Rajendra Black

Ryan Rajendra Black is a Canadian actor, most noted for his leading role as Silas Crow in the 1994 film Dance Me Outside and its spinoff television series The Rez.

Career

A Saulteaux member of the Sagkeeng First Nation, he has also appeared in the television series North of 60, Highlander: The Raven, Moccasin Flats and Cashing In, the films Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, Elimination Dance, Seven Times Lucky and Stryker, and on stage in a production of Ian Ross's Governor General's Award winning theatrical play fareWel.
He received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 13th Gemini Awards in 1998.
Black was a production coordinator for I, Hostage and I, Alive. He was also the second assistant director for 26 episodes of the 2019 reality series My Misdiagnosis.