Bruce Greenwood

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Bruce Greenwood
Image:Bruce Greenwood at the 39th Emmy Awards cropped.jpg
Bruce Greenwood at the 39th Emmy Awards
Birth name Stuart Bruce Greenwood
Born August 12 1956 (1956-08-12) (age 52)
Image:Flag of Canada.svg Noranda, Quebec, Canada
Other name(s) Greendog (school nickname)
Spouse(s) Susan Devlin(1985)
Official site www.brucegreenwood.com

Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Greenwood was born in Noranda, Quebec,[1] the son of Mary Sylvia (née Ledingham), a nurse who worked in an extended care unit, and Hugh John Greenwood, a Vancouver-born geophysicist and teacher who taught at Princeton University.[2] He has two sisters, Kelly Louis and Barbara Lynn. Greenwood studied philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia.

Greenwood met his wife Susan in Canada when they were both 15. They have been married since 1985.

[edit] Career

Greenwood is known in the US for his appearances in I, Robot, The Core, Double Jeopardy, Thirteen Days (in which he played president John F Kennedy), Capote (in which he played Jack Dunphy, Truman Capote's lover), and more recently Eight Below (in which he played Professor Davis McClaren) and Firehouse Dog (in which he was the captain after the death of his brother). He has had prominent roles in the award winning films Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, both directed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan. He also appeared in the 1980s teen cult film The Malibu Bikini Shop and starred in Mee-Shee: The Water Giant.

On television Greenwood has had roles on St. Elsewhere (Dr. Seth Griffin, 1986-1988), Knots Landing (Pierce Lawton, 1991-1992) and the UPN series Nowhere Man (Thomas Veil, 1995-1996).

On 10 June 2007 a new show on HBO from David Milch, the creator of Deadwood called John from Cincinnati premiered, starring Greenwood.

On 8 November 2007 the Hollywood Reporter announced that Greenwood would play Captain Christopher Pike in the 11th Star Trek movie.[3] Bruce also plays the US president in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

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