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A handsome, light-haired leading man, Bruce Greenwood originally wanted to
be a professional skier, but an injury forced him to abandon that dream. He
turned to acting while a student at the University of British Columbia in
his native Canada. After graduating, he landed small roles in the features "Bear
Island" (1980) and "First Blood" (1982).
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Greenwood spent a year touring as a singer-guitarist with a rock band before
moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He landed his first
series, the short-lived "Legmen" (NBC, 1984), in which he played a college
student earning extra money by working for a seedy private detective (Claude
Akins). Although a key role in the NBC TV-movie "Peyton Place: The Next
Generation" followed, he first came to attention as Dr. Seth Griffin, the
brash doctor who finds religion when he contracts AIDS in the NBC medical
drama "St. Elsewhere" (from 1986 to 1988). More TV-movie roles followed,
including "Spy" (USA, 1989) and "Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys"
(ABC, 1990), in which he played Dennis Wilson. Greenwood also had a one-year
stint on "Knots Landing" (CBS, 1991-92) as Pierce Lawton, a man seeking
revenge for losing all his money in a business scheme that went south. He
went on to headline the very short-lived baseball sitcom "Hardball" (Fox,
1994) as a wisecracking veteran pitcher. In 1995, Greenwood starred in two
miniseries, "Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge" (NBC), as Naomi
Judd's husband, and "Judith Krantz's 'Dazzle'" (CBS). He was also featured
as a first-time father-to-be in the NBC TV-movie "Danielle Steel's 'Mixed
Blessings'". That same year, he was cast in "Nowhere Man," the first drama
for the fledgling UPN Network. The show earned a cult following and he
became a TV star thanks to his role as Thomas Veil, a documentary
photographer who appears to have his entire identity erased forcing him to
begin a desperate and dangerous quest to discover why this happened and who
is behind it.
Greenwood has had occasional roles in features, including a co-starring part
as a security officer coping with a hijacked plane in "Passenger 57" (1992)
and the lead in Atom Egoyan's "Exotica" (1994), as a tax inspector obsessed
with a stripper. Three years later, he was nearly unrecognizable behind long
hair and a bushy mustache as the father of two children killed in a tragic
bus accident in Egoyan's superlative "The Sweet Hereafter". Greenwood then
turned villainous as a doctor who "treats" unruly teenagers in the thriller
"Disturbing Behavior" (1998), playing Ashley Judd's plotting spouse in "Double
Jeopardy" (1999), and as a nefarious government official in "Rules of
Engagement" (2000). By turning heroic with a terrific, nuanced portrayal of
US President John F Kennedy as he negotiated the Cuban Missile Crisis and
its fallout in the riveting "Thirteen Days" (2000), the actor was catapulted
to a new level of respect. Avoiding caricature, Greenwood depicted Kennedy
as a flawed human who managed to rise to the necessary level of heroism to
lead the country in a time of crisis. He next stepped into Joseph Cotten's
shoes, undertaking the role of inventor Eugene Morgan in the A&E miniseries
version of "The Magnificent Ambersons" (2001). |
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