Bruce Greenwood
Biography
Bruce Greenwood was born on August 12, 1956 in Noranda, Québec, Canada as Stuart Bruce Greenwood. He is an actor and producer, known for Star Trek (2009), Thirteen Days (2000) and I, Robot (2004). He has been married to Susan Devlin since 1985. They have one child.
Family
Trivia
Is an avid musician and relaxes by singing and playing his electric guitar.
Bruce was in grade school in Bethesda, Maryland during the Cuban Missile Crisis and remembers the preparations for possible war vividly.
Auditioned for the roles of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope (1994) and Mike Ryan on Almost Perfect (1995).
Stopped smoking after the pilot of Nowhere Man (1995).
Owns the tuxedo he wore in Treacherous Beauties (1994).
Began making talking books in 1996, which employs his penchant for dialects.
Loves to pepper his speech with sound effects and foreign accents.
Filmed a public service message for Northwest Medical Teams on the plight of Romanian orphans while on Nowhere Man (1995).
Won a Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role for his performance of Caleb Stokes in Avonlea (1990) in 1995. Bruce was also nominated for a Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance of Dr. Willem Hooft in The Little Kidnappers (1990) in 1990.
Personal Quotes
[on performing in the horror movie Cell 213 (2011)]: I was only on the set for about 10 days but I was trying for some edgier stuff, some different decisions. I asked the director what this guy was about, what he does, and he said 'He smells people'. So there were scenes where I really did a lot of sniffing. I spent a lot of time breathing people in and flaring my nostrils.
[on his digitally-coded performance in Super 8 (2011)]: It's not your typical acting exercise at all, because you're really the only person in this room with all the cameras in it. It was a very weird thing to offer up all this big emotion while the rest of the people in the room are picking away at the craft services table.
[on undertaking the role of Dr. Emmett Code in The River (2012)] I've played a lot of people who have hidden agendas or have reached bottom, who are not particularly savoury. This is a guy who believes deeply in his love for his wife, his son, and is just happy to wake up in the morning.
