Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood was born on Aug. 12, 1956, in Noranda, Quebec. His family regularly relocated to pursue his father’s academic appointments and spent years in Princeton, NJ and Bethesda, MD, before returning to Canada when Bruce was 11 years old. He graduated from high school in Zurich and spent three years at UBC while appearing in school and regional productions. He returned to Europe, checking out the theatre scene in London.

Back in Vancouver, he was offered a job in the touring company of the musical “Cruel Tears,” parlaying that into more Canadian stage roles and his film debut in “Bear Island” (1980). Greenwood attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and his professional career got a boost with “Rambo: First Blood” (1982). Greenwood appeared in “The Hitchhiker” (1983) and he co-starred in a recurring TV role in “Legmen” (NBC, 1984) .A key role in the NBC TV-movie “Peyton Place: The Next Generation” (1985) and several films followed, Greenwood’s first major success was playing Dr. Seth Griffin, a brash doctor who finds religion when he contracts AIDS, in the medical drama “St. Elsewhere” (NBC, 1982-88).

Bruce appeared in over 70 film and television productions during the 1980s, ’90s, and into the new millennium. High profile achievements included the acclaimed indie “The Sweet Hereafter” (1997), “Thirteen Days” (2000) in which he portrayed President John F. Kennedy, and starring roles in TV dramas “Nowhere Man” (UPN, 1995-96) and “John from Cincinnati” (HBO, 2007). Greenwood enjoyed a big screen profile boost with “I, Robot” (2004), “Capote” (2005) and “Eight Below” (2006) which led to a casting victory in “Star Trek XI” (2008) as Captain Pike. He is married to Susan Devlin.