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 bit roles in the features "Bear Island" (1980) and "First Blood" (1982). Greenwood spent a year touring as a singer/guitarist with a rock band before moving to L.A. 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 from a hypodermic needle on "St. Elsewhere" (NBC, 1986-88). More TV-movie roles followed, including "Spy" (USA, 1989) and "The Story of the Beach Boys: Summer Dreams" (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 topline the very short-lived baseball sitcom "Hardball" (Fox, 1994) as a wisecracking veteran pitcher. In 1995, Greenwood starred in two miniseries, "Naomi & Wynnona: 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. In addition to acting, Greenwood also produces records, CD-ROMS, and owns his own recording studio.

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Errors:

Only one small error in this excellent biography:

The Story of the Beach Boys: Summer Dreams should be Summer Dreams: the Story of the Beach Boys

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