Bruce GREENWOOD
Bruce Greenwood turned to acting while a student at the University of British Columbia in his native Canada. After graduating, he landed bit roles in the feature films 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.Although a key role in the NBC TV-movie Peyton Place: The Next Generation followed, he first came to attention on St. Elsewhere (NBC, 1986-88), as Dr. Seth Griffin, the brash doctor who finds religion when he contracts AIDS from a hypodermic needle. 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. In 1990 Greenwood also performed in Wild Orchid (1990) with Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis, Nastassja Kinski.
From 1991-1992, Greenwood had a one-year stint on Knots Landing (CBS) as Pierce Lawton, a man seeking revenge for losing all his money in a business scheme that went south. In 1992, he also took a role in Passenger 57 with Wesley Snipes and Elizabeth Hurley. In 1994 Greenwood starred in Atom Egoyan’s critically acclaimed Exotica as a tax inspector obsessed with a stripper. After numerous movies of the week and miniseries, 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.
In 1997, Greenwood reunited with Egoyan to play the mournful father Billy Ansel in the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter with Ian Holm, Sarah Polley; he also co-starred in director Ivan Reitman’s Father’s Day with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. In 1998, Greenwood played Dr. Calicott in Disturbing Behavior (1998). He can be seen in the Paramount feature Double Jeopardy opposite Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones as well as The Lost Son opposite Daniel Auteuil, directed by Chris Menges and is currently shooting Rules of Engagement with Samuel L. Jackson for Paramount, directed by Billy Friedkin.
A nice over-all biography from a company that knows Greenwood well. It was particularly encouraging to see their take on Nowhere Man, but there are still a few surprizing errors:
Greenwood never graduated from The University of British Columbia. Nasstasja Kinski was not in Wild Orchid. Father's Day should be Fathers' Day He played Dr. Caldicott in Disturbing Behavior
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