Bruce Greenwood (full name Stuart Bruce Greenwood) is an American actor and producer. Greenwood's creative career began with performances on the theater stage in Canada, then appeared in cameo roles in television projects. Since 1982 he has been acting in Hollywood.
The creative biography of Greenwood has more than one hundred and forty roles in television and film projects. In 1990, he was nominated for a Gemini Award for his role in Little Kidnappers. In 1995 he won this award for his role in the film Road to Avonlea.
Biography facts
The future famous actor was born in Canada in the summer of 1956. His father during this period worked as a geologist, engaged in the extraction of minerals. Together with his wife, he was in Noranda (Canada), where their son Bruce was born.
The boy's mother worked as a nurse in the clinic. My father was not only a geologist, but also a geophysicist, doctor of science, professor, teacher at Princeton University. Bruce has two younger sisters: Kelly and Lynn.
Bruce's paternal grandfather is Ralph Allan Sampson. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
When the boy was eleven years old, the family moved to Vancouver, where Bruce began going to school - Magee secondary school. Then the father received a new assignment, so the family went to Switzerland.
There Bruce became interested in skiing and was even going to build a professional sports career. He showed great promise, participated in several competitions and famous ski tournaments.
When Bruce was sixteen years old, he suffered a severe knee injury and underwent six operations. After that, I had to forget about professional sports forever.
After some time, Bruce's father received an offer to head the department of geology at the university. The family returned to Vancouver.
After graduating from high school, Greenwood entered the university at the Faculty of Geology, where he studied for three years. It was there that he became interested in creativity and decided that he did not want to follow in his father's footsteps and became a geologist.
Greenwood studied acting at London's Central School of Speech and Learning, and then at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Creative way
In the 1970s, Greenwood began working at the Vancouver Theater, where he received his first small roles in performances. Then he tried to appear on television, but even there he was offered only inconspicuous minor roles in the series.
Work in the theater and on television was not in vain. Having gained experience, Bruce went to New York, where he continued to study acting. Then he moved to Los Angeles and started looking for work in the film industry.
In 1982 he got a cameo role in the famous action movie "Rambo: First Blood". From that moment on, his entire further career will be associated with Hollywood.
Greenwood starred in famous and popular TV series and feature films, where he most often got minor roles. But this did not stop him from becoming a famous actor and building an excellent career in cinema.
Of his works in films, it is worth noting roles in the films: "Wild Orchid", "Passenger 57", "Man from Nowhere", "I, Robot", "White Prisoner", "Crew", "Theater", "Young Justice League", American Crime Story, The Resident, Mad Men.
Greenwood also provides voice acting for famous animated films such as American Dad, Bob's Magic Sleigh, Batman: Under the Hood, and Batman: Gotham in Gas Light.
Personal life
Bruce met his future wife Susan Devlin in his youth. Then he was only fifteen years old. After leaving school, they did not see each other for many years, but in 1984 they met again and never parted. A year later, Susan became Bruce's wife. They have a daughter named Chloe.
