Bruce Greenwood

Born in Quebec (Canada) in August 1956, Bruce Greenwood always lived with the suitcase packed by the research projects his father led as a renowned geophysicist and university professor. For this reason, he grew up between Vancouver, Princeton and Maryland; he completed his secondary education in Zurich (Switzerland), where he discovered that he wanted to dedicate himself professionally to skiing, but a knee injury slammed that door; and he ended up studying philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia, where he fell in love with acting after only taking it as an elective.

That was when he decided to train specifically for such issues, and studied for a year at the Academy of Performing Arts in New York. Hers was a great decision, despite the fact that she had to start in small, and even immediately ousted, plays. More than typical beginnings for any actor who continued his progression with roles in television series such as Beachcombers (1977) or St. Elsewhere (1986), the latter being the one that helped him put aside the various telefilms that he had accumulated in those early years. years. Later he would appear in the ‘prime time’ drama Knots landing (1991), and as the lead in the mysterious Nowhere Man (1995).

His jump to the big screen came from Cornered (1982), and although it was a minimal role, Greenwood himself always evokes his participation in it as a pleasant memory. From there, he was linking other appearances in eighties films such as Legmen (1984) or the adolescent classic The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986); and in relics of the nineties more typical of VHS, such as The servers of twilight (1991) or Passenger 57 (1992). Everything is to make more resume.

A turning point was the drama Exotica (1994), a Canadian film that, apart from winning several awards at festivals such as those in Toronto or Cannes, was considered by critics as one of the “cult” films of that year. The professional union with Atom Egoyan , apart from giving him more work, made Greenwood begin to be looked at with different eyes, he was not someone only for scurrilous roles. Proof of this was the following and also successful film by Egoyan El dulce porvenir (1997), and with Ararat (2002) three quarters of the same happened.

Without going into leading roles, Greenwood knew how to dig enough to appear in productions that made his career advance. And though she was doing it slowly, such progress barely stopped. Half crime thrillers, half intrigue, such as Among Thieves (1998), Double Betrayal (1999) or the romantic drama Here on Earth (2000) acted as a warm-up for what would undoubtedly be one of his great roles as John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days (2000). In this film, the Cuban missile crisis is sublimely recounted, and critics were able to appreciate and reward Greenwood’s more than remarkable performance.

The historical genre, as well as fantastic, was taken up again with enthusiasm in Below (2002); and he went beyond apocalyptic in The Core (2003) and I, Robot (2004), for which he received equal parts praise and harsh criticism. It can be said that he has also taken part in the autobiographical and memorable Capote (2005), the endearing and doggy Bajo cero (2006), in the undervalued Déjà vu (2006) or in the mockumentary I’m Not There (2007), which was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress. And always from the longest litany of high school.

Even the legendary Star Trek saga (2009) called him up to put on the makeup of Christopher Pike, the captain of the Enterprise. A classic role that served to forge even more the image of him as that actor whose name is not always remembered, but who always says that “this one sounds like…”. And he will appear again in the next film, entitled Star Trek: Into the Dark (2013), since as the actor himself has declared, “the entire cast of Star Trek actors were united and eager to return to shoot a film like is”.

His latest appearances have been in the vintage Super 8 (2011), Cristiada (2012) and the most recent El vuelo (2013), an action and intrigue drama starring Denzel Washington where the most obvious things are the least certain. His fate, thanks to The River (2011), has also lately been linked to that world of television that gave him the professional options of having advanced as he has.

Apart from pure and hard interpretation, Greenwood has worked as a voice actor on multiple occasions, such as in the animated series Young Justice (2010), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) or in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. 3 (2011). All the hectic life that he led in his itinerant and nomadic youth has been put on hold, apart from when he has to work, for the happy life he leads with his wife Susan Devlin, with whom he has been married for more than 25 years and has a son.