Bruce Greenwood

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Bruce Greenwood is the Canadian actor and musician who played in and .
In 1992, Greenwood was considered for the role of Benjamin Sisko in .
In 2009, Greenwood was part of the Star Trek ensemble which received a Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award nomination in the category Best Ensemble and won a Boston Society of Film Critics Award in the category Best Ensemble Cast. He shared these awards with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Eric Bana, Clifton Collins, Jr., John Cho, Jennifer Morrison, Chris Hemsworth, Winona Ryder, Faran Tahir, and Tyler Perry. In 2010, he was part of the ensemble which received a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination in the category Best Acting Ensemble for Star Trek.
The virtual collectible card battle game Star Trek: Rivals is using his pictures for card #85 "Captain C. Pike" and card #102 "Admiral C. Pike".
== Personal information ==
Greenwood was born in Noranda, Quebec. He studied philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia. He has been married to Susan Devlin since 1985.
Greenwood is a close friend of actor Gregg Henry, who appeared in . Greenwood and Henry worked together on the NBC television movie The Great Pretender (filmed in 1989, aired in 1991). Years later, Greenwood urged Henry to begin recording the songs he was writing. Greenwood has provided vocals on all of Henry's CDs. 
== Career ==
=== Film ===
On film, Greenwood is perhaps best known for starring as President John F. Kennedy in 2000's Thirteen Days. This film co-starred actor Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy and also featured Jack Blessing, Len Cariou, Kevin Conway, Charles Esten, Tim Kelleher, Boris Krutonog, Ed Lauter, Dakin Matthews, and Bill Smitrovich. Greenwood's performance as Kennedy won him a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama. In the "Casting" featurette on the Star Trek DVD, Roberto Orci suggested that this role, and the "gravitas" Greenwood brought to the portrayal of Kennedy, was largely the basis for the decision to cast him as Pike.
Greenwood made his film debut in (1979). He then appeared in (1982, composed by Jerry Goldsmith). His first major film roles were The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986, with Jay Robinson, Jon Rashad Kamal and Charlie Brill) and (1986). 
He played the lead role in (1989, co-starring Brenda Bakke and Marco Rodríguez). He also had the lead role in the 1991 horror thriller Servants of Twilight, which co-starred Patrick Massett and Carel Struycken. He then had a supporting role in (1992, starring Wesley Snipes, with Alex Datcher and Robert Hooks). The film was directed by Hooks' son Kevin.
He has worked with Egyptian director Atom Egoyan on (1994, with Victor Garber and Mia Kirshner), (1997), and (2002). His work on The Sweet Hereafter earned him a nomination from the Genie Awards. One of his co-stars on Ararat was 's Christopher Plummer, whom he later worked with on The Summit.
Greenwood co-starred with s Denise Crosby and s Armin Shimerman in the 1995 direct-to-video thriller Dream Man. He followed this with supporting roles in such movies as (1997, starring Robin Williams, with Charles Rocket) and (1998, co-starring William Sadler). 
For Paramount Pictures, he played the diabolical husband of Ashley Judd's character in (1999, featuring Lance Spellerberg) for which he was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award and portrayed the national security advisor in (2000, with Gordon Clapp, David Graf, Thomas Knickerbocker, Richard McGonagle and Scott Alan Smith). Subsequent film credits include Paramount's (2003, with Glenn Morshower, Matt Winston, and Alfre Woodard), (2004, co-starring James Cromwell), and (2005, co-starring Wendie Malick and featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg). 
Greenwood was nominated by the Genie Awards for his performance in (2004). He then had a major role in (2005), in which he played the title character's lover, Jack Dunphy. In this film, Greenwood co-starred with Clifton Collins, Jr., whom he again worked with on Star Trek. Greenwood, Collins, and the other principal cast members from Capote all shared a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Greenwood has acted in two films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer: (2006, with Scott Klace and Scott Alan Smith) and (2007, featuring Alicia Coppola and Larry Cedar). In the latter, Greenwood again played the role of a US President.
He worked with Steven Culp for a second time in (2007). Greenwood played a fictional character named Keenan Jones in (2007), for which he, his cast members, and the film's casting directors won the Robert Altman Award from the Independent Spirit Awards. 
Greenwood provided the voice of DC Comics' Bruce Wayne/Batman in (2010). He voiced the same role in . This movie also featured the voices of Brian George, Dwight Schultz, and Wade Andrew Williams. Greenwood's Star Trek Into Darkness co-star, Peter Weller, also voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in (2012-13).
Greenwood's other credits include (2010, with Patrick Fischler), (2010, with Saul Rubinek) and (2010). The following year, he appeared as "Cooper" in , which was written, produced and directed by Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director-producer J.J. Abrams. "Cooper" was the on-set nickname for the CGI creature in the film; Greenwood performed the role through motion capture, providing the movements and facial expressions of the creature. The film also featured appearances by Jason Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Amanda Foreman, composer Michael Giacchino (who also scored the film), Tim Griffin, Tony Guma, and Marco Sanchez. Many of the creative staff involved with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness also worked on Super 8, including producer Bryan Burk, casting directors April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg, film editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, and aforementioned composer Michael Giacchino.
Greenwood's more recent films have included (2012, with Bruce McGill), (2012), (2013, with Harris Yulin), the comedy And Now a Word From Our Sponsor (2013), (2013, with Gary Weeks), (2013), and (2014).
His later productions include Westside (2013), the romance Lost Luck (2013), and (2014).
=== Television ===
Greenwood made his career breakthrough playing Dr. Seth Griffin on from 1986 through 1988. During his time on this series, he co-starring William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., Christina Pickles, Ronny Cox, Norman Lloyd, France Nuyen, Jennifer Savidge, and Alfre Woodard. 
Greenwood was previously a regular on CBC's . In 1984, he starred in NBC's Legman and made two appearances on the ABC series Jessie, starring Kate Mulgrew.
In the 1989 television movie Spy, Greenwood starred opposite actress Catherine Hicks, who played his ex-wife. That same year, Greenwood also starred in , where he played a Nazi SS officer who, after plastic surgery, was portrayed by his Star Trek co-star Ben Cross. Greenwood then assumed the role of the SS officer's son set twenty years later in the second half of the film. John Glover also starred in the film, playing a Holocaust victim turned Israeli intelligence officer.
Greenwood's work in the 1990 television movie The Little Kidnappers earned him a Gemini nomination as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1991, he appeared in two episodes of , starring Christina Pickles, with Robert Beltran and Tony Plana). He followed this with a recurring role as Pierce Lawton on CBS' .
He co-starred with actor Tim Russ and Voyager guest actress Virginia Madsen in the 1994 television movie Bitter Vengeance. He won a Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor for his appearance in a 1994 episode of Road to Avonlea. During the 1995-96 TV season, Greenwood starred on UPN's , along with Megan Gallagher. 
Greenwood was also a regular on such shows as (1994, with Mike Starr) and NBC's Sleepwalkers (1997-1998, with Harry Groener and Ray Wise). In addition, he made recurring appearances on The Larry Sanders Show (1997-1998, with Wallace Langham and Scott Thompson). 
Greenwood had a role in (2001, with Scott Bakula and Brent Spiner). That same year, Greenwood starred in the drama Haven, for which he received a third Gemini Award nomination. In 2002, Greenwood co-starred with James Cromwell in (2002). He then starred with Leslie Hope in (2004). He starred opposite Jim Beaver, Willie Garson and Matt Winston in the HBO series John from Cincinnati (2007) and worked alongside Stephen McHattie and Christopher Plummer in (2008). He also starred in , on which Leslie Hope and Daniel Zacapa was also a regular. 
Greenwood voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in (2010-2013). Others who have lent their voices to this series include René Auberjonois, Miguel Ferrer, Jason Marsden, Nolan North, Kevin Michael Richardson, Mark Rolston, and Marina Sirtis. In 2015 he joined the cast for the final season of Mad Men, appearing in four episodes as Richard Burghoff. In 2016 he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for this work in the category Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series which he shared with fellow Trek alumni Kevin Rahm. 
Greenwood starred as Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti in Ryan Murphy's legal drama American Crime Story opposite Michael McGrady.
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional film and television projects in which Greenwood worked with other Star Trek alumni are:
* Striker's Mountain (1985 TV movie) with Robin Gammell
* Danger Bay episode "Lady Raven" (1986) with Kerrie Keane
* Destination America (1987 TV movie) directed by Corey Allen
* Jake and the Fatman episode "Fatal Attraction" (1987) with James Avery, Jim Beaver, Fran Bennett and Tina Lifford
* In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (1988 TV movie) co-starring Ronny Cox, Deborah May and David Soul
* Pursuit (1989 TV movie) with John Glover
* Rio Diablo (1993 TV movie) with Marc Alaimo
* Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993 TV movie) with Saul Rubinek
* Heart of a Child (1994 TV movie) with Terry O'Quinn
* The Companion (1994 TV movie) with Tracey Walter
* Dazzle (1995 TV movie) with Natalia Nogulich
* Tell Me No Secrets (1997 TV movie) with Irene Tsu and Tracey Walter
* Thick as Thieves (1998 film) with Erich Anderson
* The Color of Courage (1999 TV movie) co-starring David Andrews and Roger Cross
* Hollywood Homicide (2003 film) with Gregg Daniel, Clyde Kusatsu and James G. MacDonald
* The Life (2004 TV movie) with Brian Markinson
* The World's Fastest Indian (2005 film) with William Lucking and Eric Pierpoint
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