Bruce Greenwood

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Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born 12 August 1956; age 51), better known simply as Bruce Greenwood, is the Canadian actor who will play Christopher Pike in the upcoming Star Trek. He will be taking over the role from the late Jeffrey Hunter, who portrayed Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage". [1]

Hailing from Noranda, Quebec, Greenwood studied philosophy and economics at the University of British Columbia.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Television

Greenwood made his career breakthrough playing Dr. Seth Griffin on the popular series St. Elsewhere from 1986 through 1988. During his time on this series, he co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Ed Begley, Jr., Ronny Cox, Norman Lloyd, France Nuyen, Jennifer Savidge, and Alfre Woodard.

He was previously a regular on the short-lived CBC series Huckleberry Finn and His Friends. In 1984, he starred in the short-lived NBC series Legman and made two appearances on the ABC series Jessie, starring Kate Mulgrew.

In the 1989 TV movie Spy, Greenwood starred opposite Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home actress Catherine Hicks, who played his ex-wife. His work in the 1990 TV movie The Little Kidnappers earned him a Gemini nomination as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. This was followed with a recurring role on Knots Landing.

He co-starred with Star Trek: Voyager actor Tim Russ and Voyager guest actress Virginia Madsen in the 1994 TV movie Bitter Vengeance. An appearance on a 1994 episode of Road to Avonlea earned Greenwood as Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor. During the 1995-96 TV season, he starred on the acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated UPN series Nowhere Man (co-starring Megan Gallagher).

Greenwood has also been a regular on such shows as Fox's Hardball (with Mike Starr) and NBC's Sleepwalkers (with Harry Groener and Ray Wise). In addition, he made recurring appearances on The Larry Sanders Show (with Wallace Langham and Scott Thompson).

Greenwood had a role in the 2001 movie A Girl Thing, as did Scott Bakula and Brent Spiner. That same year, Greenwood starred in the drama Haven, for which he received a third Genie Award nomination.

He more recently starred opposite Jim Beaver, Willie Garson and Matt Winston in the HBO series John from Cincinnati. He also recently completed filming the mini-series The Summit with Stephen McHattie and Christopher Plummer.

[edit] Film

On film, Greenwood is perhaps best known for starring as President John F. Kennedy in 2000's Thirteen Days. This film co-starred Star Trek: Enterprise actor Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy and also featured the likes of Len Cariou, Kevin Conway, Charles Esten, Tim Kelleher, Boris Lee 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, Drama.

Greenwood made his film debut in the 1979 thriller Bear Island. He then appeared in the first Rambo film, 1982's First Blood. His first major film roles were in the cult comedy The Malibu Bikini Shop (with Jay Robinson, Jon Rashad Kamal and Charlie Brill) and in the biographical adventure The Climb, both released in 1986.

He has worked with Egyptian director Atom Egoyan on three films: 1994's Exotica, 1997's The Sweet Hereafter, and 2002's Ararat. His work on Sweet Hereafter earned him a nomination from the Genie Awards. One of his co-stars on Ararat was Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country's Christopher Plummer.

Greenwood co-starred with Star Trek: The Next Generation's Denise Crosby and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Armin Shimerman in the direct-to-video thriller Dream Man.

He also had supporting roles in movies such as Passenger 57 (with Robert Hooks), Fathers' Day (1997, with Charles Rocket), and Disturbing Behavior (co-starring William Sadler). For Paramount, he played Ashley Judd's character's diabolical husband in the 1999 thriller Double Jeopardy and portrayed the national security advisor in 2000's Rules of Engagement (with Gordon Clapp and David Graf).

More recent film credits include Paramount's 2003 science fiction thriller The Core (with Glenn Morshower and the aforementioned Alfre Woodard), the sci-fi action epic I, Robot (co-starring James Cromwell), and the family-oriented Racing Stripes (featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg). He was nominated by the Genie Awards for his performance in the 2004 comic drama Being Julia. He had a major role in the Academy Award-nominated Capote (playing the title character's love, Jack Dunphy), co-starring with Clifton Collins, Jr., whom he will again work with on Star Trek.

Greenwood also co-starred in the acclaimed 2006 movies Eight Below and Deja Vu and worked with Steven Culp for a second time in 2007's Firehouse Dog. He most recently appeared in National Treasure: Book of Secrets (which also featured Alicia Coppola and Larry Cedar), in which he again played a US President.

[edit] Other Trek connections

Additional film and television projects in which Greenwood worked with other Star Trek alumni are:

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