Bruce Greenwood Net Worth

Bruce Greenwood's Quotes

• [on performing in the horror movie Cell 213 (2011)]: I was only on the set for about 10 days but I was trying for some edgier stuff, some different decisions. I asked the director what this guy was about, what he does, and he said 'He smells people'. So there were scenes where I really did a lot of sniffing. I spent a lot of time breathing people in and flaring my nostrils.
• [on his digitally-coded performance in Super 8 (2011)]: It's not your typical acting exercise at all, because you're really the only person in this room with all the cameras in it. It was a very weird thing to offer up all this big emotion while the rest of the people in the room are picking away at the craft services table.
• [on undertaking the role of Dr. Emmett Code in The River (2012)]: I've played a lot of people who have hidden agendas or have reached bottom, who are not particularly savoury. This is a guy who believes deeply in his love for his wife, his son, and is just happy to wake up in the morning.

Interesting Facts about Bruce Greenwood

1. Is an avid musician and relaxes by singing and playing his electric guitar.
2. Bruce was in grade school in Bethesda, Maryland during the Cuban Missile Crisis and remembers the preparations for possible war vividly.
3. Auditioned for the roles of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope (1994) and Mike Ryan on Almost Perfect (1995).
4. Stopped smoking after the pilot of Nowhere Man (1995).
5. Owns the tuxedo he wore in Treacherous Beauties (1994).
6. Began making talking books, which employs his penchant for dialects. [1996]
7. Loves to pepper his speech with sound effects and foreign accents.
8. Filmed a public service message for Northwest Medical Teams on the plight of Romanian orphans while on Nowhere Man (1995).
9. Won a Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role for his performance of Caleb Stokes in Road to Avonlea (1990) (1995). Bruce was also nominated for a Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance of Dr. Willem Hooft in The Little Kidnappers (1990) (1990).
10. Broke his ankle filming The Climb (1986) while on location in the mountains of Pakistan. [1985]
11. Initially, Bruce refused his breakthrough role in St. Elsewhere (1982) because he was filming the movie Another Chance (1989) but managed to work on both jobs simultaneously for several weeks.
12. Had a year-long contract with Warner Brothers to do television pilots. [1984]
13. Resided in a two-bedroom apartment in Laurel Canyon after moving to Los Angeles and drove a 1972 Toyota pick-up truck. Bruce did not own an operable television set for many years after his move to Los Angeles.
14. Dated his wife for the first time when they were both 15 (around 1971). Bruce has been married since 1985 and has known his wife since the early 1970s.
15. Auditioned for an important role in the horror sequel Psycho II (1983). [1982]
16. Was supplementing his theatrical career with a job in a chemical factory when he unexpectedly got the role in his first movie, Bear Island (1979).
17. Was working on a drilling crew in Northern Alberta when a director called with a role in the musical "Cruel Tears".
18. Broke his leg during a dance routine in the touring company of "Cruel Tears". He damaged the same leg in a motorcycle accident three days after the cast came off, a little stunt that left him on crutches for eight more months.
19. Has played a life-sized puppet in best friend Norman Foote's earliest shows for children.
20. Once worked as a diamond driller in the Northwest Territories to earn money to study at the London Central School of Speech and Learning. He left college one year short of graduation to visit Greece and work on a sailboat -- still his favorite job, ever. He bought a motorcycle the year after that to cruise the United States.