A handsome, light-haired leading man, Bruce Greenwood originally wanted to be a professional skier, but an injury forced him to abandon that dream. He turned to acting while a student at the University of British Columbia in his native Canada. After graduating, he landed small roles in the features "Bear Island" (1980) and "First Blood" (1982). Greenwood spent a year touring as a singer-guitarist with a rock band before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He landed his first series, the short-lived "Legmen" (NBC, 1984), in which he played a college student earning extra money by working for a seedy private detective (Claude Akins). Although a key role in the NBC TV-movie "Peyton Place: The Next Generation" followed, he first came to attention as Dr. Seth Griffin, the brash doctor who finds religion when he contracts AIDS in the NBC medical drama "St. Elsewhere" (from 1986 to 1988). More TV-movie roles followed, including "Spy" (USA, 1989) and "Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys" (Abc 1990), in which he played Dennis Wilson. Greenwood also had a one-year stint on "Knots Landing" (CBS, 1991-92) as Pierce Lawton, a man seeking revenge for losing all his money in a business scheme that went south. He went on to headline the very short-lived baseball sitcom "Hardball" (Fox, 1994) as a wisecracking veteran pitcher. In 1995, Greenwood starred in two miniseries, "Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge" (NBC), as Naomi Judd's husband, and "Judith Krantz's 'Dazzle'" (CBS). He was also featured as a first-time father-to-be in the NBC TV-movie "Danielle Steel's 'Mixed Blessings'". That same year, he was cast in "Nowhere Man," the first drama for the fledgling UPN Network. The show earned a cult following and he became a TV star thanks to his role as Thomas Veil, a documentary photographer who appears to have his entire identity erased forcing him to begin a desperate and dangerous quest to discover why this happened and who is behind it. Greenwood has had occasional roles in features, including a co-starring part as a security officer coping with a hijacked plane in "Passenger 57" (1992) and the lead in Atom Egoyan's "Exotica" (1994), as a tax inspector obsessed with a stripper. Three years later, he was nearly unrecognizable behind long hair and a bushy mustache as the father of two children killed in a tragic bus accident in Egoyan's superlative "The Sweet Hereafter". Greenwood then turned villainous as a doctor who "treats" unruly teenagers in the thriller "Disturbing Behavior" (1998), playing Ashley Judd's plotting spouse in "Double Jeopardy" (1999), and as a nefarious government official in "Rules of Engagement" (2000). By turning heroic with a terrific, nuanced portrayal of US President John F Kennedy as he negotiated the Cuban Missile Crisis and its fallout in the riveting "Thirteen Days" (2000), the actor was catapulted to a new level of respect. Avoiding caricature, Greenwood depicted Kennedy as a flawed human who managed to rise to the necessary level of heroism to lead the country in a time of crisis. He next stepped into Joseph Cotten's shoes, undertaking the role of inventor Eugene Morgan in the A&E miniseries version of "The Magnificent Ambersons" (2001), which utilized Orson Welles' original 1942 screenplay. In 2002, Greenwood starred in the WWII submarine thriller "Below" and reunited with Atom Egoyan to play a dual role in "Ararat". He essayed the role of Madonna's put-upon husband in director Guy Ritchie's Razzie-winning remake, "Swept Away," and appeared in the cast of the sci-fi thriller "The Core." He next co-starred in the comedy "Hollywood Homicide" (2003) which was directed by Ron Shelton. In “I, Robot” (2004), Alex Proyas’ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s classic book of sci-fi short stories, Hardwired, Greenwood appeared as the megalomaniacal CEO of U.S. Robotics who is suspected of murder by a distrustful detective (Will Smith). After playing the dashing paramour of an aging actress (Annette Bening) in “Being Julia” (2004), he appeared in human form for the combination live-action and animated comedy, “Racing Stripes” (2005). Greenwood went on to play the long-time lover of Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (2005), an intriguing biopic about the eccentric author’s research into a quadruple murder case in Holcomb, Kansas that led to the writing of In Cold Blood.