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Bruce Greenwood parents: Meet Hugh John Greenwood, Mary Sylvia Ledingham

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Canadian actor and producer Stuart Bruce Greenwood was born on August 12, 1956. He rose to fame for his roles as Captain Christopher Pike in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie reboot series and as US President John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days, for which he received the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He is up for three Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the films The Sweet Hereafter and Being Julia, respectively.

In addition to playing JFK in Thirteen Days, Bill Sokal, the National Security Advisor in Rules of Engagement, Bob Andrews, the Father of the Bride, Stuart Ramsey, and Nick Parsons in Double Jeopardy, he also garnered fame for these performances, Earl Cavanaugh in Here on Earth, Anthony ‘Tony’ Leighton in Swept Away, Cmdr. Robert Iverson in The Core, Lt. Bennie Macko in Hollywood Homicide, Lawrence Robertson in I, Robot, Lord Charles in Being Julia, and many others.

Some of his most well-known TV roles include Dr. Randolph Bell from The Resident, Gil Garcetti from American Crime Story, Emmet Cole from The River, Mitch Yost from John from Cincinnati, Dr. Nathan Bradford from Sleepwalkers, Thomas Veil from Nowhere Man, Jack Gage from Legmen, Pierce Lawton from Knot’s Landing, and Dr. Seth Griffin from St. Elsewhere.He has played Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated series Young Justice and other Batman cartoons. In the anime series Class Titans, he also provided the voice of Chiron.

Bruce Greenwood’s parents: Meet Hugh John Greenwood, Mary Sylvia Ledingham

Mary Sylvia Greenwood, a nurse who worked in an extended care unit, and Hugh John Greenwood, a geophysicist and professor from Vancouver who taught at Princeton University, are Bruce’s parents. On the internet, not much is known about Bruce Greenwood’s parents as of the time this article was being written.