Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor. He is generally known for his roles as the President of the United States in National Treasure: Book of Secrets and Thirteen Days and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film.

Greenwood is known in the U.S. for his appearances in Star Trek, I, Robot, The Core, Double Jeopardy, Thirteen Days (in which he played president John F. Kennedy), Capote (in which he played Jack Dunphy, Truman Capote's lover), and more recently Eight Below (in which he played Professor Davis McClaren) and Firehouse Dog (in which he was the captain after the death of his brother). He has had prominent roles in the award winning films Ararat, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, all directed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan. He also appeared in the 1980s teen cult film The Malibu Bikini Shop and starred in Mee-Shee: The Water Giant. He played a role in The World's Fastest Indian and also featured in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There.

On television Greenwood has had roles on St. Elsewhere (Dr. Seth Griffin, 1986-1988), Knots Landing (Pierce Lawton, 1991-1992) and the UPN series Nowhere Man (Thomas Veil, 1995-1996). He also guest starred on the popular Canadian show Road to Avonlea for one episode. He won a Gemini® Award for this role as "Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor".

On 10 June 2007 a new show on HBO from David Milch (the creator of Deadwood) called John from Cincinnati premiered, starring Greenwood.

Greenwood also appears as the President of the United States in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

He will play Russian-American Xavier Yelcov in S.M.A.S.H.

Bruce Greenwood also played one of Americans favorite band Drummers Dennis Wilson in Summer Dreams: Story of the Beach Boys.