Paul GrossPaul Gross (born April 30th, 1959) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer, and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is internationally best known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as the later spin-off, also entitled Due South. He has also played the lead in Hamlet at the Stratford Festival of Canada, and in the Canadian curling movie Men with Brooms. This page about Paul Gross includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Paul Gross News stories about Paul Gross External links for Paul Gross Videos for Paul Gross Wikis about Paul Gross Discussion Groups about Paul Gross Blogs about Paul Gross Images of Paul Gross |
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He has also played the lead in Hamlet at the Stratford Festival of Canada, and in the Canadian curling movie Men with Brooms. Perry Cox. He is internationally best known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as the later spin-off, also entitled Due South. In 2001, McGinley began work on Scrubs as the acerbic Dr. Paul Gross (born April 30th, 1959) is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer, and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He joined forces with Koontz and Fox once more for Sole Survivor in 2000. The four-part miniseries became Fox's highest-rated miniseries. McGinley received critical acclaim for his starring role in Dean Koontz's suspense drama, Intensity (1997). He worked almost continually throughout the 1990s on a swathe of movies, most notably in David Fincher's Seven (1995), and perhaps least notably in the widely disparaged Highlander II: The Quickening (1991). McGinley showcased his screenwriting talents with 1990's Suffering Bastards, in which he also co-starred. That was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next with Talk Radio (1988). While working as John Turturro's understudy in John Patrick Shanley's 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea he was noticed by a casting scout, which led to an audition for the role of Sergeant Red O'Neill in the Oscar winning Platoon, although his first movie role was Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty (1986). Upon completing his education, McGinley did a variety of different work, including on- and off-Broadway productions, and a two year stint on the soap opera Another World. McGinley studied acting at Syracuse University, and later at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He owns a stake in one of Billy Gilroy's New York SoHo bistros along with fellow actor Willem Dafoe. McGinley is known for his cynical, wacky, sometimes sinister character portayals. He came to fame in Oliver Stone's Platoon in 1986, and went on to work on no less than four other Stone productions. McGinley, sometimes credited as John McGinley, has had a most prolific career, primarily as a supporting character actor. John C. McGinley (born August 3, 1959 in New York) is an American actor, producer, and writer. John C. |