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Paul Gross
Birthday:
30 April 1959
Birth Name:
Paul Michael Gross
Height:
183 cm
Biography
[on how his nomadic childhood affected his career:] I think it has something to do with reinventing yourself. Every place you move into has a whole new set of rules and behaviours and strictures. So you kind of reinvent yourself to fit into that new environment. That possibly leads you to imagine that acting makes sense because you've developed a flair for b...
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[on how his nomadic childhood affected his career:] I think it has something to do with reinventing yourself. Every place you move into has a whole new set of rules and behaviours and strictures. So you kind of reinvent yourself to fit into that new environment. That possibly leads you to imagine that acting makes sense because you've developed a flair for becoming somebody else.
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It's intriguing to me why the First World War started. It's intriguing that the war continued even after both sides recognized it was hopeless. And it's also intriguing that it ended so ambivalently, leaving the door open for the second one.
It's intriguing to me why the First World War started. It's intriguing that the war continued even after both sides recognized it was hopeless. And it's also intriguing that it ended so ambivalently, leaving the door open for the second one.
[Of the 12 years he worked on the 'Passchendaele" screenplay] It was always sort of special. I remember Clint Eastwood talking about 'Unforgiven'. He really wanted to make it, and he'd take it out like an old treasured watch and he'd look at it - "Not this year" - and he'd put it back in his pocket. But it was always there. I always felt my script was like t...
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[Of the 12 years he worked on the 'Passchendaele" screenplay] It was always sort of special. I remember Clint Eastwood talking about 'Unforgiven'. He really wanted to make it, and he'd take it out like an old treasured watch and he'd look at it - "Not this year" - and he'd put it back in his pocket. But it was always there. I always felt my script was like that.
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[His grandfather's confession that he cold-bloodedly killed a young German soldier led to Gross's fascination with the horror of Passchendaele] It was sort of like a hinge, and a door swung open at that moment onto a life of consequence or adulthood. I can't really put my finger on what it did, but it did change me. And I became very interested in conflict.
[His grandfather's confession that he cold-bloodedly killed a young German soldier led to Gross's fascination with the horror of Passchendaele] It was sort of like a hinge, and a door swung open at that moment onto a life of consequence or adulthood. I can't really put my finger on what it did, but it did change me. And I became very interested in conflict.
Paul Gross
Paul Gross is the elder of two brothers. He was an Army brat; his father, Bob Gross, was a Tank Commander in the Canadian Army. As a consequence Paul and his family moved around a lot: he has lived in Canada, the U.S, England and Germany. Paul was introduced to acting in his early teens, while the Gross family was in Washington. He performed in stage plays such as Canterbury Tales and Faustus. From the age of 14, he appeared in television commercials, which enabled him to pay for his degree in Drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.In 2011, Paul Gross appeared at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto playing Elyot opposite Kim Cattrall's Amanda in the celebrated comedy by Noel Coward, Private Lives.
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