Bruce Ramsay (born December 31, 1966) is a Canadian film, television
and stage actor.Ramsay's screen debut was opposite fellow Montrealer
Elias Koteas in the film Malarek (1988). Ramsay and Koteas went on to
appear in two other films together, Hit Me (1996), and Collateral
Damage (2002). Ramsay's first lead in a major motion picture came when
he was cast as Carlitos Paez in director Frank Marshall's film Alive
(1993), the biographical survival drama based upon Piers Paul Read's
1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which detailed the
story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed into the Andes
mountains.In 2011 Ramsay made his directorial debut with Hamlet
(2011). Ramsay also produced, wrote the adaptation, and starred as
Hamlet. Hamlet premiered in competition at the Vancouver International
Film Festival in 2011.Ramsay appeared as the jaded house boy Carlucci
opposite Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra
(2013), directed by Steven Soderbergh, about the last ten years in the
life of pianist Liberace. Behind the Candelabra marked the second time
that Ramsay had worked with Soderbergh. In 1995, Ramsay appeared in
The Professional Man, part of The Showtime film noir series Fallen
Angels, starring opposite Peter Coyote and Brendan Fraser.
and stage actor.Ramsay's screen debut was opposite fellow Montrealer
Elias Koteas in the film Malarek (1988). Ramsay and Koteas went on to
appear in two other films together, Hit Me (1996), and Collateral
Damage (2002). Ramsay's first lead in a major motion picture came when
he was cast as Carlitos Paez in director Frank Marshall's film Alive
(1993), the biographical survival drama based upon Piers Paul Read's
1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which detailed the
story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed into the Andes
mountains.In 2011 Ramsay made his directorial debut with Hamlet
(2011). Ramsay also produced, wrote the adaptation, and starred as
Hamlet. Hamlet premiered in competition at the Vancouver International
Film Festival in 2011.Ramsay appeared as the jaded house boy Carlucci
opposite Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra
(2013), directed by Steven Soderbergh, about the last ten years in the
life of pianist Liberace. Behind the Candelabra marked the second time
that Ramsay had worked with Soderbergh. In 1995, Ramsay appeared in
The Professional Man, part of The Showtime film noir series Fallen
Angels, starring opposite Peter Coyote and Brendan Fraser.
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