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Date of Birth

30 April 1959, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Birth Name

Paul Michael Gross

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

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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Spouse

Martha Burns

(25 September 1988 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Composes and performs music with actor David Keeley

He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1998 Paul broke a rib while trying to cure himself of the hiccups by using the Heimlich Maneuver.

Admits to 'including hints of homoeroticism' in the final series of "Due South" (1994). He is quoted as saying that his new co-star Callum Keith Rennie was incredibly sexy and that the new series would be very homoerotic.

Has a son, Jack Gross and daughter, Hannah Gross , with wife Martha Burns.

While in Winnipeg, Canada to promote their movie Men with Brooms (2002), he and fellow co-star Leslie Nielsen received honorary citizenship from Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray at the Granite Curling Club on March 2, 2002.

Went to Earl Haig SS in North York in the Claude Watson Arts program.

Personal Quotes

[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.

[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.

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.

Where Are They Now

(April 2003) Working on the television mini-series "Slings and Arrows" (2003) about a stage actor who takes the role of artistic director to stage the Shakespearean play "Hamlet". The play also stars his wife, Martha Burns.