BRUCE SPENCE Thenardier

TOURED: Auckland, Perth, Brisbane

BIOGRAPHY:

Bruce began acting in 1969. In Musical Theatre he has appeared in Big River and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. He has appeared in many theatre productions with most major theatre companies in Australia including As You Like It, Macbeth and Mixed Doubles for the Sydney Theatre Company. For the Melbourne Theatre Company Bruce has appeared in Sunday Lunch, A Servant of Two Masters, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Journey's End, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Under Milk Wood, The Playboy of The Western World and Richard III. He has also appeared in Don Juan for the Adelaide Festival, A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, The Floating World for the National Arts Centre in Canada, and the one- person plays, A Stretch of the Imagination and Carboni. Bruce spent several years as a member of the celebrated Australian Performing Group developing, directing and performing in numerous productions mainly new Australian plays. Bruce's many film credits include Moby Dick, Dark City, Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls, Double Take Meets Hercules, The Munsters'Scary Little Christmas, Wendy Cracked A Walnut, Sweet Talker, Rikki and Pete, The Year My Voice Broke, Pallet on the Floor, Birdsville, Mad Max II, Mad Max III, Where the Green Ants Dream, Dimboola, Newsfront, Eliza Fraser, The Cars That Ate Paris and Stork. Bruce has made many television appearances including Tales of the South Seas, Halifax fp., Bullpit, Good Guys, Bad Guys, Over The Hill, Halfway Across The Galaxy and Turn Left, Twisted Tales, Return to Jupiter, Dearest Enemy, Rafferty's Rules, Tanamera, Great Expectations, The Untold Story and Dirtwater Dynasty.

RECENT PROJECTS:

In 2000, Bruce appeared in the STC's The White Devil as part of the Olympic Festival and went on to appear in the tour to New York. Bruce will appear in the the third part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is currently appearing in The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union at Company B's Belvoir St.

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