Paul Gross
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| Name: | Paul Gross |
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| Occupation: | actor, director, screenwriter, producer, occasional musician |
| Medium: | television, film |
| Works: | due South, Slings and Arrows, Wilby Wonderful, Men with Brooms, H2O and The Trojan Horse |
| Official Website(s): | |
| Fan Website(s): | paulgross dot org |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Paul Gross is a Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter. Though perhaps best known and most popular internationally for his role as Benton Fraser in due South, he also earned attention within due South and related fandoms (such as C6D) for a particular stance he took in the music video for his song "Voodoo" -- a stance that became known as Paul Gross arms.
Other popular Gross roles include Geoffrey Tennant in Slings and Arrows, Buddy French in Wilby Wonderful, and Chris Cutter in Men with Brooms.
Occasionally Gross takes up political activism, most recently speaking to a Canadian Senate committee against Bill C-10, which would alter the tax credit system currently in place for Canadian productions.[1]
He is married to Martha Burns, a fellow Canadian actor who co-starred with Gross in Slings and Arrows and appeared in two episodes of Due South (once as a Russian spy and once as a cameo in Call of the Wild as Fraser's mother, Caroline).
Attitude toward Fanfiction
Quoted in the Toronto Globe & Mail, August 8, 1998:
I suppose the character is public ground. If you're willing to bring it into people's houses every week, the [fans] are entitled to certain liberties, wherever their imagination is carried by those characters.[2]
References
- ↑ Macleans.ca blog coverage, retrieved October 6, 2008.
- ↑ Quote lifted from Aristide and Bone's website. The original article is not online (?)
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