Bruce Payne

Birth Name:

Bruce Martyn Payne

Birth Place:

Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Actor, Producer, Writer, Soundtrack, Sound department, Assistant director, Script department

When he graduated from RADA in 1981, he already had seven major prizes for acting, comedy and physical presence to his name
Before being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he worked as a joiner, a salesman and a landscape gardener
Quote: "If I'm allowed to, in terms of time, I really like to get into the character․"
Best known for playing villains, including Charles Rane in "Passenger 57," Jacob Kell in "Highlander: Endgame" and Damodar in "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God․"
Was a member of the 1980s Brit Pack, a group of young British actors who were interviewed together by Elissa Van Poznak for "The Face" magazine who went on to achieve simultaneous success in Hollywood
According to his immediate family, when he was a young boy watching his brother in a play, he ran on stage during a dramatic moment to stop his brother from being eaten by a crocodile
During his studies at RADA, he performed a self-written and directed adaptation of "Macbeth" in which Hamlet wields a baseball bat instead of a sword for Queen Elizabeth II

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