Bruce Alexander

As Sergeant Grey...

Sergeant Grey is very much the country cop. He is fairly much the sole law enforcer in Pearl Bay - at least he sees it that way. It must be said that Sergeant Grey could never in any way be called bent. He is not corrupt. He interprets the law's requirements in his own personal way. He will be the first to inform you that the country demands quite a different style of law enforcement than the city.

As Bruce Alexander...

At the age of 15, Bruce anticipated studying Fine Arts but a misunderstanding led him to undertake a plumbing apprenticeship instead. Then chance association led Bruce to partake in his first stage production. "It was a horrible musical, but I loved the job." So Bruce became an apprentice by day and studied acting by night.

In 1979 he went to England where he trained at East 15 in London and did repertory theatre. After returning to Australia he was involved in a variety of theatre groups, including the MTC and Playbox.

Inspired by other forms of performance, Bruce started training in Butoh, Japanese and European theatre forms. He is now committed to such theatre performance and has established a theatre company called Arthouse Theatre Company. Here he works with a regular core group of actors and trains actors in acting and movement forms.

He has written eight plays including A Fifth of Love, A Bottle of Whisky, which he also directed when it was performed at the Athenaeum in 1996. He adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth and played the title role in the 1997 sellout season at the Universal Theatre. In 1998 he wrote and directed the highly succesful One Night with Venus. Bruce has also written two film scripts, and has appeared in numerous films and television series including The Bite, Snowy, Stark, Janus, River Street, Stan and George's New Life and Father.

Bruce accepted his role in SeaChange on the strength of a script Andrew Knight had written. "I love the words and enjoy creating the emotions of such a character. And it's fun being the bad guy."