Biography for
                         Paul Gross

                         Height
                              5' 11" 
                         Spouse
                               Martha Burns 
                                          (1987 - present)
                       

                              Paul Gross is the eldest of two brothers.   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, 


                    
                              (Summer 2000) Playing Hamlet at Canada's Stratford Festival 


                              Composes and performs music with actor David Keeley 

                              He and Burns have a daughter and a son 

                          

                              His daughter's name is Hannah and his son is named Jack




 Paul Gross was born on 30th
                                                    April 1959 (making him a Taurus), in Calgary, Alberta.
                                                    His father was a Tank Commander in the Canadian
                                                    Army, and consequently, Paul and his family moved
                                                    around when he was young. They lived in places as
                                                    diverse as England, Canada, Germany and Washington DC. At
                                                    the age of five, whilst he was at school in Camberley,
                                                    Surrey, Paul claims politeness was instilled in him "by a
                                                    good solid English beating with a wooden spoon".

                                                    After leaving school, he studied Drama at the University
                                                    of Alberta at Edmonton. Not just a pretty face, he is also
                                                    an award-winning playwright and actor on stage and
                                                    screen. He was nominated for a Dora Award for Romeo
                                                    & Juliet in 1985, and won a Dora Award for his part in
                                                    Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The
                                                    Somme, in 1988. More recently, he has won a Gemini
                                                    Award two years running for his role as RCMP Const.
                                                    Benton Fraser in Due South. Acting was his chosen
                   profession mainly because he gave up maths at school, which tends to limit your choices!

                   Besides playing Fraser, he has played the role of a Mountie once before. It was in a Theatre
                   production in Ottawa in 1985. Also in the cast was a young actress named Martha Burns, who played
                   a squaw. Paul says it was love at first sight, and they married three years later. They now live in
                   Toronto with their two children Hanna (7), and Jack (4). He also plays guitar, skis, swims, skates,
                   sings, and is a genuninely modest guy. Is there anything he can't do? Yup. Go places without women
                   swooning in his wake!

                   At the 1995 Gemini Awards (the Canadian Emmys), which Paul co-hosted, he sang one of his songs,
                   Ride Forever. For the finale of the song, a curtain pulled back to reveal the RCMP Choir in full Dress
                   Uniform, to a rapturous reception.
                   As well as writing episodes of Due South (All The Queen's Horses, Red, White or Blue, Burning
                   Down The House, Mounty On The Bounty and Call Of The Wild) he has also written a couple of
                   screenplays, which he would like to star in and direct in the near future. They promise to be nothing
                   like the character of Benton Fraser - he discribes them as "grisly little dramas." 

                   1997 has seen Paul busier than ever in his career - not only is he portraying the role of Fraser in Due
                   South, he has also written many of the new episodes and is Executive producer. In the fall of this year,
                   he and his songwriting partner, David Keeley have a new CD entitled Two Houses, released in
                   Canada by Lenz Entertainment.