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name: "Dylan Bruce"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 April 1980"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-17T18:25:59.481931+00:00"
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# Dylan Bruce

Actor. Born 21 April 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 April 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Also known as:** Dylan L. Bruce
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Bruce, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5318700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1851313/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142206

## Fi1m on Dylan Bruce

> Dylan Bruce is television's man in the good coat: the soldier or the minder whose loyalties turn when the plot requires it. He is steady, unhurried and hard to read, and on *Orphan Black* he was hard to read to a fault.

Paul Dierden stands in a doorway in the first season of *Orphan Black* (2013) and watches a woman who is not who he thinks she is, and for several episodes the question is whose side he is on. Bruce plays it stock still, jaw set, eyes giving away nothing at all. That stillness is his trade. He is cast, again and again, as the military or mercenary type whose allegiance is the plot's to spend, and he has the build and the level voice for it.

He learned the job the fast way. After university he went into modelling in Seattle, then small television parts from 2005, and then around a hundred episodes as Chris Hughes on the daytime soap *As the World Turns* (2007–2008). He is unapologetic about it: "No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error." His first film was *Unstoppable* (2010), for Tony Scott, and then came *Orphan Black*, four seasons as Paul, the monitor and the love interest. Around and after it he has worked steadily in genre television: *Arrow* (2013–2014) as Adam Donner, *Heroes Reborn* (2015), *American Gothic* (2016), leads in *Midnight, Texas* (2017–2018) as Bobo Winthrop and *The Murders* (2019), and more recently *Tracker* (2024) and *We Were Liars* (2025).

The trouble with Paul is that the writing made him a mystery and Bruce made him a blank, and those are not the same thing. We spent the better part of two seasons watching his face for a tell and never found one, which is reasonable in a man paid to watch someone and less reasonable in a man supposed to be falling for her. Opposite Tatiana Maslany, who is playing several people at once and letting us see the seams, one unchanging register looks small. He becomes one more man in a coat explaining the previous season, and the show already had enough of those.

The soap habit of getting it right in one take is a virtue on a schedule and a limit in a character. Bruce is at his best when we are not meant to be sure of him; when we are meant to care, he needs a director prepared to make him blink. Watch *Orphan Black* for Maslany, and count him as the door she keeps having to get past.

## Biography

Dylan Bruce is a Canadian actor. He was born on 21 April 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in drama and economics.

Bruce began his career with modelling work before moving into acting. He is known for his role as Chris Hughes in the soap opera *As the World Turns* (2007–2008) and as Paul Dierden in the series *Orphan Black* (2013–2016). Other credits include recurring roles in *Arrow* (2012–2013) and *Heroes Reborn* (2015), and appearances in *Unstoppable* (2010) and *Flowers in the Attic* (2014).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Orphan Black* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Paul Dierden — [page](https://film.one/tv/orphan-black.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *We Were Liars* (2025), series, as Brody Sheffield
- *The Unrestricted War* (2025), as Jim
- *The Spiderwick Chronicles* (2024), series, as Tanner Kent
- *Tracker* (2024), series, as Nate Riggins
- *Francesca Quinn, PI* (2022), as Wyn
- *The Christmas Promise* (2021), as Joe
- *Search and Destroy* (2020), as John Cutter
- *The Murders* (2019), series, as Nolan Wells
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), series, as Matt McGrady
- *Midnight, Texas* (2017), series, as Bobo Winthrop
- *First Round Down* (2017), as Tim Tucker
- *American Gothic* (2016), series, as Tom Price
- *Heroes Reborn* (2015), series, as Captain James Dearing
- *A Novel Romance* (2015), as Liam Bradley
- *Petals on the Wind* (2014), as Bart Winslow
- *Flowers in the Attic* (2014), as Bart
- *Orphan Black* (2013), series, as Paul Dierden — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/orphan-black.md)
- *Willed to Kill* (2013), as Mark Hanson
- *Arrow* (2012), series, as Adam Donner
- *Love's Christmas Journey* (2011), as Michael
- *Unstoppable* (2010), as Michael Colson
- *The Bay* (2010), series, as Brian Nelson
- *24: Conspiracy* (2005), series, as Martin Kail
- *CSI: NY* (2004), series, as Young Man
- *Joey* (2004), series, as Waiter
- *NCIS* (2003), series, as Justin Fanniker
- *Las Vegas* (2003), series, as Anthony

## Gallery

- ![Dylan Bruce](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-e65ebb6c2be1.jpg) Dylan Bruce — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Dylan_Bruce_March_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Graeme Manson with actor Dylan Bruce and Katrina Bonds at the CFC event in L.A. Photos by: Jesse Grant (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-5d3d559d47bf.jpg) Graeme Manson with actor Dylan Bruce and Katrina Bonds at the CFC event in L.A. Photos by: Jesse Grant (2015) — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/CFC_in_L.A._-_Manson%2C_Bruce_and_Bonds_March_2015.jpg/1280px-CFC_in_L.A._-_Manson%2C_Bruce_and_Bonds_March_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Dylan Bruce and John Fawcett at the CFC event in L.A. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-c4352834ed55.jpg) Actor Dylan Bruce and John Fawcett at the CFC event in L.A. (2015) — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Dylan_Bruce_%26_John_Fawcett.jpg/1280px-Dylan_Bruce_%26_John_Fawcett.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dylan Bruce at Fan Expo Canada in 2013](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-daa866fefeae.jpg) Dylan Bruce at Fan Expo Canada in 2013 — Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Dylan_Bruce_%289581721637%29.jpg/1280px-Dylan_Bruce_%289581721637%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dylan Bruce](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-b665dd76f386.jpg) Dylan Bruce — Image via TMDB
- ![Dylan Bruce](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-d2c89784a21b.jpg) Dylan Bruce — Image via TMDB
- ![Dylan Bruce](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-00432738f18c.jpg) Dylan Bruce — Image via TMDB
- ![Dylan Bruce in 2013](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-984f20f243f3.jpg) Dylan Bruce in 2013 — tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Dylan_Bruce_2013.jpg/1280px-Dylan_Bruce_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Orphan Black cast members in 2014: Ari Millen, Kristian Bruun, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris and Tatiana Maslany](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-292760168295.jpg) Orphan Black cast members in 2014: Ari Millen, Kristian Bruun, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris and Tatiana Maslany — Tristan Loper, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Orphan_black_0001.jpg/1280px-Orphan_black_0001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dylan Bruce](https://film.one/media/person/952592/gallery-57f92f14191d.jpg) Dylan Bruce — Image via TMDB

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