
Bruce Ramsay (born 31 December 1966, Montréal, Québec) is a Canadian film, television, and stage actor, writer, producer, and director, active since 1987. He was born and raised in Montréal and made his screen debut opposite fellow Montrealer Elias Koteas in Malarek (1988). In 2011 he made his directorial debut with a stage and screen adaptation of Hamlet, which he also wrote and starred in. He created, wrote, starred in, and produced the 2022 CBC/BET series The Porter, about the railway sleeping car porters who founded North America's first Black labour union. He released his first novel, Texting with a Gorilla, in 2026. His most notable screen roles include Carlitos Páez in Alive (1993) (Ethan Hawke, Vince Vaughn), Ricardo in Killing Zoe (1994) (Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel), Brandt's Aide in Collateral Damage (2002) (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Carlucci in Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra (2013) (Michael Douglas, Matt Damon), the Mayor in Brick Mansions (2014) (Paul Walker, David Oyelowo), Commander Gendron in 19-2 (2014–2017) (Tom Welling), and Turk Kaczynski in Unabomber (2026) (Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay).

as Turk Kaczynski

as Rivera

as Jimmy

as Dennis

as Levon Villenueve

as Mayor

as Carlucci

as Hamlet

as Garcia

as Officer Ginoble

as Francisco Pizarro

as Bruce

as Daniel Harpin

as Simon Burke

as Silas

as Jake

as Other Actor at Bar

as Gabor Szabo

as ITC Tech

as Vladimir

as Jerry

as Eugene O'Donnell

as Prosecutor

as Brandt's Aide

as Tony Matos

as Young Joseph Bonanno

as Manny

as Del Towbridge

as Eduardo

as Phillip L'Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul Merchant

as Misha

as Kit

as Ricardo

as Carlitos Páez

as Bragg

as Corridor Student

as Fred Malarek

as Teenager