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Bruce was born in Tanzania to a Scottish father and an English mother.
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Alison Bruce
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International viewers may know her for her parts in teen series Being Eve and guest roles on Xena: Warrior Princess. Her family moved to New Zealand when she was around eight. After training at Auckland"s Theatre Corporate in the early 1980s, she began a busy acting career with stage roles that include starring in Hamlet (as Ophelia) and Cyrano de Bergerac (as Roxane).
Bruce made her screen debut in 1984 teleplay The Minders.
Since then she has acted in more than 30 screen roles, including sizeable parts in two feature films: 1990 chase comedy User Friendly, in which her character steals a keenly-sought dog statue from a crazed former boss. And 2001 feature Magik and Rose, which Bruce later described as a turning point in terms of the type of roles she is offered.
The comedy-drama saw Bruce playing Magik, a fortune-teller who arrives in a Kiwi town in a house-truck, seeking the daughter she gave up for adoption many years before. Bruce also acted in based-on-a-true-story feature The World"s Fastest Indian (as a doctor) and short film Mon Desir, which was selected to play in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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