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Paul Michael Gross (born on 30 April , 1959 ), is a Canadian Actor , Producer , Director , Singer and Writer born in Calgary , Alberta . He has two children, Jack and Hannah, with fellow actor Martha Burns whom he married in 1987 . Paul married award-winning actress Martha Burns in September 1988, having met her while they were both performing in Walsh at the The National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Burns was an Indian Princess and Gross was a mountie. At the time of their wedding Paul was finishing work on Getting Married In Buffalo Jump and Martha was appearing in a production of Blood Wedding. Martha is a founder of the Toronto Arts For Youth Association and the Soulpepper theatre company. The family shares a home with Chester, their golden retriever, in Toronto. He is internationally best known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series '' Due South ''. CHILDHOOD As an army brat, Paul and his family rarely spending more than two years in one place. They lived in England , Germany and the USA before settling back in Canada in the 1970s. Besides Calgary , Alberta Paul has lived in the province of New Brunswick and in Toronto , Ontario . While living in Camberley, England, Paul attended Cheswyks School in nearby Frimley Green. He left after two years, speaking with a proper British accent and able to use a butter knife. "I always say I was civilised by England," he has jokingly said. Around 1969 or 1970 he lived in New Brunswick while his father was stationed at Gagetown with the Dragoons . He moved to Washington during his early teens and his drama teacher gave him the inspiration to work as an actor. Paul also began a study of the world's major religions during this time. He finished high school at the Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario. He spent the summer working as a gofer at the Stratford Festival box office when he was 16. DUE SOUTH Paul Gross' character in Due South is a Mountie who comes to Chicago in order to find the killers of his father. He does, but in so doing implicates several members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the killing, and on charges of internal corruption. With this in mind, he decides to remain in Chicago and act as "liaison" between the Chicago Police Department and the Canadian Consulate . However, during the show all he is seen to do is solve crimes with his friend Detective Ray Vecchio ( David Marciano ) and his life-long companion Diefenbaker a deaf half-wolf. Benton Fraser is the archetypal Mountie, dogged, polite and compulsively truthful. The themes of the series often featured his ridged moral code being tested by the realities of Chicago life. In the third and fourth series, Benton was partnered with another street-wise detective assuming the role of Ray Vecchio while he is under cover, his real name being Detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski . Callum Keith Rennie stars as the charming yet disturbed detective. Although the change of partner inevitably gave the show a different tone, all due South's trademark features continued to shine through - the wit, warmth and surrealism remaining intact as well as the central dynamic of the relationship between the Mountie and the Chicago cop. And Callum's introduction as Stanley Raymond Kowalski brought a renewed edge and revitalised the show's premise. After the show was cancelled twice by CBS , third and fourth seasons were commissioned by foreign television companies, with Paul Gross as Executive Producer . Gross himself was the first to say that he did not know what his new post would entail. In addition to this role, he wrote the season three opener "Burning Down the House" , the two part season three finale "Mountie on the Bounty" and the two part series finale "Call of the Wild". Gross also wrote and sung songs in the show (including season three's "Robert Mackenzie"), some of which can be found on the two Due South Soundtracks . CAREER Amongst his many other roles over the years, before and since Due South, he has portrayed:
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