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Kim Coates is a Canadian-American actor who portrayed Bruegel in AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City.
Biography
Coates was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Frederick and Joyce Coates. He first saw a play while attending the University of Saskatchewan, where he enrolled in a drama course as an elective. This experience inspired him to pursue an acting career. Coates portrayed Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and was the youngest ever to play the title role of Macbeth at the Stratford Festival in his native Canada. Coates made his screen debut in the film The Boy in Blue (1986). This role opened up opportunities for him, and he has appeared in over 100 titles to date.
In 2018 he had his first stage role in almost thirty years, playing Johnny "Rooster" Byron in the Outside the March production of Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem. He won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Play at the 2018 Dora Awards. At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards, Coates won the award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for his performance as gangster Declan Gardiner in the television series Bad Blood.
Other Works
- The Amityville Curse
- Innocent Blood
- The Client
- Waterworld
- Battlefield Earth
- Pearl Harbor
- Black Hawk Down
- Silent Hill
- Resident Evil: Afterlife
- Officer Downe
- Night Man
- Prison Break
- CSI: Miami
- Sons of Anarchy
- Crossing Lines
- Godless
- Ghost Wars
- Bad Blood
- Pretty Hard Cases
- Van Helsing
Trivia
- Kim starred alongside Ryan Hurst ("Beta") and Dayton Callie (Jeremiah Otto) in Sons of Anarchy.
External Links
Kim Coates at the Internet Movie Database
Kim Coates on Wikipedia