Gil Bellows

Gil Bellows

Born: June 28, 1967
Age: 57
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Biography

Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal, and as CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency.

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Early life

Bellows was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Magee Secondary School with fellow future actress Carrie-Anne Moss. After graduation, he pursued a career in acting, studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Bellows is known for his first motion picture role as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Also in 1994, he played the lead role Watty Watt in Love and a .45 with Renée Zellweger, as CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency and as Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal. Bellows also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep as Detective Derm, opposite star Jeff Daniels. He appeared in The Weather Man as a perverted rehabilitation counsellor. He was in the films Black Day Blue Night, Snow White: A Tale Of Terror, as Will, and Un amour de sorcière, a French film, as Michael Firth (1997). He has appeared on the Hallmark Channel original film Final Days of Planet Earth and the Canadian television series Terminal City.

In 2007, he completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Joel Rose.

Bellows also played a State Department Officer in 24: Redemption, a television film prequel to the seventh season of 24.

He starred in the Super Channel Science-Fiction adventure thriller film Infected.

Bellows has also appeared as Maxwell Lord on Smallville in the Season 9 episodes "Charade" and "Hostage".

In 2010, Bellows had a recurring role in FlashForward as Timothy, a window-washer who becomes a born again Christian and evangelist after a near-death experience. Bellows also co-starred in the movie Unthinkable that same year.

He co-starred with Steve Austin and Eric Roberts in the 2010 action film Hunt to Kill, and in 2011 co-starred with Macha Grenon and Julia Stone in The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom. He starred in the 2012 feature film Fury. In some Season 2 episodes (2012) of Boss he appeared as a casino investor.

Personal life

Gil Bellows is married to American actress Rya Kihlstedt and has two children.

Filmography and TV appearances

  • The First Season (1988)
  • Law & Order (1991)
  • Flying Blind (1992)
  • Going to Extremes (1993)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • Love and a .45 (1994)
  • Miami Rhapsody (1995)
  • Black Day Blue Night (1995)
  • Silver Strand (1995)
  • Radiant City (1996)
  • The Substance of Fire (1996)
  • White Lies (1997)
  • Witch Way Love (1997)
  • Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
  • The Assistant (1997)
  • Ally McBeal (1997-02)
  • The Practice (1998)
  • Judas Kiss (1998)
  • Dinner at Fred's (1999)
  • Say You'll Be Mine (1999)
  • Ally (1999)
  • The Courage to Love (2000)
  • Beautiful Joe (2000)
  • Chasing Sleep (2000)
  • Night Visions (2001)
  • Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001)
  • The Agency (2001-02)
  • Whitewash: The Clarence Bradley Story (2002)
  • Second String (2002)
  • 1st to Die (2003)
  • Fast Food High (2003)
  • The Twilight Zone (episode: "Homecoming) (2003)
  • Blind Horizon (2003)
  • EMR (2004)
  • Karen Sisco (2004)
  • Pursued (2004)
  • Zeyda and the Hitman (2004)
  • How's My Driving (2004)
  • Childstar (2004)
  • Cooking Lessons (2004)
  • A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
  • Keep Your Distance (2005)
  • The Weather Man (2005)
  • Terminal City (2005)
  • Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
  • The Promotion (2008)
  • Kill Kill Faster Faster (2008)
  • bgFATLdy (2008)
  • The Cleaner (2008)
  • Passchendaele (2008)
  • Toronto Stories (2008)
  • Infected (2008)
  • 24: Redemption (2008)
  • Happenchance (2010)
  • Smallville (2010)
  • FlashForward (2010)
  • Unthinkable (2010)
  • Goblin (2010)
  • A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
  • Criminal Minds (2010)
  • Hunt to Kill (2010)
  • The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
  • Girl Walks into a Bar (2011)
  • The Maiden Danced to Death (2011)
  • True Justice (2011)
  • Neighbors (2011)
  • Trading Christmas (2011)
  • Three Days in Havana (2012)
  • Fury (2012)
  • Mad Ship (2012)
  • House at the End of the Street (2012)
  • Boss (2012)
  • Vegas (2012)
  • Louis Cyr (2013)
  • The Calling (2014)
  • Extraterrestrial (2014)
  • Falling Skies (2014)
  • Ascension (2014)
  • Leading Lady (2014)
  • Bones (2014)
  • 11.22.63 (2016)
  • She Has a Name (2017)

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