Kim Coates (born February 21, 1958 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Tig Trager in Sons of Anarchy, but familiar from over a hundred movie and TV appearances since the late '80s, most famously as the crazy Drifter in Waterworld, the creepy hitman Paul Gronke in The Client, and recurring antagonist Ron Saris in CSI: Miami.
He specialises in playing villains, and he's so notorious for being killed on screen that he has his own death reel
, but he plays convincingly against type in movies like Black Hawk Down, King Of Sorrow, and the elusive Frame Up Blues. Most recently, he has played the antihero Declan Gardiner in the Canadian mafia series Bad Blood.
Kim is a huge hockey fan and very active on Twitter.
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Kim's movies are themselves so tropey that his fans have created his own list of tropes.
- Acting for Two: Plays identical twin brothers in Ferocious.
- Celebrity Resemblance: He's been compared to Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Savini and Robin Williams.
- Chronically Killed Actor: With a death count of somewhere in the high 50s at last count. Shot, stabbed, blown up, set on fire, eaten...
- Fake Nationality: Usually American, but has passed for Russian, Armenian, Irish, Mexican, German and Italian.
- Star-Making Role: Playing Tig in Sons of Anarchy made him a household name after years of being That Guy.
- Typecasting: He's cast as a scumbag, perv, or psycho (sometimes all three) in a disproportionate number of his movies and TV shows.
- You Look Familiar: Plays two different characters in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Outer Limits (1995), and Counterstrike. He's also one of only a handful of actors who've done the CSI treble (CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY) - as different characters each time.
Kim's roles include:
- Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
- Bad Boys (1995)
- Battlefield Earth
- Black Hawk Down
- Ferocious
- Goon (2011)
- Hostage
- Lethal Tender
- A Little Help
- Open Range
- Pearl Harbor
- Resident Evil: Afterlife
- Rufus
- See For Me
- Silent Hill
- The Client
- The Island (2005)
- The Last Boy Scout
- Pirate's Passage
- Waterworld
Live-Action TV
- Bad Blood
- Cold Case
- Crossing Lines
- CSI
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- The Dresden Files
- Earth: Final Conflict
- Entourage
- Ghost Wars
- Hercules
- Human Target
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
- Miami Vice
- Nightman
- Prison Break
- Smallville
- Sons of Anarchy
- Total Recall 2070
- The Outer Limits (1995)
- White House Plumbers
