Gil Bellows

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Gil Bellows
Bellows in 2012
Born (1967-06-28) June 28, 1967 (age 56)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active1988–present
Spouse
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(m. 1994)​
Children2

Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in the 1994 movie

Eyewitness
.

Early life

Bellows was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Magee Secondary School with fellow future actor 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

CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency. 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

seventh season of 24.[1]

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".[2][3]

In 2010, Bellows had a recurring role in

born-again Christian and evangelist after a near-death experience.[4] 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 second-season episodes (2012) of Boss he appeared as a casino investor.

In 2014 Bellows starred with

President Kennedy
. Bellows played Harris Enzmann, the son of the founder of the Ascension project, who oversees its progress from a secret facility on Earth.

On October 16, 2016, Bellows debuted as a cast regular in

Hudson River Valley, was actually filmed in Parry Sound
, Ontario, Canada.

In 2019, Bellows guest-starred as the unnamed maternity doctor in season 3, episode 9, of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale.

Personal life

Gil Bellows is married to American actress Rya Kihlstedt and the couple have two children.

Filmography

Bellows at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

References

  1. ^ Nellie Andreeva (2008-05-23). "'24' prequel adds cast - Eric Lively, Tony Todd, Gil Bellows join the fray". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  2. ^ #8
  3. ^ "Smallville: Maxwell Lord is Cast". IGN. 2010-02-22. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
  4. ^ Hale, Mike (2010-03-19). "'FlashForward' Watch: Simon Says". The New York Times.

External links

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