Rhys Coiro

Rhys Coiro
Born	John Rhys Coiro (1979-03-12) March 12, 1979 (age 45) Santo Stefano in Aspromonte, Italy
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–present
Spouse	Kat Coiro
Children	3

John Rhys Coiro (born March 12, 1979) ^[1] is an American actor. He began acting on Broadway but is best known for on-screen roles such as Billy Walsh on the television series Entourage .

Early life

Coiro studied theater at Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated with a BFA. ^[2] He also spent time studying at The Moscow Art Theater in Russia. ^[3]

Career

At age 19, Coiro got his first professional gig as an understudy to three roles in the American premiere of Conor McPherson's off-Broadway play This Lime Tree Bower directed by Harris Yulin at Primary Stages. ^[4] Within a month of graduating from CMU, Coiro landed the role of Eddie the Bellhop in the Lincoln Center revival of George S. Kaufman's Dinner at Eight , directed by Gerald Guitierrez. ^[5]

Coiro moved to Los Angeles and portrayed the iconic role of Billy Walsh for 6 seasons of Entourage.

In 2009 Coiro returned to the stage, starring in a production of Howard Korder's Boys' Life at Second Stage in New York opposite Jason Biggs. ^[6] In 2010 Coiro starred in Slamdance ^[7] winner Snow and Ashes and in 2011 appeared alongside Alexander Skarsard in Screen Gems' remake of Straw Dogs . In 2014, Coiro was antagonist to Stevie Van Zandt's character on the final season of Netflix's first original series, the Norwegian mega-hit Lillyhammer ^[8] and he played one of the original Texas Rangers in The History Channel's mini-series Texas Rising , alongside Ray Liotta, Bill Paxton and Brendan Fraser. ^[9] During this show he honed his riding and loop roping skills. In 2015 Coiro played Armenian gangster Ari Adamian on the final season of USA's Graceland . ^[10] In 2017 and 2018 Coiro appeared as a series regular in Unsolved and in arcs on Ray Donovan , The Walking Dead , and S.W.A.T.

Personal life

Coiro is fluent in Italian and Spanish.

Coiro is married to director Kat Coiro and they live in Los Angeles with their three children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Making Revolution	Italian Activist
2007	Look	Ace
	Mama's Boy	Trip
2009	The Unborn	Mr. Shields
	Kidnapping Caitlynn	Daniel
	Man Without a Head	Dino
2010	Snow and Ashes	Blaise Dumas
	High School	Vato
	Order of Chaos	John
	MacGruber	Yerik Novikov
	30 Days of Night: Dark Days	Paul
2011	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy	Marcus
	Life Happens	Marc
	Straw Dogs	Norman
2013	Chlorine	Pat
	As Cool as I Am	Ron
2014	Electric Slide	Glen the Mormon
	This Last Lonely Place	Sam Taylor
	4 Minute Mile	Eli
2015	Entourage	Billy Walsh
	Hollywood Adventures	Gary Buesheimer
	Forever	Gordon
2016	Chronically Metropolitan	The Georgian
2017	Valley of Bones	Nate
	Dead Ant	Pager
2018	Gotti	Rudy Pipes
2019	Finding Steve McQueen	Ray Darrow
	Hustlers	Spencer
2022	Agent Game	Reese
	One Way	Coco
	Who Invited Charlie?	Ray
2024	Running on Empty	Simon
TBA	Lear Rex	Oswald	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	One on One	Zorbo Vishanisavik	Guest star
2003, 2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Kelly James / Reverend's Lawyer	2 episodes
2004–2011	Entourage	Billy Walsh	Recurring character
2005	Six Feet Under	Wolf	Guest star
	CSI: Miami	Diablo	Guest star
	CSI: NY	Razor	Guest star
2006	Ugly Betty	Vincent Bianchi	2 episodes: "Queens for a Day", "Fey's Sleigh Ride"
2007	Numb3rs	Ricky Jones	Guest star
	Criminal Minds	Ethan	Guest star
	Raines	Eddie	Guest star
	Tell Me You Love Me	Jaime's Rebound	2 episodes
2009	24	FBI Agent Sean Hillinger	Regular character
2010	Burn Notice	Vince Cutler	Guest star
	Dark Blue	Victor	Guest star
	Hawaii Five-0	Bradford Matinsky	Guest star
2011–2012	A Gifted Man	Dr. Zeke Barnes	Recurring character
2012	Person of Interest	Jordan Hester	Guest star
2013	Dexter	Andrew Briggs [11]	Guest star
	Longmire	Bill Norquist	Guest star
2013–2014	Hostages	Kramer Delaney	Main cast
2013, 2021	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Santiago Morales / Gabe Navarro	2 episodes
2014	Franklin & Bash	The Bone	Guest star
	Lilyhammer	Tommy Mangano	Recurring character
2015	The Lizzie Borden Chronicles	Chester Phipps	3 episodes
	Texas Rising	Vern Elwood	5 episodes
	Graceland	Ari Adamian	Recurring character
2017	Ray Donovan	Rob Heard	Recurring character
	The Mick	Ip deLuca	Guest star
2018	Unsolved	Jim Black	Recurring character
	Sideswiped	Charlie	Recurring character
	S.W.A.T.	Remy	Guest star
	The Walking Dead	Jed	Recurring character
2019	I Think You Should Leave	Billy	Episode: "The Bones Are Their Money"
2021	Paradise City	Adam	8 episodes; TV spinoff of American Satan
2022	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law	Donny Blaze	Guest star
2024	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Richard Grace	2 episodes
	The Penguin	Sebastian Hady	Guest star

References

1. Rose, Mike (12 March 2019). "Today's top celebrity birthdays list for March 12, 2019". cleveland. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
2. (CMU), Carnegie Mellon University. "People's Choice - Carnegie Mellon University | CMU". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
3. "Moscow Art Theater School | A.R.T. - American Repertory Theater". americanrepertorytheater.org. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
4. "Theater Review A staging of 'Lime Tree Bower' that speaks for itself — Irish Echo". irishecho.com. 16 February 2011. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
5. Sommer, CurtainUp, Elyse. "Dinner at Eight, a CurtainUp review". www.curtainup.com. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
6. "Second Stage's Boys' Life, with Biggs, Coiro and Scanavino, Opens Off-Broadway Oct. 20 | Playbill". Playbill. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
7. "'Snow and Ashes,' 'American Jihadist': Slamdance Winners". Alt Film Guide. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
8. ""Entourage"-stjerne klar for "Lilyhammer"". VG. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
9. Team, The Deadline (2014-04-18). "Rhys Coiro & Joe Egender Join History's 'Texas Rising'". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
10. "Ari Adamian (Character)". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
11. West, Kelly (June 6, 2013). "Dexter Photos Offer New Clues For Season 8". Cinema Blend. Retrieved June 21, 2013.

External links

• Rhys Coiro at IMDb