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Gil Bellows

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  • Producer
  • Director
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Gil Bellows
When the famous outlaw Henry Baker is released from prison after 25 years, old friends and enemies are waiting for him. The son he left behind, entrusted to watch over his ill-gotten riches. A bearded vagrant with a pistol and a decades-old bullet scar in his stomach. An alcohol soaked deputy with half an ear on one side. And a burned out street hustler with a sick mother and a festering vendetta. They trail Henry to a dilapidated hotel where he plans to reunite with his son and the secret bag of gold he left behind.
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Gil Bellows was born on 28 June 1967 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Patriot (2015), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Love and a .45 (1994). He has been married to Rya Kihlstedt since 3 October 1994. They have two children.
BornJune 28, 1967
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BornJune 28, 1967
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  • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 4 wins & 7 nominations total

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Gil Bellows in Love and a .45 (1994)
Gil Bellows and Julianne Nicholson in Eyewitness (2016)
Calista Flockhart and Gil Bellows in Ally McBeal (1997)
Gil Bellows in Love and a .45 (1994)
Gil Bellows and Michael Dorman in Patriot (2015)
Téa Leoni, Gil Bellows, and Corey Parker in Flying Blind (1992)
Kurtwood Smith, Gil Bellows, and Julian Richings in Patriot (2015)
John Travolta and Gil Bellows in Life on the Line (2015)
Gil Bellows in Eyewitness (2016)
John Travolta, Gil Bellows, and Matt Bellefleur in Life on the Line (2015)
Still of Giovanni Mocibob and Gil Bellows in She Has A Name.
Gil Bellows, Brümilda van Rensburg, Katie McGrath, and Bok van Blerk in Leading Lady (2014)

Known for

Patriot (2015)
Patriot
8.3
TV Series
  • Lawrence Lacroix
Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption
9.3
  • Tommy
  • 1994
Renée Zellweger and Gil Bellows in Love and a .45 (1994)
Love and a .45
6.0
  • Watty Watts
  • 1994
Carla Gugino in Jett (2019)
Jett
7.4
TV Series
  • Evans

Credits

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Actor

  • Ally
    • Billy Thomas
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 1999–2000
  • Women of the Movement (2022)
    Women of the Movement
    • Gerald Chatham
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Gina Rodriguez and Ariana Greenblatt in Awake (2021)
    Awake
    • Dr. Katz
    • 2021
  • V.C. Andrews' Landry Family (2021)
    V.C. Andrews' Landry Family
    • Pierre Dumas
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes, Emily Browning, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Omid Abtahi, and Bruce Langley in American Gods (2017)
    American Gods
    • Bill Sanders
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Gil Bellows and Tony Curran in Two Deaths of Henry Baker (2020)
    Two Deaths of Henry Baker
    • Henry Baker
    • Sam Bird
    • 2020
  • Love in the Time of Corona (2020)
    Love in the Time of Corona
    • Paul
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • The Twilight Zone (2019)
    The Twilight Zone
    • Dick Warren
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller in Cherish the Day (2020)
    Cherish the Day
    • Therapist
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Mira Sorvino, Jay Mohr, Melora Walters, Gil Bellows, Steven Swadling, and Sergio Rizzuto in Drowning (2019)
    Drowning
    • Frank
    • 2019
  • Kurtwood Smith, Gil Bellows, Angus Macfadyen, Larenz Tate, Patric Caird, Sarah Carter, Lance Reddick, Julian Richings, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Nick Wernham, Richard Wernham, Sanzhar Sultan, Julian De Zotti, and Carolina Bartczak in Business Ethics (2019)
    Business Ethics
    • Edwin Murk
    • 2019
  • Carla Gugino in Jett (2019)
    Jett
    • Evans
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    • Chief Turner
    • 2019
  • Suits (2011)
    Suits
    • Dan Foley
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
    The Handmaid's Tale
    • Doctor
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Bruce Dern, Barry Papick, Gil Bellows, Erik Aude, David Castro, Laurene Landon, Joycelyne Lew, Kyle Lowder, J. Anthony Pena, Tom Proctor, Ken Sagoes, Paul Sloan, John Thaddeus, Thomas J. Churchill, Kristen Renton, Rachel Sterling, David Schifter, Chuck Liddell, Mike Marino, Vida Ghaffari, Krista Grotte Saxon, Gino Cafarelli, Carmine Famiglietti, Chris Woods, Melissa Tracy, Rafiq Batcha, Frank Drank, Raven Lexy, Cazzey Louis Cereghino, Erick Schroder, Massimo Dobrovic, David M. Parks, Karlee Leilani Perez, Tom Gore, Tiger Rudge, Sarah Cole, Eva Ceja, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Kenny DeMello, Mo Kelly, Rusty Coones, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Cleo Fraser, Kaegan Baron, Cece Kelly, Larry L Andrews, Kole Benfield, Wyatt Walter, and Libbie Mia Goldfine in Nation's Fire (2019)
    Nation's Fire
    • Josip Aleksander
    • 2019

Producer

  • Kurtwood Smith, Gil Bellows, Angus Macfadyen, Larenz Tate, Patric Caird, Sarah Carter, Lance Reddick, Julian Richings, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Nick Wernham, Richard Wernham, Sanzhar Sultan, Julian De Zotti, and Carolina Bartczak in Business Ethics (2019)
    Business Ethics
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Patriot (2015)
    Patriot
    • co-executive producer
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2018
  • Business Ethics (2015)
    Business Ethics
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • 3 Days in Havana (2013)
    3 Days in Havana
    • producer
    • 2013
  • Claire Danes in Temple Grandin (2010)
    Temple Grandin
    • executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2010
  • Gil Bellows in Kill Kill Faster Faster (2008)
    Kill Kill Faster Faster
    • producer
    • 2008
  • Elizabeth Reaser in Sweet Land (2005)
    Sweet Land
    • co-producer
    • 2005
  • Night of Too Many Stars (2003)
    Night of Too Many Stars
    • segment producer
    • TV Special
    • 2003

Director

  • 3 Days in Havana (2013)
    3 Days in Havana
    • Director
    • 2013
  • Night of Too Many Stars (2003)
    Night of Too Many Stars
    • segment director
    • TV Special
    • 2003
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Life on the Line
The Samaritan
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The Samaritan
The Samaritan
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The Samaritan
The Samaritan
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Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Gill Bellows
  • Height
    • 5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
  • Born
    • June 28, 1967
    • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Spouse
    • Rya KihlstedtOctober 3, 1994 - present (filed for divorce, 2 children)
  • Children
      Ava Emanuelle
  • Other works
    Reader on Random House Audio Book of "Exit to Eden" by Anne Rice.
  • Publicity listings
    • 3 Articles
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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    Known as the hunky on- and off- lawyer and paramour to Ally McBeal in the late 1990s, he is probably best remembered in films for his smallish, breakthrough role as an ill-fated inmate in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Bellows got the part after Brad Pitt passed on it to do the lead in Legends of the Fall (1994).
  • Quotes
    (2010) The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

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