# Rhys Coiro

John Rhys Coiro (born March 12, 1979) 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. He also spent time studying at The Moscow Art Theater in Russia.

## 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. 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.
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. In 2010 Coiro starred in Slamdance 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 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. 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. 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 | |
| 2007 | Mama's Boy | Trip | |
| 2009 | The Unborn | Mr. Shields | |
| 2009 | Kidnapping Caitlynn | Daniel | |
| 2009 | Man Without a Head | Dino | |
| 2010 | Snow and Ashes | Blaise Dumas | |
| 2010 | High School | Vato | |
| 2010 | Order of Chaos | John | |
| 2010 | MacGruber | Yerik Novikov | |
| 2010 | 30 Days of Night: Dark Days | Paul | |
| 2011 | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | Marcus | |
| 2011 | Life Happens | Marc | |
| 2011 | Straw Dogs | Norman | |
| 2013 | Chlorine | Pat | |
| 2013 | As Cool as I Am | Ron | |
| 2014 | Electric Slide | Glen the Mormon | |
| 2014 | This Last Lonely Place | Sam Taylor | |
| 2014 | 4 Minute Mile | Eli | |
| 2015 | Entourage | Billy Walsh | |
| 2015 | Hollywood Adventures | Gary Buesheimer | |
| 2015 | Forever | Gordon | |
| 2016 | Chronically Metropolitan | The Georgian | |
| 2017 | Valley of Bones | Nate | |
| 2017 | Dead Ant | Pager | |
| 2018 | Gotti | Rudy Pipes | |
| 2019 | Finding Steve McQueen | Ray Darrow | |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Spencer | |
| 2022 | Agent Game | Reese | |
| 2022 | One Way | Coco | |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2005 | CSI: Miami | Diablo | Guest star |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2007 | Criminal Minds | Ethan | Guest star |
| 2007 | Raines | Eddie | Guest star |
| 2007 | 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 |
| 2010 | Dark Blue | Victor | Guest star |
| 2010 | 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 | Guest star |
| 2013 | 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 |
| 2014 | Lilyhammer | Tommy Mangano | Recurring character |
| 2015 | The Lizzie Borden Chronicles | Chester Phipps | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Texas Rising | Vern Elwood | 5 episodes |
| 2015 | Graceland | Ari Adamian | Recurring character |
| 2017 | Ray Donovan | Rob Heard | Recurring character |
| 2017 | The Mick | Ip deLuca | Guest star |
| 2018 | Unsolved | Jim Black | Recurring character |
| 2018 | Sideswiped | Charlie | Recurring character |
| 2018 | S.W.A.T. | Remy | Guest star |
| 2018 | 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 |
| 2024 | The Penguin | Sebastian Hady | Guest star |