Gil Bellows

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 The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the Fox television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), and CIA agent Matt Callan in the CBS television series The Agency (2001–2003). In 2016–2017, he was a regular cast member in the USA Network series Eyewitness.
Early life
Bellows was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Magee Secondary School with fellow future actress 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 motion-picture role as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Also in 1994, he played the lead role Watty Watt in Love and a .45 with Renée Zellweger, Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal, and 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 24: Redemption, a television film prequel to the seventh season of 24.
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".
In 2010, Bellows had a recurring role in FlashForward as Timothy, a window-washer who becomes a born-again Christian and evangelist after a near-death experience. 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 Tricia Helfer in the Syfy miniseries Ascension, a retro space opera / murder mystery about the 600-person crew of the USS Ascension, an Orion-class nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship, on its secret 100-year journey to Proxima Centauri, having been launched in 1963 by 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 USA Network's new, 10-episode, straight-to-series police drama, Eyewitness. He plays Gabe Caldwell, a veterinarian and the husband of Sheriff Helen Torrance (series lead Julianne Nicholson). The sheriff is trying to solve what appears to be a random triple-murder in a turkey farmer's home. But as the series begins to unfold, she is unaware that the farmer's teenage son and his male friend—the latter of whom also happens to be Gabe and Helen's foster son; at first, unbeknownst to either parent—had been secretly exploring new feelings for each other just prior to the carnage, witnessed the murders. The killer is still at large, is someone she wouldn't normally suspect, and is determined to permanently silence the witness he saw hiding. Meanwhile, off the clock and at home, Caldwell and Torrance seem to enjoy a genuinely happy marriage. The series, although set in mainly in the 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
The First Season (1988) as Ronne
Law & Order (1991, TV series) as Howard Metzler
Flying Blind (1992, TV series) as Gerard
Going to Extremes (1993, TV series) as Ben
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Tommy Williams
Love and a .45 (1994) as Watty Watts
Miami Rhapsody (1995) as Matt
Black Day Blue Night (1995) as Hitchhiker Dodge
Silver Strand (1995, TV movie) as Brian Del Piso
Radiant City (1996, TV movie) as Bert Kramer
The Substance of Fire (1996) as Val Chenard
Witch Way Love (1997) as Michael
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) as Will
White Lies (1997) as Punk Guy
The Assistant (1997) as Frank Alpine
Dinner at Fred's (1997) as Richard
Ally McBeal (1997–2002, TV series) as Billy Thomas
The Practice (1998, TV series) as Billy Thomas
Judas Kiss (1998) as Lizard Browning
Say You'll Be Mine (1999) as Mason
Ally (1999, TV series) as Billy Thomas
The Courage to Love (2000, TV movie) as Dr. Gerard Gaultier
Beautiful Joe (2000) as Elton
Chasing Sleep (2000) as Detective Derm
Night Visions (2001, TV series) as Keith Miller (segment "Renovation")
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001, TV movie) as Miles
The Agency (2001–2002, TV series) as Matt Callan
Whitewash: The Clarence Bradley Story (2002, TV movie) as Mike De Guerin
Second String (2002, TV movie) as Dan Heller
1st to Die (2003, TV movie) as Chris Raleigh
Fast Food High (2003) as Dale White
The Twilight Zone (2003, episode: "Homecoming") as Maj. Rob Malone
Blind Horizon (2003) as Dr. Theodore Conway
EMR (2004) as Paramedic
Karen Sisco (2004, TV series) as Special Agent Donny Pepper
Zeyda and the Hitman (2004) as Jeff Klein
Cooking Lessons (2004, TV movie) as Professor Mocha
How's My Driving (2004, short) as Jimmy
Childstar (2004) as Isaac
Pursued (2004) as Ben Keats
A Bear Named Winnie (2004, TV movie) as Colonel Barret
Keep Your Distance (2005) as David Dailey
The Weather Man (2005) as Don
Terminal City (2005, TV series) as Ari Sampson
Final Days of Planet Earth (2006, TV movie) as Lloyd Walker
The Promotion (2008) as Mitch
Kill Kill Faster Faster (2008) as Joe
bgFATLdy (2008) as Sam
The Cleaner (2008, TV series) as Mickey Efros
Passchendaele (2008) as Royster
Toronto Stories (2008) as Henry
Infected (2008, TV movie) as Ben Mosher
24: Redemption (2008, TV movie) as Frank Tramell
Happenchance (2010, short) as Stan
Smallville (2010, TV series) as Maxwell Lord
FlashForward (2010, TV series) as Timothy
Unthinkable (2010) as Agent Vincent
Goblin (2010, TV movie) as Neil Perkins
A Night for Dying Tigers (2010) as Jake
Criminal Minds (2010, TV series) as Jeff Joyce
Hunt to Kill (2010) as Banks
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011) as Phil
Girl Walks into a Bar (2011) as Emmit
The Maiden Danced to Death (2011) as Fred
Trading Christmas (2011, TV movie) as Ray Johnson
Neighbors (2011) as Vern
Fury (2012) as Bartender Bill
True Justice (2010–2012, TV series) as Nikoli Putin
House at the End of the Street (2012) as Weaver
Boss (2012, TV series) as Vacarro
Vegas (2012, TV series) as George Grady
Mad Ship (2013) as Archie Cameron
Louis Cyr (2013) as Richard Kyle Fox
Parkland (2013) as David Powers
3 Days in Havana (2013) as Jack Petty
Extraterrestrial (2014) as Sheriff Murphy
Leading Lady (2014) as Daniel Taylor
Falling Skies (2014, TV series) as Nick Phillips
The Calling (2014) as Detective Ray Green
Kill the Messenger (2014) as DEA Agent Miller
Bones (2014, TV series) as Mason Barnes
Ascension (2014, TV Mini-Series) as Harris Enzmann
Girl on the Edge (2015) as Jake Green
Patriot (2015–2018, TV series) as Lawrence Lacroix
Weepah Way for Now (2015) as John
Life on the Line (2015) as Pok' Chop
11.22.63 (2016, TV miniseries) as FBI Agent James B. Hosty
Dead Draw (2016) as Harrison
She Has a Name (2016) as Alex
Eyewitness (2016, TV series) as Gabe Caldwell
Blood Honey (2017) as Marvin Heath
The Detectives - 'Nine Shots' / The Case That Haunts Me / The Orion Project (2018) as Det. Peter Baker
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) as Chief Turner
The Handmaid's Tale (2019) as Doctor
Awake (2021) as Dr. Katz
Love in the Time of Corona (2020)
Women of the Movement (miniseries) (2022) as Gerald Chatham
Chucky (2023, TV series) as Warren Pryce
References
External links
1967 births
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Vancouver
American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Primetime Emmy Award winners