Rhys Coiro

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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.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Making Revolution Italian Activist
2007 Look Ace
Mama's Boy Trip
2009 Script error: No such module "sort". 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
2025 Trust [11]
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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 Script error: No such module "sort". Dr. Zeke Barnes Recurring character
2012 Person of Interest Jordan Hester Guest star
2013 Dexter Andrew Briggs[12] 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

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