Rhys Coiro

Rhys John Coiro, born March 12, 1979, is an American actor who began his career on stage before becoming widely recognized for his work in television and film. He was born in Calabria and spent his childhood in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Upstate New York before his family settled in Princeton, New Jersey when he was nine years old. Coiro trained formally at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a BFA in theater, and supplemented his studies with time at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.

His professional acting career began at age 19, when he was cast 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 Carnegie Mellon, Coiro made his Broadway debut in 2002, playing Eddie the Bellhop in the Lincoln Center revival of George S. Kaufman's Dinner at Eight, directed by Gerald Gutierrez.

Following his Broadway work, Coiro relocated to Los Angeles, where he portrayed Billy Walsh across six seasons of the HBO series Entourage. In 2009, he returned to the stage in Howard Korder's Boys' Life at Second Stage in New York, appearing opposite Jason Biggs. The following year he starred in the Slamdance winner Snow and Ashes, and in 2011 appeared alongside Alexander Skarsgård in Screen Gems' remake of Straw Dogs.

Coiro continued building a varied television résumé throughout the mid-2010s. In 2014, he played an antagonist to Stevie Van Zandt's character on the final season of the Norwegian series Lillyhammer on Netflix, and portrayed one of the original Texas Rangers in The History Channel miniseries Texas Rising, a production that also featured Ray Liotta, Bill Paxton, and Brendan Fraser. In 2015, he appeared as Armenian gangster Ari Adamian on the final season of USA's Graceland. In 2017 and 2018, Coiro held a series regular role on Unsolved and appeared in recurring arcs on Ray Donovan, The Walking Dead, and S.W.A.T.