Biography
Elias Koteas (born March 11, 1961) is a Canadian actor, known for his roles as Alvin "Al" Olinsky on the series Chicago P.D., Tom True on Goliath, Lionel Shrike in Now You See Me (2013), Col. Marks on Combat Hospital, James Skinner on The Killing, Laeddis in Shutter Island (2010), Monsieur Gateau in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Jack Payne in the film Shooter (2007), Peter Brandt in Collateral Damage (2002), Capt. James Stars in The Thin Red Line (1998), Edgar Reese in Fallen (1998...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Silent Planet
2024
as Theo
An aging convict serving out a life sentence alone on a distant planet is forced to confront his past when a new prisoner shows up and pushes him to r...

Janet Planet
2024
as Avi
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother,...

The Baker
2023
as Vic
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look af...

My Days of Mercy
2018
as Simon
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Jake Squared
2014
as Jake Klein
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

Jake Squared
2014
Producer
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

The Last Days on Mars
2013
as Charles Brunel
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence...

Now You See Me
2013
as Lionel Shrike (uncredited)
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with...

Devil's Knot
2013
as Jerry Driver
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
2011
as Sergie Katsov
Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But ...

Dream House
2011
as Boyce
Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as...

Winnie Mandela
2011
as Colonel de Vries
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

Let Me In
2010
as The Policeman
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was a...

A Letter to Elia
2010
as Elia Kazan (Voice)
Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely c...

My Own Love Song
2010
as Dean
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

The Killer Inside Me
2010
as Joe Rothman
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

Shutter Island
2010
as Laeddis
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...

3 Backyards
2010
as John
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.

Die
2010
as Mark Murdock
Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.

The Fourth Kind
2009
as Abel Campos
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappeara...

Defendor
2009
as Chuck Dooney
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington...

I Come with the Rain
2009
as Hasford
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia th...

The Haunting in Connecticut
2009
as Reverend Popescu
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the h...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Monsieur Gateau
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Dark Streets
2008
as Lieutenant
Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town--if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded ...

Two Lovers
2008
as Ronald Blatt
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

The Girl in the Park
2007
as Raymond
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. Ho...

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
as Val Lewton (voice)
Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his moth...

Prisoner
2007
as Jailer
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.

Shooter
2007
as Jack Payne
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back in...

Zodiac
2007
as Jack Mulanax
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

Skinwalkers
2006
as Jonas
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005
as Arthur Ouimet
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
The Big Empty
2005
as The Specialist
The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and laymen alike. It was writt...
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
as Self (archive footage)
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of...

S1m0ne
2002
as Hank Alano
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the prod...

Ararat
2002
as Ali / Jevdet Bay
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Collateral Damage
2002
as Peter Brandt
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr...

Novocaine
2001
as Harlan Sangster
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.

Shot in the Heart
2001
as Gary Gilmore
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own...

Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2001
as Sully
At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, clash and ultimately bond over the course of one week...

Lost Souls
2000
as John Townsend
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Harrison's Flowers
2000
as Yeager Pollack
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, ...

The Thin Red Line
1998
as Capt. James Staros
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Living Out Loud
1998
as The Kisser
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...

Apt Pupil
1998
as Archie
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...
Divorce: A Contemporary Western
1998
A look at the dysfunctional relationships of three couples as seen from the male point of view.

Fallen
1998
as Edgar Reese
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...

Gattaca
1997
as Antonio Freeman
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member ...

Hit Me
1996
as Sonny Rose
A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.

Crash
1996
as Vaughan
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins ...

Sugartime
1995
as Butch Blasi
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...

The Prophecy
1995
as Thomas Daggett
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop hi...

Power of Attorney
1995
as Paul Dellacroce
Mafia don Joseph Scassi is a man willing to use all of his vast resources to defend himself against an indictment for murder and extortion.

Camilla
1994
as Vincent Lopez
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...

Exotica
1994
as Eric
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...

Cyborg 2
1993
as Colson 'Colt' Ricks
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are c...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
1993
as Casey Jones / Whit
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming...

The Habitation of Dragons
1992
as Wally Smith
Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for al...

Chain of Desire
1992
as Jesus
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

Contact
1992
as Mohannan
An American soldier and an Arab soldier confront each other during wartime in the desert, each hoping to kill the other. But in order to survive, they...

The Adjuster
1991
as Noah
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

Almost an Angel
1990
as Steve Garner
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hosp...

Look Who's Talking Too
1990
as Stuart
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings aris...

Desperate Hours
1990
as Wally Bosworth
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990
as Casey Jones
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics
1989
as Davey
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pu...

Blood Red
1989
as Silvio
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.

Malarek
1988
as Victor Malarek
Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Mo...

Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
as Jimmy
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senil...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Alex
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988
as Young Aristotle Onassis
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy...

She's Having a Baby
1988
as Elias Koteas (uncredited)
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

Gardens of Stone
1987
as Pete Deveber
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...

Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
as Skinhead
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. How...

One Magic Christmas
1985
as Eddie
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gid...

Private Sessions
1985
as Johnny O'Reilly
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently ther...

Atlantic City
1980
as Extra (uncredited)
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a...
The Block
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A former successful horror fiction writer overcomes writer's block after experiencing a mysterious event. However, his renewed creativity comes at a d...