Line #4 Creator/KimCoates


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4	->''"I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose... this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal."''
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6	Kim Coates (born February 21, 1958 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Tig Trager in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', but familiar from over a hundred movie and TV appearances since the late '80s, most famously as the crazy Drifter in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', the creepy hitman Paul Gronke in ''Film/TheClient'', and recurring antagonist Ron Saris in ''Series/CSIMiami''.
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8	He specialises in playing villains, and he's so notorious for being killed on screen that [[http://www.kimcoatesdeathreel.com/ he has his own death reel]], but he plays convincingly against type in movies like ''Film/BlackHawkDown'', ''Film/KingOfSorrow'', and the elusive ''Film/FrameUpBlues''. Most recently, he has played the antihero Declan Gardiner in the Canadian mafia series ''Series/BadBlood''.
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10	Kim is a [[Film/Goon2011 huge hockey fan]] and very active on [[https://twitter.com/KimFCoates Twitter]].
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12	!!Provides examples of:
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14	Kim's movies are themselves so tropey that his fans have created [[http://kcmoviecollective.tumblr.com/tropes/ his own list of tropes]].
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16	* ActingForTwo: Plays identical twin brothers in ''Film/{{Ferocious}}''.
17	* CelebrityResemblance: He's been compared to Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/TomSavini and Creator/RobinWilliams.
18	* ChronicallyKilledActor: With a death count of somewhere in the high 50s at last count. Shot, stabbed, blown up, set on fire, eaten...
19	* FakeNationality: Usually American, but has passed for Russian, Armenian, Irish, Mexican, German and Italian.
20	* StarMakingRole: Playing Tig in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' made him a household name after years of being That Guy.
21	* TypeCasting: He's cast as a scumbag, perv, or psycho (sometimes all three) in a disproportionate number of his movies and TV shows.
22	* YouLookFamiliar: Plays two different characters in ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'', ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', and ''Series/{{Counterstrike}}''. He's also one of only a handful of actors who've done the ''[[Series/{{CSI}} CSI]]'' treble (''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/CSIMiami'' and ''Series/{{CSINY}}'') - as different characters each time.
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25	Kim's roles include:
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27	[[AC:{{Film}}]]
28	* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct132005''
29	* ''Film/BadBoys1995''
30	* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''
31	* ''Film/BlackHawkDown''
32	* ''Film/{{Ferocious}}''
33	* ''Film/Goon2011''
34	* ''Film/{{Hostage}}''
35	* ''Film/LethalTender''
36	* ''Film/ALittleHelp''
37	* ''Film/OpenRange''
38	* ''Film/PearlHarbor''
39	* ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife''
40	* ''Film/{{Rufus}}''
41	* ''Film/SeeForMe''
42	* ''Film/SilentHill''
43	* ''Film/TheClient''
44	* ''Film/TheIsland2005''
45	* ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''
46	* ''WesternAnimation/PiratesPassage''
47	* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''
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50	[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
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52	* ''Series/BadBlood''
53	* ''Series/ColdCase''
54	* ''Series/CrossingLines''
55	* ''Series/{{CSI}}''
56	* ''Series/CSIMiami''
57	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}''
58	* ''Series/TheDresdenFiles''
59	* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict''
60	* ''Series/{{Entourage}}''
61	* ''Series/GhostWars''
62	* ''Series/{{Hercules}}''
63	* ''Series/HumanTarget''
64	* ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues''
65	* ''Series/MiamiVice''
66	* ''Series/{{Nightman}}''
67	* ''Series/PrisonBreak''
68	* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''
69	* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''
70	* ''Series/TotalRecall2070''
71	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995''
72	* ''Series/WhiteHousePlumbers''
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74	[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
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76	* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''
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