EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has signed Kim Coates, the actor and producer best known for a major role on FX’s Emmy-nominated crime drama Sons of Anarchy, for representation.
In Kurt Sutter’s series focused on the lives of outlaw motorcycle club members, which ran for seven seasons between 2008 and 2014, Coates plays one of the lead characters, Tig Trager, who serves as the sergeant-at-arms and is often involved in the club’s most challenging and controversial activities.
Most recently recurring on Max’s White House Plumbers, Coates has also been seen on series including Netflix’s Godless and Bad Blood, CBS’s CSI: Miami, and Fox’s Prison Break, to name a few.
Over the course of his decades-long career, he’s also been seen in more than 40 films, most recently appearing in Double Down South, a thriller written and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Schulman. In addition to Academy Award winners like Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor, other notable credits include The Last Boy Scout, Bad Boys, hockey comedies Goon and Goon: Last of the Enforcers, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Netflix’s action comedy True Memoirs of an International Assassin, led by Kevin James.
Coates has also ventured into producing, notably co-producing and starring in action thriller A Dark Truth opposite Forrest Whitaker and Andy Garcia, indie drama Cold Brook with William Fichtner, and the horror thriller Neon Lights. He continues to be represented by Mainstay Entertainment and Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates.
