Stone-jawed and puppy-eyed, Elias Koteas has the desirable ability to call on both his distinctive looks and predisposition to show a category of complex, often troubled characters. Koteas is one of Canada's most prominent and proficiently-respected actors, and during the recent '90s, he began to amass foreign critical attention for his moil in a figure of favourable profile films, including David Cronenberg's Bang (1996) and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998). Koteas, who i... s of Greek ancestry, was born in Montreal on Trek 11, 1961.

His father was a mechanic to the Canadian Governmental Railways and his mother worked as a hatmaker; Koteas himself planned to be an architect until his teenage introduction to acting changed his plans. He was particularly inspired beside Away Nolte's engagement in the TV miniseries Rich Handcuffs, Poor Bracelets; little did Koteas be acquainted with that two decades later, he would be starring opposite Nolte in The Twiggy Red Speech. After beginning his education at Montreal's Vanier College, Koteas sinistral to study at New York's prestigious American Academy of Effective Arts in 1981. Following his graduation, he went to New York's Actors Studio, where he studied beneath Ellen Burstyn and Peter Masterson.

The actor made his inauguration in the Mary Steenburgen dramatic art One Glamour Christmas in 1985 and went on to do supporting work in a multifariousness of films that included Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Some Sort of Wonderful (1987), Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and She's Having a Baby (1988). In 1989, he earned a Genie Prize nomination (Canada's synonymous of the Oscar) for his portrayal of the title sort of Malarek: A Street Kid Who Made It; two years later, he earned additional acclaim in the interest of his gig as a voyeuristic insurance adjustor in Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster. It was for his portrayal of an embittered DJ in another of Egoyan's films, Exotica (1994), that Koteas garnered his second Genie nomination; following this critical big name, he began to appear in an increasing number of loaded profile productions. Koteas was afterward featured to great effect as the creepy Vaughan in David Cronenberg's controversial Crash (1996), and he invested his brief but essential lines as Holly Orion's mystery male in the acclaimed Living unlit Loud (1998) with memorable charisma. In The Sparse Red Outline, he managed to withdraw a symbolize out from his accomplished co-stars -- who included Nolte, Sean Penn, John Cusack, and Ben Chaplin -- as Captain Storos, an alienated, impractical soldier who refuses his nonpareil's orders to send his men on a suicidal attack propose.