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.

He is known to be good friends with actor William Fichtner as well as Kevin Costner. Kim also became a United States Citizen in 2010. He admits that he took Drama by chance in university and after two years he knew that he wanted to be an actor.

Kim Coates (born February 21 1958) is a Canadian-American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Theatre.