Gil Bellows Biography
Born: June 28, 1967
Gil Bellows worked steadily in film throughout the mid-'90s before he achieved TV fame on the whimsical Fox comedy Ally McBeal. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bellows left Canada to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Southern California. He then headed East, appearing in New York theater as well as on TV's Law & Order. Though he made his film debut in Frank_Darabont's acclaimed prison drama The_Shawshank_Redemption (1994) and co-starred alongside Sarah_Jessica_Parker in Miami_Rhapsody (1995), Bellows followed more in the direction of his first starring film, Love and a .45 (1994), appearing primarily in independent features. After a supporting role in The Substance of Fire (1996), Bellows starred in the British-Canadian adaptation of Bernard_Malamud's The_Assistant (1997) and the Canadian romantic comedy Dinner at Fred's (opposite indie queen Parker_Posey), as well as the French supernatural romance Un Amour de Sorcière (1997). It was TV producer/writer David_E._Kelley's innovative Ally McBeal, though, that made Bellows a well-known presence after the series debuted in 1997. As Ally/Calista_Flockhart's ex-love-turned-law colleague, Bellows' Billy was a bastion of relative normalcy (at least until the third season) among the eccentric staff populating the series' fictional Boston law firm and stoking Ally's neuroses. Though Billy was supposed to last only one season, Bellows stayed for three, leaving in 2000. Bellows is married to actress Rya_Kihlstedt and has one daughter. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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