Born in Montréal, Quebec, Elias Koteas attended Vanier College with the idea of pursuing a career in architecture or civil engineering. Attending acting classes prior to graduation prompted him to apply at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, of which he is a graduate. He began his career with stage work, debuting on the big screen in the 1985 movie One Magic Christmas. His breakout role came in 1989, in the tile role of Victor Malarek, a true story based on a Canadian investigative journalist. His performance in Malarek, initially a made-for-television movie, was so powerful that the movie was given a limited theatrical release.
Known For
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Cast Credits
Guilty Party (2021)
Guest starring as Charles "Tuna" Billingham
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Your Mama Loves You (Nov 11, 2021)
- Episode 1x05: Stop Being a Coward and Take the Meat (Nov 4, 2021)
- Episode 1x04: Let's Make This Man Hurt (Oct 28, 2021)
Chicago Justice (2017)
Guest starring as Detective Alvin Olinsky
- Episode 1x01: Fake (Mar 1, 2017) [Special Guest Star]
Goliath (2016)
Guest starring as Tom True
(8 episodes)
- Episode 4x08: It's Time (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x07: Lawyer Trickery Bullshit (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x06: Rundleworks (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x05: Spilt Milk (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x04: Forcibly Removed (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x03: Signed, William Hamilton McBride (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x02: The Pain Killer (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x01: Hadleyville (Sep 24, 2021) [Special Guest Star]
Chicago Med (2015)
Guest starring as Detective Alvin Olinsky
(3 episodes)
- Episode 3x10: Down by Law (Feb 27, 2018)
- Episode 3x04: Naughty or Nice (Dec 12, 2017)
- Episode 2x05: Extreme Measures (Oct 20, 2016)
Chicago P.D. (2014)
Starring as Detective Alvin Olinsky
(106 episodes)
- Episode 5x22: Homecoming (May 9, 2018)
- Episode 5x21: Allegiance (May 2, 2018)
- Episode 5x20: Saved (Apr 18, 2018)
- Episode 5x19: Payback (Apr 11, 2018)
- Episode 5x18: Ghosts (Mar 21, 2018)
- Episode 5x17: Breaking Point (Mar 14, 2018)
- Episode 5x16: Profiles (Mar 7, 2018)
- Episode 5x15: Sisterhood (Feb 28, 2018)
- Episode 5x14: Anthem (Feb 7, 2018)
- Episode 5x13: Chasing Monsters (Jan 31, 2018)
- Episode 5x12: Captive (Jan 17, 2018)
- Episode 5x11: Confidential (Jan 10, 2018)
- Episode 5x10: Rabbit Hole (Jan 3, 2018)
- Episode 5x09: Monster (Dec 6, 2017)
- Episode 5x08: Politics (Nov 29, 2017)
- Episode 5x07: Care Under Fire (Nov 15, 2017)
- Episode 5x06: Fallen (Nov 8, 2017)
- Episode 5x05: Home (Oct 25, 2017)
- Episode 5x04: Snitch (Oct 18, 2017)
- Episode 5x03: Promise (Oct 11, 2017)
- Episode 5x02: The Thing About Heroes (Oct 4, 2017)
- Episode 5x01: Reform (Sep 27, 2017)
- Episode 4x23: Fork in the Road (May 17, 2017)
- Episode 4x22: Army of One (May 10, 2017)
- Episode 4x21: Fagin (May 3, 2017)
- Episode 4x20: Grasping for Salvation (Apr 26, 2017)
- Episode 4x19: Last Minute Resistance (Apr 5, 2017)
- Episode 4x18: Little Bit of Light (Mar 29, 2017)
- Episode 4x17: Remember the Devil (Mar 22, 2017)
- Episode 4x16: Emotional Proximity (Mar 1, 2017)
- Episode 4x15: Favor, Affection, Malice or Ill-Will (Feb 22, 2017)
- Episode 4x14: Seven Indictments (Feb 15, 2017)
- Episode 4x13: I Remember Her Now (Feb 8, 2017)
- Episode 4x12: Sanctuary (Jan 18, 2017)
- Episode 4x11: You Wish (Jan 11, 2017)
- Episode 4x10: Don't Read the News (Jan 4, 2017)
- Episode 4x09: Don't Bury This Case (Jan 3, 2017)
- Episode 4x08: A Shot Heard Round the World (Nov 16, 2016)
- Episode 4x07: 300,000 Likes (Nov 16, 2016)
- Episode 4x06: Some Friend (Nov 9, 2016)
- Episode 4x05: A War Zone (Oct 26, 2016)
- Episode 4x04: Big Friends, Big Enemies (Oct 12, 2016)
- Episode 4x03: All Cylinders Firing (Oct 5, 2016)
- Episode 4x02: Made a Wrong Turn (Sep 28, 2016)
- Episode 4x01: The Silos (Sep 21, 2016)
- Episode 3x23: Start Digging (May 25, 2016)
- Episode 3x22: She's Got Us (May 18, 2016)
- Episode 3x21: Justice (May 11, 2016)
- Episode 3x20: In a Duffel Bag (May 4, 2016)
- Episode 3x19: If We Were Normal (Mar 30, 2016)
- Episode 3x18: Kasual with a K (Mar 23, 2016)
- Episode 3x17: Forty-Caliber Bread Crumb (Mar 2, 2016)
- Episode 3x16: The Cases That Need to Be Solved (Feb 24, 2016)
- Episode 3x15: A Night Owl (Feb 17, 2016)
- Episode 3x14: The Song of Gregory Williams Yates (Feb 10, 2016)
- Episode 3x13: Hit Me (Feb 3, 2016)
- Episode 3x12: Looking Out for Stateville (Jan 20, 2016)
- Episode 3x11: Knocked the Family Right Out (Jan 13, 2016)
- Episode 3x10: Now I'm God (Jan 6, 2016)
- Episode 3x09: Never Forget I Love You (Nov 18, 2015)
- Episode 3x08: Forget My Name (Nov 11, 2015)
- Episode 3x07: A Dead Kid, a Notebook and a Lot of Maybes (Nov 4, 2015)
- Episode 3x06: You Never Know Who's Who (Oct 28, 2015)
- Episode 3x05: Climbing Into Bed (Oct 28, 2015)
- Episode 3x04: Debts of the Past (Oct 21, 2015)
- Episode 3x03: Actual Physical Violence (Oct 14, 2015)
- Episode 3x02: Natural Born Storyteller (Oct 7, 2015)
- Episode 3x01: Life is Fluid (Sep 30, 2015)
- Episode 2x23: Born Into Bad News (May 20, 2015)
- Episode 2x22: Push the Pain Away (May 13, 2015)
- Episode 2x21: There's My Girl (May 6, 2015)
- Episode 2x20: The Number of Rats (Apr 29, 2015)
- Episode 2x19: The Three G's (Apr 8, 2015)
- Episode 2x18: Get Back to Even (Apr 1, 2015)
- Episode 2x17: Say Her Real Name (Mar 25, 2015)
- Episode 2x16: What Puts You on That Ledge (Feb 25, 2015)
- Episode 2x15: What Do You Do (Feb 18, 2015)
- Episode 2x14: Erin's Mom (Feb 11, 2015)
- Episode 2x13: A Little Devil Complex (Feb 4, 2015)
- Episode 2x12: Disco Bob (Jan 21, 2015)
- Episode 2x11: We Don't Work Together Anymore (Jan 14, 2015)
- Episode 2x10: Shouldn't Have Been Alone (Jan 7, 2015)
- Episode 2x09: Called in Dead (Dec 10, 2014)
- Episode 2x08: Assignment of the Year (Nov 19, 2014)
- Episode 2x07: They'll Have to Go Through Me (Nov 12, 2014)
- Episode 2x06: Prison Ball (Nov 5, 2014)
- Episode 2x05: An Honest Woman (Oct 22, 2014)
- Episode 2x04: Chicken, Dynamite, Chainsaw (Oct 15, 2014)
- Episode 2x03: The Weigh Station (Oct 8, 2014)
- Episode 2x02: Get My Cigarettes (Oct 1, 2014)
- Episode 2x01: Call It Macaroni (Sep 24, 2014)
- Episode 1x15: A Beautiful Friendship (May 21, 2014)
- Episode 1x14: The Docks (May 14, 2014)
- Episode 1x13: My Way (May 7, 2014)
- Episode 1x12: 8:30 PM (Apr 30, 2014)
- Episode 1x11: Turn the Light Off (Apr 9, 2014)
- Episode 1x10: At Least It's Justice (Apr 2, 2014)
- Episode 1x09: A Material Witness (Mar 19, 2014)
- Episode 1x08: Different Mistakes (Mar 12, 2014)
- Episode 1x07: The Price We Pay (Mar 5, 2014)
- Episode 1x06: Conventions (Feb 26, 2014)
- Episode 1x05: Thirty Balloons (Feb 5, 2014)
- Episode 1x04: Now is Always Temporary (Jan 29, 2014)
- Episode 1x03: Chin Check (Jan 22, 2014)
- Episode 1x02: Wrong Side of the Bars (Jan 15, 2014)
- Episode 1x01: Stepping Stone (Jan 8, 2014)
Chicago Fire (2012)
Guest starring as Detective Alvin Olinsky
(4 episodes)
- Episode 5x18: Take a Knee (Apr 4, 2017)
- Episode 5x15: Deathtrap (Mar 1, 2017) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 4x18: On the Warpath (Apr 5, 2016)
- Episode 2x09: You Will Hurt Him (Dec 3, 2013)
The Killing (2011)
Starring as James Skinner
(11 episodes)
- Episode 3x12: The Road to Hamelin (Aug 4, 2013)
- Episode 3x11: From Up Here (Aug 4, 2013)
- Episode 3x09: Reckoning (Jul 21, 2013)
- Episode 3x08: Try (Jul 14, 2013)
- Episode 3x07: Hope Kills (Jul 7, 2013)
- Episode 3x06: Eminent Domain (Jun 30, 2013)
- Episode 3x05: Scared and Running (Jun 23, 2013)
- Episode 3x04: Head Shots (Jun 16, 2013)
- Episode 3x03: Seventeen (Jun 9, 2013)
- Episode 3x02: That You Fear the Most (Jun 2, 2013)
- Episode 3x01: The Jungle (Jun 2, 2013)