Kelly AuCoin (born February 14, 1967) is an American actor who has appeared in film, television, and theater. He is best known as "Dollar" Bill Stern on Billions (Showtime) and Pastor Tim on The Americans (FX). He has had recurring roles on several other American television series, including The Girl from Plainville (Hulu), WeCrashed (Apple TV+), The Endgame (NBC), House of Cards (Netflix), and as Hercules Mulligan on the final season of Turn: Washington's Spies (AMC). He frequently appears on stage in New York and venues around the country, such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and La Jolla Playhouse. He has had supporting roles in many films, including Steven Spielberg's The Post, The Good House, False Positive, The Kingdom, Julie & Julia, and All That I Am, which won the SXSW Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting.[1][2][3][4]
Kelly AuCoin | |
|---|---|
 AuCoin in 2016 | |
| Born | February 14, 1967 Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Spouse |
Carolyn Hall (m. 1999) |
Early life
editAuCoin was born in the Portland suburb of Hillsboro, Oregon, the son of Les and Susan AuCoin, and grew up in Oregon and Washington, D.C., where his father served as a United States Congressman from 1975 to 1993.[5][6] His first appearance on television was in one of his father's campaign commercials, in which he countered claims that his father was a tax-and-spend Democrat by washing the family car to illustrate how cheap his father actually was.[1][7] AuCoin is a graduate of Georgetown Day School and Oberlin College.[1][7][8]
Career
editTelevision
editUpon arriving in New York, AuCoin landed small roles in several soap operas, including Guiding Light and The City. In the early 2000s, AuCoin appeared in episodes of The Sopranos and the first of many episodes of Law & Order.[7] His breakthrough came in 2014, when he landed recurring roles in Netflix's House of Cards, The Americans, and, most importantly, as the rabidly loyal - and notoriously cheap - cult favorite, "Dollar" Bill Stearn, on the Showtime series Billions.[1][9] He has also appeared in other television series, such as The Bold Type, in which he played Jane Sloan's father during the show's final season, Madam Secretary, the NBC miniseries The Slap, Unforgettable, Person of Interest, Forever, The Following, Elementary, The Good Wife, White Collar, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, among others. He played the regular recurring role of Peter Keatch in the CBS series Waterfront, which was canceled before ever airing, despite having shot five episodes.[10]
He appeared in 2024 in an episode of Law & Order.
For the 2012 presidential election, NPR's Planet Money team cast AuCoin as their "Fake Presidential Candidate" to give voice to "major economic policies they could all stand behind."[11]
Film
editHis first major film role came in 2007, where he played State Department official Ellis Leach in The Kingdom. In 2009's Julie & Julia, AuCoin played one of the executives for the Houghton Mifflin publishing company who declined to publish Julia Child's soon-to-be-legendary cookbook.[7] More recently he has appeared in False Positive, starring and written by Ilana Glazer, Complete Unknown, starring Rachel Weisz, Barry Levinson's The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert De Niro, Drunk Parents, starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek, and The Good House, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.
Theater
editIn 2005, AuCoin appeared as Octavius in a Broadway revival of Julius Caesar, which starred Denzel Washington.[12] AuCoin has appeared in numerous other Off-Broadway stage productions, including Manhattan Theatre Club's productions of Of Good Stock and Long Lost, and Signature Theatre's 2014 revival of A. R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn, directed by Lila Neugebauer, which won him, and the rest of the cast, a special Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Ensemble". Other Off Broadway productions include 2008's premiere of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column,[13] 2009's Jailbait, by Deirdre O'Connor, directed by Suzanne Agins,[14] 2010's Happy Now?, by Lucinda Coxon,[15] the 2013 premiere of Tanya Barfield's The Call, directed by Leigh Silverman in a joint production by Primary Stages and Playwrights Horizons,[16][17] He recently starred in two La Jolla Playhouse productions; J. T. Rogers' Blood And Gifts, directed by Lucie Tiberghien,[18] and Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley's world premier A Dram Of Drummhicit, directed by Christopher Ashley.[19] AuCoin was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company in the early 1990s.[1][20]
Personal life
editAuCoin is married to dancer Carolyn Hall, winner of a 2002 Bessie Award for creative work in dance performance. The couple resides in Brooklyn, New York.[1][7][21]
Filmography
edit| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | A Perfect Murder | Snarky Waiter at Met | Andrew Davis | |
| 1999 | Fare Well Miss Fortune | Ben Harrison | Mickey Faust | |
| 2003 | A Normal Life | Josh | Dewey Moss | |
| Love & Stuff | Simon | Sorrel Brae | ||
| 2005 | A Perfect Fit | Brian | Ron Brown | |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Ellis Leach | Peter Berg | |
| Serial | Peter Brown | Kevin Arbouet & Larry Strong | ||
| Ghosts of the Heartland | Wellman | Allen Blumberg | ||
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Houghton Mifflin Executive | Nora Ephron | |
| 2010 | Consent | Mister E. | Ron Brown | |
| Rocksteady | Dick Hefferd | Mustapha Khan | ||
| 2011 | The Music Never Stopped | Dr. Gilbert | Jim Kohlberg | |
| 2013 | All That I Am (originally titled Burma) |
Alan[22] | Carlos Puga | SXSW Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting[23] |
| The Word | Sean Higgins | Greg Friedle | ||
| 2016 | Benji The Dove | Jason | Kevin Arbouet | |
| Complete Unknown | Dave | Joshua Marston | ||
| 2017 | The Post | AAG Kevin Moroney | Steven Spielberg | |
| 2019 | Drunk Parents | Tyler Rector | Fred Wolf | |
| 2021 | False Positive | Dirk | John Lee | |
| The Good House | Brian McAllister | Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky | ||
| 2022 | Unworthy | Warren | Adam Bernstein | Short |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | Hugh Cavanaugh | Alexander Payne |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | The City | Mark | Episode: "Episode dated 11 November 1996" |
| Guiding Light | Doug | Episode: "#1.12642" | |
| 1998 | Law & Order | First Assistant | Episode: "Tabloid" |
| 2000 | Law & Order | Pat Callister | Episode: "Mega" |
| 2001 | Law & Order | Rich Porter | Episode: "Who Let the Dogs Out?" |
| 2002 | New Americans | Brian | TV film |
| 2004 | The Sopranos | Agent Jim Ashe | Episode: "Rat Pack" |
| Third Watch | Jeff Weaver | Episode: "More Monsters" | |
| 2006 | Law & Order | Andrew Semel | Episode: "Family Friend" |
| Good God | Managing-Archangel Michael | Miniseries | |
| Waterfront | Peter Keatch | Recurring Canceled before airing | |
| 2008 | Without a Trace | Nick Selat | Episode: "22 x 42" |
| 2009 | Kings | Serviceman Lawrence | Episode: "Pilgrimage" |
| The Good Wife | Carl Thomas | Episode: "Unprepared" | |
| 2010 | White Collar | Arthur Landry | Episode: "Hard Sell" |
| Gossip Girl | Doug Jarrett | Episode: "The Sixteen-Year-Old Virgin" | |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Dr. Shelly Springe | Episode: "The Mobster Will See You Now" | |
| 2011 | Body of Proof | Mike Walsh | Episode: "Talking Heads" |
| Untitled Jersey City Project | Ray Harrison | Series lead | |
| 2012 | Blue Bloods | Jack Cavanaugh | Episode: "Whistle Blower" |
| 2013 | Elementary | Grey Suit | Episode: "The Red Team" |
| The Following | Phil Gray | Episode: "The End is Near" | |
| 2014 | Unforgettable | Alpha Omega | Episode: "Omega Hour" |
| Person of Interest | Langdon | Episode: "A House Divided" | |
| The Actress | The Groom | Episode: "The Wedding" | |
| 2014–2018 | The Americans | Pastor Tim | Recurring |
| 2015 | House of Cards | Gary Stamper | Recurring, season 3 |
| The Slap | Tony | Miniseries | |
| Madam Secretary | Greg Taylor | Episode: "The Ninth Circle" | |
| Forever | Frank Ferrell | Episode: "Punk is Dead" | |
| 2016 | Conviction | David Porter | Episode: "The 1% Solution" |
| The Blacklist | Benjamin Stalder | Recurring, season 3 | |
| 2016–2023 | Billions | "Dollar" Bill Stearn | Series regular, 69 episodes |
| 2017 | Turn: Washington's Spies | Hercules Mulligan | Recurring, season 4 |
| The Wizard of Lies | FBI Agent Ted Cacioppi | HBO film | |
| 2020–2021 | The Bold Type | Warren Sloan | Recurring |
| 2022 | The Girl from Plainville | Scott Gordon | Recurring |
| WeCrashed | Scott Galloway | Recurring | |
| The Endgame | Reed Doblin | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| New Amsterdam | Superintendent Davis | Episode: "Truth Be Told" | |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Father Colin Regis | Episode: "Confess Your Sins to Be Free" | |
| Super Pumped | Jeff Bezos | Cameo (uncredited) | |
| 2024 | Elsbeth | Declan Armstrong | 2 episodes |
| Law & Order | Alan Wallace | Episode: "In Harm’s Way" | |
| Clipped | Andy Roeser | Series regular |
References
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- ^ "SXSW 2013". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Interview: Gaby Hoffmann On All That I Am, Girls, Veronica Mars & More". Shockya. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Drama Desk Nominations Announced; Hamilton Tops the List - Playbill.com". www.playbill.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-26.
- ^ Swisher, Larry (July 4, 2003). "After false starts, AuCoin carves out rich life after Congress". The Daily Astorian.
- ^ "Up Close: Radiance Star Kelly AuCoin". LAByrinth Theater Company. November 28, 2012. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Kelly AuCoin biography". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ "Actors" (PDF). Georgetown Day School. Summer 2001. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
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- ^ "Why was Waterfront really axed?". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Planet Money's Fake Presidential Candidate". NPR. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- ^ Brantley, Ben (April 4, 2005). "A Big-Name Brutus in a Caldron of Chaos". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
- ^ Hampton, Wilborn (March 28, 2008). "Who Does This Playwright Think He Is? Hemingway?". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
- ^ Zinoman, Jason (March 26, 2009). "Flirting With Trouble as a Rite of Passage". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio (December 9, 2009). "Primary Stages Sets Cast and Creatives for Off-Broadway's Happy Now?". Playbill. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2009.
- ^ "Kerry Butler, Kelly AuCoin, Eisa Davis to Star in Off-Broadway's The Call, About Adoption, Race and Parenthood". Playbill. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "The Call". Playwrights Horizons. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
- ^ McNulty, Charles (June 20, 2012). "Afghanistan under fire in J. T. Rogers' 'Blood and Gifts'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ^ McNulty, Charles (May 23, 2011). "Previous | Culture Monster Home – Theater review: A Dram of Drummhicit at La Jolla Playhouse". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
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- ^ "List of Bessie Award winners" (PDF). Danspaceproject.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 19, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
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- ^ "SXSW: 'Short Term 12,' 'William and the Windmill' Win Jury Prizes". Variety. March 12, 2013.
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