Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1225
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kim Coates represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Kim is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kim Coates appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kim. Solo Mio is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Wadlow, Jay Baruchel, Paul W. S. Anderson and others, Kim Coates helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Solo Mio (2026) as Julian · Black Hawk Down (2001) as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin · Pearl Harbor (2001) as Jack Richards
Career snapshot
Ranked #1225 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Solo Mio
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Solo Mio
Most frequent director
Michael Bay
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Michael Bay
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Waterworld, Bad Boys, Innocent Blood — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Waterworld, Bad Boys, Innocent Blood.
Most productive era
2000s
8 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.01 film | — | — |
| Action | 6.64 films | 5.96 films | 5.92 films | — |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | 6.43 films | — | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | — | 5.82 films | 7.51 film |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 6.32 films | — | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — | — | 7.51 film |
| Horror | 6.21 film | 5.82 films | 6.11 film | 5.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chet.
Highest rated performance
2001Black Hawk Down
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2026Solo Mio
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Julian.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
18 of 18 films
as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Jack Richards
Directed by Michael Bay
as White Carjacker (uncredited)
Directed by Michael Bay
as Officer Thomas Gucci
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Julian
Solo Mio (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Julian gives Kim Coates a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Performance score7.3
Black Hawk Down asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jack Richards
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Performance score6.9
Pearl Harbor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jack Richards is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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White Carjacker (uncredited)
Bad Boys (1995)
Performance score6.9
Bad Boys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. White Carjacker (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Julian
Start here. Solo Mio is the clearest statement of what Kim Coates does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kim at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Bad Boys (1995)
Keeps the comedy register of Solo Mio but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Keeps the action register of Bad Boys but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Keeps the war register of Black Hawk Down but asks for a colder reading of it.
Silent Hill (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Pearl Harbor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Bay
Director
3 films together
Notably Pearl Harbor
Jeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together
Notably Fantasy Island
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Boy Scout
John Landis
Director
1 film together
Notably Innocent Blood
Kevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together
Notably Waterworld
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Hawk Down
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil: Afterlife
Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together
Notably Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Bay
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pearl HarborJeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fantasy IslandRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Hawk DownTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Boy ScoutKevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WaterworldJohn Landis
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Innocent BloodPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident Evil: AfterlifeJay Baruchel
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goon: Last of the EnforcersSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Black Hawk Down
as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Solo Mio
as Julian
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Black Hawk Down
as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Island
as Charles Whitman (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Solo Mio
as Julian
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kim Coates has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Black Hawk Down
as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bad Boys
as White Carjacker (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Innocent Blood
as Ray
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fantasy Island
as Devil Face
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Black Hawk Down
as MSG Tim 'Griz' Martin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Resident Evil: Afterlife
as Bennett
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Innocent Blood
as Ray
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bad Boys
as White Carjacker (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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