SIMONE

ELIAS KOTEAS, who reteamed with SIMONE Writer/Director/Producer Andrew Niccol after Gattaca, was nominated twice for a Genie (Canada's Academy Award) for best actor in Roger Cardinal's Malarek and Atom Egoyan's Exotica.

But it was the Montreal native's breakthrough performance as Vaughan, the mad scientist with a sexual fetish for car crashes in David Cronenberg's controversial Crash that catapulted his career. Although he was an established and popular actor in Canada, his breakthrough performance in the U.S. was his role as vigilante Casey Jones in New Line Cinema's blockbuster franchise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

He was most recently seen in the films Collateral Damage, Harrison's Flowers and Novocaine and will soon appear in the upcoming Ararat.

His film credits include: Lost Souls, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Divorce: A Contemporary Western, The Thin Red Line, Living Out Loud, Apt Pupil, Fallen, Hit Me, Camilla, Power of Attorney, Chain of Desire, The Adjuster, Almost an Angel, Look Who's Talking Too, Desperate Hours, Blood Red, Full Moon in Blue Water, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Some Kind of Wonderful, Gardens of Stone, One Magic Christmas and Friends, Lovers & Lunatics.

His television credits include: HBO's "Sopranos," telefilms "Shot in the Heart" and "Sugartime" and TNT's "The Habitation of Dragons."

His theatre credits include: "True West" on Broadway, "Rainbow" at the Actor's Studio, "Terry Neal's Future" at EST Marathon, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" at Yale Repertory Theatre and "Death of A Salesman" at The Studio Theatre.

A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he is also a member of the Actor's Studio.