Sons of Anarchy star in town

Canadian-American actor Kim Coates has been spotted cruising the streets of Kelowna recently.

Coates' film career began in 1991 with The Last Boy Scout. Two Warner Brothers' hits followed: Innocent Blood and The Client. Since that time he has starred in over forty films, including Academy Award winners Black Hawk Down directed by Ridley Scott, and Pearl Harbor directed by Michael Bay.

Coates has also worked on Broadway starring as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. You may know him best from his role as Alexander "Tig" Trager in the FX series Sons of Anarchy and as Declan Gardiner in the Citytv series Bad Blood.

Coates was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Frederick "Fred" and Joyce Coates.

This video shows Coates walking with an elderly woman, believed to be his mother on Lawrence Avenue on Monday, April 15th.

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