| Birth Date: | 14 February 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1990–present |
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 (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]
AuCoin 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]
Upon 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]
His 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.
In 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]
AuCoin 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]
| 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" | |
| 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 | 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" | |
| 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 | |
| Year | Title | Playwright | Role | Director | Venue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | The Subject Was Roses | Frank D. Gilroy | Timmy | Alan Nause | Artists Repertory Theatre | |
| A Lie of the Mind | Sam Shepard | Frankie | Alana Lipp | Storefront Theater | ||
| 1991 | Coyote Ugly | Lynn Seifert | Dowd | Alana Lipp | Firehouse Theater | |
| 1992 | The Fire Raisers | Max Frisch | Fireman #3 | Barbara Damashek | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | |
| 1993 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Lysander | Cynthia White | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | |
| The White Devil | John Webster | Lodovico | Jerry Turner | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | ||
| 1994 | The Destiny of Me | Larry Kramer | Benjamin Weeks | Shashin Desai | International City Theatre | |
| 1995 | Henry IV, Part 2 | William Shakespeare | Prince Hal | John Sipes | Illinois Shakespeare Festival | |
| Cymbeline | William Shakespeare | Iachimo | Cal MacLean | Illinois Shakespeare Festival | ||
| 1996 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Romeo | Tim Gregory | Texas Shakespeare Festival | |
| The School for Wives | Molière | Horace | Paul Gaffney | Texas Shakespeare Festival | ||
| 1776 | Sherman Edwards Peter Stone | Charles Thomson | Kathy Barber | Texas Shakespeare Festival | ||
| 1997 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Orsino | Kathy Barber | Texas Shakespeare Festival | |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare | Dauphin | Eve Adamson | Texas Shakespeare Festival | ||
| 1998 | Arcadia | Tom Stoppard | Septimus Hodge | George Black | Virginia Repertory Theatre | |
| 1999 | Quills | Doug Wright | Abbé de Coulmier | Lou Tryell | Florida Stage | Carbonell Award for Best Production of a Play[24] |
| 2000 | Born Yesterday | Garson Kanin | Paul Verall | Robert Moss | Syracuse Stage | |
| Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Astrov | Robert Rechnitz | Two River Theater | ||
| 2001 | The Right Way to Sue | Ellen Melaver | Tom | Anne Kaufman | New Georges | |
| 2001–2002 | Copenhagen | Michael Frayn | Werner Heisenberg | Michael Blakemore | National Tour | |
| 2003 | Worm Day | Matthew Calhoun | Mick | Tom Herman | DR2 Theatre | |
| 2004 | Boy | Julia Jordan | Mick | Joe Calarco | Primary Stages | |
| Melissa Arctic | Craig Wright | Paul | Aaron Posner | Folger Theatre | ||
| 2005 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Octavius Caesar | Daniel J. Sullivan | Belasco Theatre | |
| The Sketch Comedian | Elizabeth Meriwether | The Sketch Comedian | Alex Timbers | Drama League DirectorFest | ||
| The Ladies of the Corridor | Dorothy Parker | Paul | Dan Wackerman | Peccadillo Theatre Company | ||
| 2006 | The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard | Henry | Robert Moss | Syracuse Stage | |
| 2007 | Some Men | Terrence McNally | Bernie | Trip Cullman | Second Stage Theatre | |
| 2008 | Finks | Joe Gilford | Bobby Gerard | Charlie Stratton | New York Stage and Film | |
| The Fifth Column | Ernest Hemingway | Philip Rawlings | Jonathan Bank | Mint Theater Company | ||
| Happy Now? | Lucinda Coxon | Johnny | Liz Diamond | Yale Repertory Theatre | ||
| 2009 | Jailbait | Deirdre O'Connor | Robert | Suzanne Agins | Cherry Lane Theatre | |
| 2010 | Happy Now? | Lucinda Coxon | Johnny | Liz Diamond | Primary Stages | Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play[25] |
| 2011 | A Dram of Drummhicit | Arthur Kopit Anton Dudley | Mackenzie Stewart | Christopher Ashley | La Jolla Playhouse | |
| 2012 | Blood and Gifts | J. T. Rogers | Jim Warnock | Lucie Tiberghien | La Jolla Playhouse | |
| Radiance | Cusi Cram | Artie Laurence | Suzanne Agins | LAByrinth Theater Company | ||
| 2013 | The Call | Tanya Barfield | Peter | Leigh Silverman | Playwrights Horizons | |
| 2014 | The Wayside Motor Inn | A. R. Gurney | Andy | Lila Neugebauer | Signature Theatre Company | Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director |
| 2015 | Of Good Stock | Melissa Ross | Fred | Lynne Meadow | Manhattan Theatre Club | |
| 2018 | Radio Island | Liza Birkenmeier | Sheriff & Oil Man | Jaki Bradley | New York Stage and Film | |
| 2019 | The 24 Hour Plays Broadway | Jesse Eisenberg | Clarence/Clearance | Carolyn Cantor | Laura Pels Theater | |
| Long Lost | Donald Margulies | David | Daniel Sullivan | Manhattan Theatre Club | ||