Elias Koteas

Koteas was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a father who worked as a mechanic for the Canadian National Railways and a homemaker mother.

While at the AADA, Koteas played Father Rangier in the school's production of "The Devils" adapted by John Whiting from the Aldous Huxley novel.

He was also Paris in "The Golden Apple" a musical by John Latouche and Jerome Moross.

Koteas is known for his film portrayal of Casey Jones in the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and for the character Thomas Daggett in the American film The Prophecy, which also starred Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel, Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer, and Eric Stoltz as Simon (with whom Koteas also appeared in Some Kind of Wonderful).